A mandate is merely a dictate. Thus, if we are dictated to, do we then live under a Dictatorship?
If our freedom of choice is taken from us by the dictates of a hostile Federal government, then what Liberty do we have left?
“A mandate is merely a dictate. Thus, if we are dictated to, do we then live under a Dictatorship?”
“If our freedom of choice is taken from us by the dictates of a hostile Federal government, then what Liberty do we have left?”
Why, the liberty to continue breathing, citizen!
As Plato and many others observed, a dictatorship resolves a crumbling and chaotic democracy by subjecting it to a sort of receivership by the Dictator. The end-game of a republic, if you will.
For the public good, of course.