Improving DC: Gov Can’t Get More Efficient – So Make It MUCH Smaller
Human nature – is human nature. It is immutable.
There are things we do well – and things we don’t.
The nation’s Founding Fathers knew this – and wrote their Constitution accordingly.
Which is why a federal government that remains within the Constitution’s confines – is so incredibly small.
The Founders knew giving humans power – and the power to lord it over other humans – was a TERRIBLE idea. So they severely limited the government they created.
The Founders knew the humans drawn to lord government power over others – were imbued with a toxic combination of some of the worst of human characteristics. So the Founders severely limited their opportunities to do so.
“Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? . . . And just tell me where in the world you find these angels who are going to organize society for us.”