Re: that's NOT totalitarianism

Although I realize that their jobs are indeed ultimately unnecessary for a functioning society, I really just wanted to make a Terminator reference.

Yeah, I caught that ;-)

Unfortunately it is not so simple, as public teachers and postal workers are enriched by a glorified protection racket and very often will collaborate with the same pigs who, without hesitation, throw people into prison for possessing the "wrong" images. Consider, for example, the obscenity and child pornography prosecutions that started with testimony by postal workers.

Please, as if postal workers had some special disdain for child porn and everyone else was totally cool with it until they came along and offered their devastating testimony? This is such a bizarre reason to single out postal service workers.

As for public teachers, although they are supposedly objective, they effectively indoctrinate children in the ideology of the State.

I hardly think blind statism is such a problem in this country with anti-government sentiment so strong on the right.

At the other end of the spectrum, there are no shortage of people on the left who have a negative view of how our country has exerted its influence in the world throughout history. So if there's an attempt to "indoctrinate children in the ideology of the State," I'm not so sure it's working.

I disagree with the rest of your post as well, but I think it's all been covered at some point somewhere.