The “Founding Fathers” would see today’s Federal Government as a threat.
I’m not against governing but I don’t call what they do in Washington “governing”. What they do in Washington is a crime and sadly both parties participate though the GOP is slightly less bold. A good example is the sequester. Even though it resulted in a very small cut in spending for the first time in decades both Democrats and even many Republicans were beside themselves at this even though it resulted in no appreciable degree of spending reduction. Even defense spending was still higher in real dollars than when both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were going full steam under GW Bush yet from some GOP they were behaving like the military was being gutted. They used percentages of total spending to drive their false narrative and of course too many conservatives bought it. Governing does not equate to increased spending and increased bureaucracy. We have need for neither and haven’t for a long time.
DailyKos, convincing liberals that they are victims for 20 years.
Kos should write about what they know about: white liberal elite 27 year olds...
Because it’s true.
Ironic, coming from a leftist rag that has its own agenda, maybe they ought do a little research as to where the real wolves in sheeps clothing live and ‘party’ today.
Reagan wasn’t the first to ‘imply’ that.
It was one of the primary reasons our founding fathers wrote the Constitution they way they did.
No, no, got it wrong Daily Kos,
It’s Democrats that are un-American, and we’ll take care of that following CW-II, which you all are doing an excellent job of starting.
“That government is best that governs least.” —Attributable to Henry David Thoreau
What a sad shame that leftists have convinced anyone that the government of the U.S. is a democracy. Nowhere in the constitution can you find the words democracy or democratic. You will, however find the word republican. Miseducation is a cornerstone of leftism.
Our government IS a threat. ALL GOVERNMENTS are a threat. That’s why they must be controlled by the people—and kept small enough for the people to control.
Well, at this point, the historic evidence is in: the New Deal and Great Society are largely fiscally unsustainable failures, and the results of the leap to the left our national culture took since the 1960s has left us with an open sewer. Reagan was simply the only president to react properly.
The Daily Kooks...makes the NY Slimes and the Washington Compost look sensible...
Why, it's dwindling away to nothing, isn't it? What a state of dog-eat-dog anarchy we live in.
“Democratic Government” is Un-American. America is a Republic, so “Republican Government” is American.
Karl Marx said that democracy is the first step towards communism.
The author seems to have a want for a history lesson. Americans have never trusted government, not sense even before the American Revolution.
Our founders and almost every generation since with a few notable exceptions were filled with distrust for the inevitable dysfunction, corruption, and disaster that is big Government.