Arthurdale as a Board Game for FDR's Players - Joseph Calandro Jr. - Mises Daily

Arthurdale as a Board Game for FDR's Players - Joseph Calandro Jr. - Mises Daily: "with very few exceptions, people always have good intentions. It is results that matter."

"It takes an outsized ego to look upon your fellow citizens and play with them as if they were lab rats. Arthurdale represented a completely new view of the purpose of government in America. No longer would the political elite merely protect the sanctity of liberty by upholding the rule of law; a new purpose had arisen — to improve their fellow citizens."

"in the year 2006, the mayor of the town of Tal Afar, Iraq, chastised the government that invaded his country — the government of FDR's heirs — by stating, 'What you are doing is an experiment, and it isn't right to experiment on people.'"