[Joe 6-pack]

Perhaps we should begin with a list of recommended authors:

Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Dietrich Bonhoffer
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Betty Jane]

Unintended Consequences, by John Ross

[sport]

These are the times that try men’s souls!”

We have went from, “Give me liberty or give me death!”

To make me feel secure and give me a welfare check!

There is no comparison between the mindset from then to now.

[DesertRhino]

Carlos Hathcock

[MSF BU]

All excellent choices. This one would be especially appropriate: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/thomas-sowell/the-vision-of-the-anointed/9780465089956/