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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Take this how you will, I think it applies to both sides
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
— George Washington in his farewell address, Sept. 17, 1796
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And that becomes possible by parties transforming our system of government from a Constitutional Republic to an administrative state.
So very, very much, if not all, of the discussions on this political forum are about, not restricting the federal government to its constitutional limitations, but about how the federal government can solve our "problems" by asserting powers not given to it in our Constitution.
We have been led to this administrative form of government by Progressives in both parties, but mostly led by the Democrat Party.
So now, late into the transformation, Progressives are afraid that Trump will somehow be the tyrant that Washington warned us of.
That is not funny, but it is laughable. The Progressives have been tyrannically destroying and transforming our system of government for a century. Anyone who is honest and objective should be able to see that we are on the brink of the Progressive dream of making the Constitution totally irrelevant.
And most Americans have unconsciously come to accept that our government, as it is, is how it's supposed to be.
Fear of Trump is a fear of the very thing that Progressivism has created.
Ironically, Trump actually, so far, is more constitutionally oriented than the Progressives.