Well, go ahead and call me "naive" ... like the Founders who wrote the document were.Yep, the gimme's and the warmongers have turned us into a welfare/warfare police state.
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The problem is that both sides want to bypass the Constitution for what they want from Government, but then the think they can still use the Constitution to block the other side from getting what they want. Every time they both subvert it, they weaken it.
The Founders were right, government sucks, none more so than the Federal government. We are all best served when the Constitution is strong, the Federal Government is weak and then we are free to pursue those things most important to us.
Seeing as how the "federal govt" is a thousand different things, it's naive to say we are all best served when the federal govt is weak. The federal govt includes the military, the DEA, ICE, CBP, the FBI, the VA, et al who I would not ever want to see be weak.
Other than the DEA, which is a cancer on a free country, I like how when liberals are questioned, you go to basic functions of government that even most libertarians support.
Well, you want roads don't you? That means we have government which justifies a massive, socialist welfare State! Bam.
So seriously, having a basic government with roads, military and law enforcement isn't conceivable? You can't see any middle ground between no government and a socialist welfare state that steals trillions from it's citizens and gives it to people who didn't earn it to buy power? If I want roads, I get an authoritarian government?
What I like is when liberals then call "Republicans" black and white and unable to distinguish gray...