In order to allow "others" to have freedom, we must be able to trust those "others."
We cannot have freedom unless most other people are trustworthy.
John Adams, the second president of the United States, correctly said, "Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Benjamin Franklin correctly said, "Only virtuous people are capable of freedom."
My point is that there are many people in our country who will take us away from a country of freedom from government oppression to a place we don't want to be, a place of government oppression and perhaps Sharia Law.
Many people, while wanting to tax and control big industry and increase taxes on the "rich," fail to realize that their savior Big Government is the biggest monopoly and the biggest controller of their lives.
The government is the only entity in our world that can legally use force against our freedom.
The bigger the government gets, the less freedom we have.
Republican leaders have for years promised conservative, smaller government and have repeatedly not delivered it. I believe they really are mostly in favor of continually increasing government just like Democrats.
Government is a tool for politicians to control the world, and they like control.
Now the Congressional Republicans have only two months to possibly make some of President Trump's best executive orders into law and save our nation.
I fear they won't.
So people who do not like the idea of a "good" or "great" America are going to be in charge of our Congress, and will use any methods they can to make our government a socialist failure, unless the "sane" Democrats (I'm sure there are many "sane" Democrats) will somehow see the difference between good and bad and act for what is good for the American people.
The newly-in-charge radical Democrats will not be able to take from the rich and give to the poor like Robin Hood, although that is what they promised.
They will take from everyone by over-controlling and over-taxing everyone, including those who produce, and by putting more people on the dole. They will ruin our economy. All on borrowed money, thus increasing the debt.
This will be a case of trying to get something for nothing, which is impossible. And their failure will somehow be Trump's fault.
What are non-moral or non-virtuous behaviors? How about lying, cheating and stealing? And promoting behaviors that deny reality, which is a form of lying.
Also, when people who pay no income tax complain that the rich who pay taxes "don't pay their fair share." And politicians who make the government do "everything," exceeding constitutional limits. And of course people who think they can get away with anything they feel that they want to get away with, regardless of any laws or rules.
Our country cannot survive as a place of freedom unless virtuous and moral people stand up among and against the "make America bad" political leaders who may soon be in charge.
Mike Kimbrel
Oakville
