28 Aug 2022 9:44 am
Only a corrupt and out of touch government would expect the citizenry to allow it to destroy our society and culture.
Keeping faith with others is basic to civilization. A government filled with suspicion does not earn the goodwill and affection of its people. Rather, it becomes an enemy in their eyes. The people’s disaffection increases the leader’s own mistrust. And so it goes, around and around, mistrust deepening at every turn of the circuit.
A good example is taxation. The American income tax system has depended to a large degree on the willingness of people to fund their own government.
https://spectator.org/this-is-how-gover ... -mistrust/
Keeping faith with others is basic to civilization. A government filled with suspicion does not earn the goodwill and affection of its people. Rather, it becomes an enemy in their eyes. The people’s disaffection increases the leader’s own mistrust. And so it goes, around and around, mistrust deepening at every turn of the circuit.
A good example is taxation. The American income tax system has depended to a large degree on the willingness of people to fund their own government.
https://spectator.org/this-is-how-gover ... -mistrust/