He's really saying this on national TV, despite Harvey, despite Irma

Despite the disasters in Texas and Florida and all across the Caribbean.

Fox's Judge Napolitano (Why is he back?) says federal government has no responsibility to aid in natural disasters in even the least way

Why not?

Because then people would just be encouraged to expect "goodies" from the federal government, the constitution would go down, and we would head straight for socialism - by which he seems to mean complete, or at any rate nearly that, replacement of private ownership and control of the means of production with public.

But his reference to "goodies" reveals it's really the distributive egalitarianism typical not only of socialism but of social democracy and indeed our own capitalist progressivism that he sees as a real threat and objects to, rather than public ownership of the means of production, a ludicrous bogey for which there is no significant support in America among the classe politique or the people at large.

All the same, that's his story and he's sticking to it.

It's the story of the entire conservative movement, and has been for decades, at least, front-men that they are for the bottomless greed, unsurpassable arrogance, and shameless mendacity of the American plutocracy.

He and his like would have us believe they there is nothing to be learned from the fact that over a century of progressivism has not created a constituency for anything remotely like socialization of most or all of the economy in America.

He would have us think that more than a century of the US not plunging headlong to the bottom of that alleged but not at all real slippery slope means nothing to him and should mean nothing to us.

He is just that full of shit, and doesn't believe what he's saying any more than Ronald Reagan did when he said creation of Medicare in 1965 would result in a rapid descent to full-on Communism in America.

Still not happening.

Thank goodness.