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  • noun Plural form of statist.

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Examples

  • A common approach among modern statists is to create

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Thoughts on the Fourth of July 2005

  • A common approach among modern statists is to create a myriad of new non-rights to dilute and replace our fundamental rights as individuals.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Don’t Necesarily Treasure the Right to Vote 2005

  • But for conservatives (aka statists), that doesn't matter: no issue is too small, too big, or too private for government to tackle.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2009

  • Whereas other attempts to make a libertarian case, both before and after this book, might typically call for transitional or half measures, or be willing to concede as much as possible to statists, that is not what we get from Murray.

    LewRockwell.com 2009

  • 'statists' - people who think the individual's life is the State's to dispose of.

    GayPatriot 2009

  • I use the term "statists" rather than liberal or conservative because, as I noted above, it isn't a right or left issue.

    Would the Break-up of the Union be a BAD Thing? 2009

  • By repute, these "statists" yearn for the days when Russia was a great power.

    Take Down 2007

  • It's always the freemarket Capitalists fault, never the "statists" (read = Marxist Socialists) though they readily admit that in spite of their different aims, their short term agendas dovetail quite nicely as Sarah Glynn admits:

    TUNDRA TABLOIDS....... KGS 2010

  • Do you think the SEC was dreamed up by "statists" who were "agitating for more control"?

    unknown title 2009

  • The globalists conceal the economic treason that is committed by politicians in Washington by ridiculing those who think that sending jobs to China and importing cheap, foreign labor may not be the best way to go about things as "statists," "isolationists," and

    The Voice 2009

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