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To: Crichton

I think that a big federal government is a bad thing no mattter the policies that it espouses.


41 posted on 01/20/2012 9:25:25 AM PST by Grunthor (I am a conservative, neither half of the one party represents my views.)
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To: Grunthor

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. The fact is that total government control is inherently evil. Even if you think someone is going to force people to do good, they already have a warped morality. Thus, fostering further decay inside (whited sepulchres).

Then you have to deal with the fact that because morality CANNOT be legislated (oh you can “outlaw” anything you want, but you can NEVER get people to go along with it, see “Prohibition” for further details), that the minds and hearts of the people will not improved by criminalizing every behavior you dislike (not you personally). Then eventually the shoe is on the other foot.

If you don’t like the persecution of us Christians, the solution is to put the government back into it’s place, tiny and out of the way. If you try and push the pendulum to the other side, it will always swing back. The Founders didn’t create a totalitarian Federal government. They created a tiny federal government that banded together several tiny sovereign countryies/states. Trying to have a huge federal government is ideologically the same as having a one world government. It’s simply a rung below on the totalitarian ladder.


48 posted on 01/20/2012 9:31:55 AM PST by JDW11235 (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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