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GOVERNMENT

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Government, in theory, is supposed to serve those it governs, yet it ALWAYS, if left unchecked, ends up becoming the master of those it was created to serve.

Government rarely begins in a full-blown tyranny; the tyranny creeps up incrementally; like a predator stalking its prey. It gives the people time to become accustomed to being governed before it takes its first steps towards tyranny; responding to crises; either real or imagined, to increase its powers.

It then sits back and watches; to see if what it has done has arisen the suspicions of the governed. If it has, then it patiently waits and tries again later. If it hasn’t, then it repeats the process; growing ever bigger, ever stronger, until the time arrives that its power cannot be resisted without a full-blown revolution.

One of the greatest threats to tyranny is the individual, and the absolute greatest threat to tyrants is a society filled with free-thinking individuals.
A free-thinking individual is one who takes the information presented to them, and then examines it to see if it conforms to reality; to fact. An indoctrinated individual takes that information, and accepts it as truth without question.

America is filled with the latter; people who are so thoroughly programmed they will react negatively in response to anyone who threatens what they have been programmed to believe; their minds are simply not capable of dealing with facts; with the truth.

The best government, if there is such a thing, is one whose powers are narrowly limited to a few specific functions; functions that serve to defend and protect every member of society equally; such as providing for the defense of the nation.

The moment you introduce the idea that the powers of government can be used to benefit one class, or one group, of people, then the people will divide themselves into factions (political parties) who seek to use the power of government to benefit themselves; before the other factions can gain control of the system to benefit themselves.

Lysander Spooner spoke of this in 1870, stating, “…it is to be considered that, without his consent having even been asked a man finds himself environed by a government that he cannot resist; a government that forces him to pay money, render service, and forego the exercise of many of his natural rights, under peril of weighty punishments. He sees, too, that other men practice this tyranny over him by the use of the ballot. He sees further, that, if he will but use the ballot himself, he has some chance of relieving himself from this tyranny of others, by subjecting them to his own. In short, he finds himself, without his consent, so situated that, if he use the ballot, he may become a master; if he does not use it, he must become a slave.”
Br'er Rabbit

“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries
BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.”
Thomas Paine