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RE: A Legacy of Fear - Selling your soul wasn't even as evil as it could get...
You see we should be letting the government fail, and not be able to pay for things. Then perhaps they'd be serious about cuts rather than doing what they actually do
This assumes that the garbage of our political class are interested in our interests, instead of their own kickback and/or ideology ;>
Oh I know THEY are not. Yet they prey upon the fear in the populace until the masses are shouting for them to kick the can down the road. "But, you told me to do it!"
This is what Constitutional rule of law was supposed to mitigate; but it presupposed a moral people as a base.
The Founders were realistically cynical, but they vastly underestimated the number of rent-seekers, do-gooders, and "sheeple" (a word I dislike using) a free society might produce. I think they also underestimated the roles of conformity and security play in a free man's political decision-making