Today is Patriots' Day. Not to be confused with Blowback Day on September 11.
Today should be a reminder of why government is your enemy. The Ancestral Enemy. Why routing one government to install another government is a foolish waste of lives and will not turn out well.
Use the occasion to give government all the respect it deserves.
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Thank you for reading.
Thank you for reading.
History has clearly shown that humanity has generally grasped the ‘casting off the old enemy’ part well enough while they remain oblivious to the subsequent ‘don’t set up and authorize the new one’ part of the equation. I am regretfully doubtful that they will ever avoid the later mistake before one of its future iterations (if not the current one) destroys them permanently.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem likely. Discussing the matter with "normal" people makes it seem even more likely.
DeleteThe limited government experiment held up for a while, but was destroyed by slavery.
ReplyDeleteViolating natural human rights will do that to a plan.
DeleteBut, Washington had already caused it to fail when he crushed the Whiskey Rebellion. That was a refutation of the whole "limited government" lie. Government will never allow itself to be limited when those limits get in the way of something it really wants.
A thing about the Whiskey Rebellion. George Washington, to his credit, pardoned the leaders of it. And the Whiskey Excise Tax was repealed by Thomas Jefferson.
DeleteIt was still the end of the "limited government" experiment.
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