With due respect, you are just as clueless as Mary is today. Yes, I know the Founders wanted virtue - but their insurance policy against lack of virtue was LIMITED GOVERNMENT. Less government equals more virtue - and any body can figure that out. Meanwhile, how the hell are we supposed to figure out who is and who is not virtuous. Ed Gillespie, former head of the RNC, as a model for VIRTUE? GIMME A BREAK.
You attacked her for asking for virtue in government.
Cut the weaseling.
“Yes, I know the Founders wanted virtue - but their insurance policy against lack of virtue was LIMITED GOVERNMENT. Less government equals more virtue - and any body can figure that out.”
You refute yourself. Limited government cannot be an insurance policy against lack of virtue. Only virtuous adherence to limited government ensures limited government.
Anybody can’t figure that out—you can’t figure out that you contradict yourself.
Limited government does not exist as a thing in itself. It exists when people make choices. Limited government is not a thing that can be “insurance policy.”
Lmited government, when and where it actually takes place, IS the exercise of virtue in government.