I remember having a conversation with a local city official in Kentucky when the Kelo Supreme Court decision came down. Conservatives, myself included, were outraged that the Supreme Court had wrongly allowed using eminent domain to take private property from one private property owner and give it to another private owner.
Conservatives in my community came together with a local resolution to prevent this from happening. I’ll never forget the response from the local official, who told me: “But you know me, I would never use eminent domain that way.” I responded: “The law isn’t about you—it’s about when we get bad representatives and must have the law to restrain them.”
This is what we believe as conservatives—that the law must supersede personalities and intentions. As conservatives, we seek to bind government using the rule of law to prevent the abuse of power.
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Our Constitution was specifically designed to LIMIT --- LIMIT!! --- the power, the authority, and the reach of government.
Once some people are "in the government", they do their very best to EXPAND their power and authority.
Just like Jefferson and Madison predicted they would.
Bleeding them out is the ONLY solution to their continuing rampage against the citizens.
That would be revolution. An INEVITABLE event.
The chaos and turmoil in our society, across the spectrum of interests, is the natural flow of history. It is unavoidable and irresistible. Entropy has no master.
Keep cheering.
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