Maybe we need to go back further in history. Rome during the Emperors. Caligula, Nero would be analogous to Clinton and Obama. Imperial Rome’s Tax and spend along with their circuses for the masses would equate to today’s welfare state and the “Knockout” “games” by the gangs in the hood.
Human nature does not change, it is chronicled in the Bible, we continue to have the seven deadly sins. They are with us today as much as they have always been during human history.
Now and again the world is fortunate and we have people like the founders come along and start something great.
Each generation MUST fight for liberty, freedom and private property rights.
Now and again the world is fortunate and we have people like the founders come along and start something great.
I’d say (and this is more semantical than substantive) that such people always exist, but only rarely are they able to rise to enough power to make a meaningful difference.
Which is to say that right now there is another Reagan somewhere in the body politic, another Solzenhitsyn confined to the gulag, another John Adams living humbly and thoughtfully on the outskirts of the fray....
Identifying such people is not so difficult; elevating them is.