Posted on 01/29/2022 4:11:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
The leader of Canada is saying over a million citizens are a fringe minority.
Benjamin Franklin had this to say about the American Constitution:
This is likely to be well administered for a number of years and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
What did he mean when he said, “need despotic government, being incapable of any other?” Dependence on government and all its “free stuff” has superseded the ability of people to take care of themselves. Without the benevolent largesse of government, the people cannot survive.
This could be said of any government anywhere. Canada, our ally and friend to the north, knowingly or not, is engaged in a reckoning. Have the people become so corrupted as to need despotic government being incapable of any other, or not?
One side, the Freedom Convoy, is saying they are capable of taking care of themselves. They don’t need government micromanagement. More importantly, they are reminding themselves and their government, that government governs only with and by the consent of the people.
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OMG!
LOL. I had a similar thought. Joe Biden rules, but without the consent of the governed.
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