Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The entire audience LAUGHED at her speech! lol" video.

  1. Populism is how we got the welfare state. It's how being against ANY expansion of that welfare state became a death sentence for politicians who spoke truth. We voted for the politicians who promised to do MORE and expand the federal apparatus. Now, it's populism pushing back against the inroads those politicians' policies have made on liberty and prosperity. Populism is Bread and Circuses. Once the people learn they can vote themselves a living, that's just what they'll do. That's why the U.S. Constitution enshrined principles on which 2/3 of the people and states could agree on and forswore the federal government from expanding its role and scope beyond that, without a 2/3 majority. Of course, after 250 years, mere majority votes have ushered in many encroachments that are fully antithetical to the literal word and the spirit of the original constitution. So many laws that should've been struck down by the Supreme Court but were not. The Constitution lies in tatters, and that, in my estimation, is the biggest single problem. It's rarely expedient, in the short term, to abide by the shackles placed on the federal government by the U.S. Constitution. But it's always essential. Find another way. But populism demands that the state intervene, when it shouldn't. Now it's demanding that the government intervene less, but nobody really knows how to accomplish that. Too many sacred cows in too many quarters to ever dismantle the monster we built, telling us it would save us, when there's no saving any of us. We all die. In the meantime, to lead our best lives, as adults, we must stop begging the government to be our parent. It's not its role, although it's always happy to try.
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