Indeed, whatever little ideas many of them had within their little heads, they cower in terror now that they might actually be called to ACT upon them and make a commitment to govern based upon same.
I for one would prefer a commitment not to govern but to begin
in earnest---not little chippings away that really amount to just reducing the last president's overreaches and a little regulatory window-dressing of shavings---the actual, real reduction of the State. (What we have now is not and has not been for an extremely long time a properly-construed government.) The problem is not whether a party "governs"; the problem is that
a) We
remain governed to a fare-thee-well, and that neither this White House nor this Congress---each purporting to be of the party that purports to be the party of smaller government (but has done nothing in the past eighteen years to suggest it's more than a propagation on its part)---has acted in any way, shape, or form on behalf of
un-governing us above and beyond the aforesaid chippings away; and,
b) For better or worse, a few too many Americans
prefer to be governed to a fare-thee-well.
I don't want to hear about who is or isn't ready to "govern."
Until or unless one American would obstruct or abrogate another American's equivalent rights, the American people do
not need to be "governed." They---
all of us---need to be
left the hell alone.
