"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Stop Putting So Much Faith (and Fear) in Presidents
Would America not be a better place if people more often looked inward instead of putting their hopes and fears in some distant leader? Would we not be better people if we did so?
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From a state that started as a secular republic, the U.S. gov has morphed into an elected-tyrant form of democracy, a variant of old fashioned mob rule. Lefts and rights are fine with fascism as long as it's THEIR preferred fascist tyrant at the top running it.
"Faith" is indeed the correct word. Government is faith-based (backed by firearms). Once a critical number of folks (perhaps recent Trump and former Ron Paul voters for starters) come to grasp that, popular support organized religion and for government will collapse.
The ideal of "Separation-of-Church-and-State" is/was a pipe dream. They are inseparable, because both are mindless abstractions engendered in the brains of "the governed". They are two incestuously-entwined ideals. Sam