Anybody expecting respect for the overall government to survive current leadership unscathed is dreaming.
As somebody who considers government little more than a dangerous weapon in the hands of competing tribes of control freaks, all I can say is: More, please.
"My father," Elliott Roosevelt said of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "May have been the originator of the concept of employing the IRS as a weapon of political retribution." Now that abuse has spread to other areas of government.
There are consequences to weaponizing law and government.
Just three years later, Americans support or vilify a growing number of government agencies depending on their partisan affiliations.
"Americans still see big government as top threat" facing the country, Gallup continues to report, year after year.
There's no reason to believe that trust will rise or fear decline when people rightfully assume that a government bureau or department in the hands of political opponents will be used to reward friends and punish enemies.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/08/21/dear-democrats-and-republicans
As somebody who considers government little more than a dangerous weapon in the hands of competing tribes of control freaks, all I can say is: More, please.
"My father," Elliott Roosevelt said of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "May have been the originator of the concept of employing the IRS as a weapon of political retribution." Now that abuse has spread to other areas of government.
There are consequences to weaponizing law and government.
Just three years later, Americans support or vilify a growing number of government agencies depending on their partisan affiliations.
"Americans still see big government as top threat" facing the country, Gallup continues to report, year after year.
There's no reason to believe that trust will rise or fear decline when people rightfully assume that a government bureau or department in the hands of political opponents will be used to reward friends and punish enemies.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/08/21/dear-democrats-and-republicans
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