Founding Ideas of Our American Government
Founding Ideas of Our American Government
Maybe these words won’t be so well liked, as a tradition of approving something that may be wrong gives it the fake appearance of being right.
Most people beyond doubt think that society or economy and government are the same. In fact, they are fundamentally opposites. economy is produced by our desires, and government by wickedness. economy promotes our happiness by uniting our desires, and government negatively influences it by restraining our vices. One is a patron and the other a punisher.
Economy in any state is a blessing, however, even in its best state government is but a essential evil. In its worst state an intolerable one. When we suffer the same things from our government that we might suffer in a state without government the misery is far worsened because we are required to provide the means (money) that funds such and pain causing government. We’re paying for a disservice.
But because we cannot all abide by our conscience to God, we find it essential to give up part of our wealth as a means to protect the rest. It becomes the least of two evils. Whatever the form of government, the purpose is to get the most relaxation for the least cost.
What is essential for a government is that the governors do not form an interest that is separate from the people that they govern over. This is the principle evil of government: that a governing individual will have selfish interest and be Whatever less than noble, hence the infer dukes and lords referred to themselves as nobles.
So the convention of a republic has only made the government more subtle in there pursuance of these selfish interests, not more just.
“Oppression is rarely a means to get wealth, but it is often the consequence.” – Thomas Paine
The only way to root out these conflicting interest is to expose the actions of every governing person. Unfortunately the media is more concerned with exposing the selfish actions of business leaders, than they are of political ones.
The game of gaining power in a republic like the United States come to be a game of deception: to appear noble, yet to satisfy selfish lusts. Any history book will show you this tasteless game.
