Good Lord, Why Do Americans Put Up With Corruption?

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Good Lord, Why Do Americans Put Up With Corruption?
Sep 06, 2017 Read More Articles by Ron Ewart

“Your individual, natural, God-given rights, are only as good as the depth of your willingness and courage to defend them.”  —Ron Ewart

Last week in our article entitled “The Distorted Window Through Which Americans Perceive Reality” we talked about the great goodness in the American people.  The American people ARE good and generous, as donations of food, clothing, money and volunteers to the Hurricane Harvey victims attest.  The outpouring of neighbor helping neighbor during this national calamity is inspiring.  And yes, local, state and the federal government are stepping up to the plate as well with leadership, equipment and money.  Nevertheless, we wonder why Americans cannot see how tyrannical government has become and how many freedoms we have lost since we drifted away from self-reliance, individual responsibility and Constitutional liberties.

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[Fishrrman]

C.S. Lewis gives us insight into the answer:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

Let me put it in a blunter way (the only "way" I know):

I prefer the corrupt politician who takes his bribes but leaves me and the rest of society alone, to the "honest" one who is determined to control my life.

[INVAR]

Good Lord, Why Do Americans Put Up With Corruption?

Was answered in our Establishing Document:

"...All experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed". Declaration of Independence.

[Bigun]

Mark.