“They do not understand the importance of keeping govenment small....”
They most certainly do.....and they recognize they “get more free stuff” with big government than small government.
But Americans in the past understood the price of all this "free stuff"--which, of course, is far from free.
Half the U.S. electorate today does not understand the heavy, heavy price.
Slavers used to rationalize slavery with the excuse that "they are fed, clothed, have all their needs provided"--and they probably still do in the parts of the world in which slavery exists today. What they ignored is the value of liberty. It's worth fighting and dying for. Our forefathers proved this--by fighting and dying for it.
Today--half of the American people do not understand the relative value of freedom and slavery.
This is probably the essence of decadence. Many who have always known plenty--including liberty--lack the wit to comprehend what it would be like not to have all that they're accustomed to and the price paid by those who provided them with all this plenty.
On the other hand, many who have known only plenty are well aware of its value and its cost and are determined to respect them and advise the witless of their folly. That's what you and I are doing now, but the eyes of the witless are willfully blind, and their ears are willfully deaf, and our task is a hard one.
But Americans in the past understood the price of all this "free stuff"--which, of course, is far from free.
Half the U.S. electorate today does not understand the heavy, heavy price.
Slavers used to rationalize slavery with the excuse that "they are fed, clothed, have all their needs provided"--and they probably still do in the parts of the world in which slavery exists today. What they ignored is the value of liberty. It's worth fighting and dying for. Our forefathers proved this--by fighting and dying for it.
Today--half of the American people do not understand the relative value of freedom and slavery.
This is probably the essence of decadence. Many who have always known plenty--including liberty--lack the wit to comprehend what it would be like not to have all that they're accustomed to and the price paid by those who provided them with all this plenty.
On the other hand, many who have known only plenty are well aware of its value and its cost and are determined to respect them and advise the witless of their folly. That's what you and I are doing now, but the eyes of the witless are willfully blind, and their ears are willfully deaf, and our task is a hard one.