This is not an April Fool's post. The whole point of a constitution is to prevent the government from going insane with power. But that's exactly what is happening today. The people running our country today are completely unhinged, and nobody's going to stop them before it's too late.
Look, I'm well aware that you could chart the growth of the government since the New Deal, and it's basically a straight line regardless of who's in office. Ronald Reagan, the so-called champion of limited government, tripled the national deficit. This isn't a Democrat vs. Republican thing. It's not a liberal vs. conservative thing, because conservatives run as libertarians and govern as liberals.
What it is is this: I don't want to be a government junkie. I don't think you do either. I don't want some guy in Washington to decide that my children will starve this week because he got up on the wrong side of bed. I don't want to be a puppet, though I know that everyone's got strings. Nobody's fully the master of their own destiny because in the end we're all going to die. But I see no reason why the government should get to screw with our lives in the meantime.
-James
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