“For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground. And tell sad stories of the death of kings…” Richard II, Act 3, Scene 2.
Being closer to the end of my journey than the beginning, I often try to imagine what the world will be like after I leave. Will the U.S. be as free or freer than it is today?
I am usually in a doubting mood when I think of the future. Since 1776, the forces of oppression and control have been fighting back against the victory won by the British colonists in North America. Slowly, inexorably, and sometimes with the best of intentions, the individual rights that those colonists bled and died for are disappearing.
For our own good, of course.
We convince ourselves we need a bigger government because we’re a bigger country. That’s true, but only to a point. If Congress and the president actually stopped to consider the consequences of growing the government instead of how many votes they were going to get for passing out more government goodies, history might have taken a slightly different trajectory.
This century has seen government goodies handed out for reasons of “justice.” “Social” justice, “environmental” justice, and “restorative” justice are three major…
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