Friday, October 08, 2021

Any More and We're Gonna Burst

 How much government is too much? [More]

If the power is not delegated here, it's too much.

It's significant that such questioning is coming from a graduate student.

[Via Jess]

Posted by David Codrea at 10/08/2021 12:27:00 PM

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"If the power is not delegated here, it's too much."

Your answer is good. Its the way things were supposed to work. No doubt it would work if, as one founder put it, either those running the government or those being governed were angels. But they're not.

I think the most correct answer lies in another bit of wisdom.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

"... and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government ..."

In other, shorter, words. We'll get as much government as we will put up with, and then maybe just a bit more. Then, as "all experience hath shewn", something will break.

What will happen then? I have no idea. Nobody does.

When will it happen? I don't know that answer either.

But if enough of the old Americans who can only be pushed so far and no farther still exist, and if those who insist on pushing them don't wise up and stop pushing, it will happen.

And that's a check you can take to the bank.

10/08/2021 1:11 PM

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