Notable Quote - Kevin Williamson - Granite Grok

Notable Quote – Kevin Williamson

The founding ideal of this republic is that we are the who and government is the whom, a necessary evil that is to some degree necessarily evil. On the right scale and in its proper place, that necessary evil is bearable. But when it oversteps, we are under no obligation to bear it — in fact, we are morally obliged by our particular American patrimony to resist. That is why the usual progressive taunt, “If you don’t like it, why don’t you move to Somalia?” is foolish and shallow: The American government exists at our sufferance — we do not exist at its sufferance. George W. Bush was mocked for talking about an “ownership society,” but if you want peace, that’s precisely what you should be trying to build. The alternative is to have 50 percent + 1 arbitrating the uncomfortable question of who in effect owns whom.

You want a less polarized politics? Consider that the God of the Old Testament asked only for 10 percent, and had Ten Commandments, not ten thousand.

Kevin Williamson, writer and speaker

Indeed – the reason why everything is polarized is that there is so much money and so much control now at stake.  If we were to shrink government back to its original role (as opposed to the total expansion that Progressives want), politics would almost cease to exist (relative to day’s environment).  Heck, that would put us out of business here at GraniteGrok.  Know something?  I’d be OK with that

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