Dear America, No candidate is a significant threat to your particular views. If you're a progressive...
Dear America,
No candidate is a significant threat to your particular views. If you're a progressive, Ben Carson does not threaten you. If you're a conservative, Hillary Clinton does not threaten you. If you're knowledgable about how government works, Donald Trump does not threaten you.
Politicians do not drive political movements nearly as much as political movements drive candidates. The candidates are not the problem, it's your fellow citizens who disagree with you that are the problem. And you can't change that by killing off a particular candidate. Nor can you change their mind (nor would it be moral to use the force of government to attempt to do so).
(We already have a method of dealing with this problem, built-in to our existing system: limit the scope of how much your fellow citizens can harm your interests through government. But few people seem to want to do that.)
No candidate is a significant threat to your particular views. If you're a progressive, Ben Carson does not threaten you. If you're a conservative, Hillary Clinton does not threaten you. If you're knowledgable about how government works, Donald Trump does not threaten you.
Politicians do not drive political movements nearly as much as political movements drive candidates. The candidates are not the problem, it's your fellow citizens who disagree with you that are the problem. And you can't change that by killing off a particular candidate. Nor can you change their mind (nor would it be moral to use the force of government to attempt to do so).
(We already have a method of dealing with this problem, built-in to our existing system: limit the scope of how much your fellow citizens can harm your interests through government. But few people seem to want to do that.)
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
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