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 Yes, I agree 100%. I think it’s a similar dynamic with Trump voters in this election.

He’s promising to do away with 75% of the Federal bureaucracy - the people who make arbitrary rules that hinder business development and stifle personal freedoms - which I think many of the people on this app like the idea of. 

Those types of voters seem less like statists and more like people who simply want less unelected bureaucrats ruling over them.

My point was that I don’t think people are being statists by default if they support a particular candidate. I think they’re just doing what they can within the system to help enact the change they want to see beyond the system. In my mind, this is like your running Block while funding all sorts of incredible open-source projects.