COMMENT OF THE DAY:

It is kind of ironic, the founders, whatever else they disagreed on, believed certain things to be absolute bedrock truths:

1. Government is incompetent;

2. Government is complicated;

3. Government is heartless;

4. Government is secretive; and

5. Government can't be trusted.

It seems I’ve seen this list somewhere before.

The founders also understood government is necessary, but given 1 through 5 above they realized that government must be fettered, and kept as weak and divided as possible so when evil and or incompetent people get power, the damage they can do is limited.

The harm which results from keeping the government from doing what it should, is always less than the harm which results from failing to keep the government from doing what it should not.

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