The system turns them into savages. Yelling, screaming, pushing, and striking are the norms in place of reason and politeness. The tragedy, hard as it is to believe, is that the situation gets worse by the day. Israel has a new government. It is a broad, national unity government that even includes Amir Peretz, former head of the Histadrut national labor union, which lies at the roots of Israel s economic problems.
Big government is set to become bigger.
At the very time that Israelis need to unite for their immediate survival, secondary school teachers are striking, airport employees are striking, and we can be certain that another group of disgruntled employees will strike tomorrow, the day after, the day after that, and so on. Thomas Hobbes was right in one respect. Left to themselves in the socialist jungle, a war of all against all will erupt. The people will become savages. Life will be nasty, brutish, and short.