Posted on 02/14/2014 5:52:39 PM PST by Olog-hai
What a dream. I’ve been having “political anxiety” dreams lately, too. but I never remember them for more than a second before they evaporate.
Almost exactly a hundred years ago, the federal reserve and the income tax were put into place, thus laying the foundation for leftists to utterly dismantle everything the Framers left to us.
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That is most probably true, but it still does not inspire me to embrace anarchy.
Yes, I frequently have political anxiety dreams, as well, and I usually do not remember them, but this one was so real and involved my sneaking the Eucharist to the other prisoners.
I hear you, but consider this. As long as we humans feel the need to organize ourselves by investing a minority of our fellows with power over the rest of us, there will be abuses of power and tyranny.
Even with the most perfect governing system ever devised, eventually the Tree of Liberty must be refreshed to maintain our God given rights and freedoms.
&&& That is most probably true, but it still does not inspire me to embrace anarchy.
Red, I think that what you're really embracing is fear. The fear that your fellow Americans are couldn't be trusted to make moral choices within a minimal framework of government requirement as they went about living their lives, and produce a prosperous, moral, and mostly harmonious outcome, which is certainly what happened in America in its early days, with the Founders' brilliant structure of government from Federal, State, and local.
As a limited government conservative who regards America as a fundamentally Christian nation (that's why it's slave-free), I am inspired to embrace confidence and trust in Americans.
Not too long ago I would have shared your optimism, but when I look at how many people in our country today have no moral code, no religious beliefs, I am not so confident.
PS: Regardless, I still would not follow an anarchist, which is what Proudhon was.
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