This is a social struggle similar to the one we have over retirement: half want "An All-Knowing Government to Take Care of It" (and MAKE everyone participate), and another half wants "To Be Left Alone to Do It Themselves)."
But with freedom comes responsibility, for mistakes.
Those who want (the illusion of) "no mistakes" (and realisticall…
This is a social struggle similar to the one we have over retirement: half want "An All-Knowing Government to Take Care of It" (and MAKE everyone participate), and another half wants "To Be Left Alone to Do It Themselves)."
But with freedom comes responsibility, for mistakes.
Those who want (the illusion of) "no mistakes" (and realistically only "someone to blame") ultimately are "uncomfortable" having freedom. ("No, NO! TAKE it AWAY! It's TOO HARD! MAKE ME do the right thing! And TELL ME WHAT THAT IS!")
The ultimate solution would be a peaceful partition, with these two diametrically opposed points of view agreeing to "split their inheritance" and divide the USA into two parts, with one government following the current trendy slouch towards socialism--and slavery, and the other reaffirming its attachment to the Constitution. Each should get "a coast," and half the military, and the rest can be divided according to negotiation. Conservatives should allow the ones who prefer the government-teat to choose first: in the end, they will foul their nest anyway, while their counterparts will make even deserts bloom.
It's interesting to contemplate what sorts of international treaties the two, now different and diverging, governments would make to "protect themselves" from each other's encroachment. (Prediction: after the slothful class gobbles everything in sight, it will turn enviously on its more prudent and productive neighbor.)
Come to think of it, maybe Jefferson was probably right "... that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." A rebellion to purify this government, and no talk of "fairness" with the Tories; if they want to live under socialism, they've plenty of choices. Venezuela would welcome them with open claws.
This is a social struggle similar to the one we have over retirement: half want "An All-Knowing Government to Take Care of It" (and MAKE everyone participate), and another half wants "To Be Left Alone to Do It Themselves)."
But with freedom comes responsibility, for mistakes.
Those who want (the illusion of) "no mistakes" (and realistically only "someone to blame") ultimately are "uncomfortable" having freedom. ("No, NO! TAKE it AWAY! It's TOO HARD! MAKE ME do the right thing! And TELL ME WHAT THAT IS!")
The ultimate solution would be a peaceful partition, with these two diametrically opposed points of view agreeing to "split their inheritance" and divide the USA into two parts, with one government following the current trendy slouch towards socialism--and slavery, and the other reaffirming its attachment to the Constitution. Each should get "a coast," and half the military, and the rest can be divided according to negotiation. Conservatives should allow the ones who prefer the government-teat to choose first: in the end, they will foul their nest anyway, while their counterparts will make even deserts bloom.
It's interesting to contemplate what sorts of international treaties the two, now different and diverging, governments would make to "protect themselves" from each other's encroachment. (Prediction: after the slothful class gobbles everything in sight, it will turn enviously on its more prudent and productive neighbor.)
Come to think of it, maybe Jefferson was probably right "... that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." A rebellion to purify this government, and no talk of "fairness" with the Tories; if they want to live under socialism, they've plenty of choices. Venezuela would welcome them with open claws.