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Re: Is it Coincidence the Evil Woke Chose Holy Week to Charge Trump?

By: Fiz in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
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De: " Most of the Founders were well studied in both philosophy and human history, and history is fraught with examples of government corruption and treachery."

More specifically, EVERY government has a special class of “bureaucrats” and, as far as I know, in NO case is the title of “bureaucrat” or even “government worker” an approbation. In every case, the bureaucrats accrue power and money for themselves in outsized proportion to their actual contribution.

I don't know...maybe the Founders didn't see that problem in the 13 colonies? But that seems impossible.


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Re: Is it Coincidence the Evil Woke Chose Holy Week to Charge Trump?
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 04 Apr 23 9:09 PM 		Msg. 41579 of 60008

fizzy:

Re: “Without that, only common decency, keeps government employees as bay.” I am currently reading a book about America's founders. More specifically, it is about the first four presidents.

Early on, the author makes the point that the Founders made three huge mistakes. He writes:

“Their classical knowledge ultimately steered the Founders wrong on three crucial issues:” “• Whether the new nation could subsist on ‘public virtue,’ relying on the self-restraint of those in power to act for the common good and not their personal interest” “• Their misunderstanding of partisanship, or ‘action,’ as they tended to call it, nearly wrecked the new Republic in the 1790s.” “• The acceptance of human bondage, which would prove disastrous to the nation they designed. ”

I don't agree with him that slavery "proved disastrous to the nation." But I do agree with his first point, that the Founders believed that the nation would thrive under virtuous public servitude - and what a boneheaded conclusion THAT was! They really should have known better. Most of the Founders were well studied in both philosophy and human history, and history is fraught with examples of government corruption and treachery.

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