I don't especially like Republicans, and I certainly don't like Democrats. I'm not a fan of government, period, though I realize that, because there are people called "Democrats" on this earth (and other such vile creatures), government is a "necessary evil," often intolerable, and it has, by far, killed, tortured, oppressed, and robbed from more people, and been the most barbaric institution man has ever created. And it still is.

Our government shutdown has finally ended. I, frankly, hoped the government would never open again. If it hadn't, people would have had to start doing what God and our Founding Fathers intended them to do in the first place: take care of themselves, with families, individuals, and churches. In other words, people who care to help one another when needed. But that's not what government wants. Government wants everybody to obey and be dependent upon them. And they will often kill anyone who opposes them. That's total history, but just study the last 100 years for the most recent examples thereof.

Our Founding Fathers created a virtuous, limited government, where the federal government had few and defined powers that would benefit every American equally. There would have been no government shutdown if we had followed their guidance and kept the republic limited and virtuous. The Republicans, frankly, back in the 1850s and '60s started it (well, the Whigs a little bit before them), but it is the Democratic Party, under Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson (and those who followed them), who have utterly decimated any semblance of the kind of government our Founders established. It's the government we live with now, it's what everybody expects, and we'll never go back to the way it was intended to be. So, we'll continue to have these divisive government blowups for as long as politicians crave power and buy our votes.

The hatred and division in America will build until we finally succumb to our own ignorance, wickedness, and stupidity. "If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within" (James Madison). In other words, we will destroy ourselves—as we are currently doing.

Let me support the above analysis with some quotations from one of our greatest Founding Fathers, James Madison. Madison is given more credit for writing our Constitution than any other man. Thus, if anybody should know what it means, it's him. Let's see what he says about limited government, virtue, etc:

Quote One: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite." 

Read Article 1, Section 8, and you'll find the powers given to Congress. Very few. The first ten amendments to the Constitution tell what the federal government can't do. All other powers belong to the states, which are closer to the people and (theoretically) more easily controlled by them. The powers given to the federal government were neutral, applying equally to every American citizen. Thus, the current battles we see over who gets what amount of booty from the government would be absolutely impossible if Congress had adhered to the powers the Constitution gives it.

Quote Two: "To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical [fanciful] idea." 

A selfish, promiscuous, pleasure-loving society with no virtue will eventually be neither free nor happy. Freedom is based on virtue. That is an almost absolute belief of our Founders.

Quote Three: "The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society, and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust….I go on the great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us?" 

Citizens with virtue will elect representatives of virtue to public office, the ONLY kind of person who can be trusted with even the minimal power our Constitution gives our politicians. When the people become unvirtuous, they will obviously elect such people to power, and the resultant devastation is manifested all through history—and in current America (not to mention other places in the world).

Quote Four: "Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few."

I thought this was an interesting one. The warfare state (i.e., the military-industrial complex) has done as much (if not more) to put us in debt as the welfare state. Debts and taxes put "the many under the domination of the few"—i.e., the government. They've run up a huge debt (over $38 trillion now, or $111,000+ for every American), so we are taxed into poverty and vote for the candidates we hope will give us a little bit of our own money back. That's slavery, folks, not freedom.

Quote Five: "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." 

The poor frog in the pot of water slowly being boiled to death. If that doesn't describe America today, then what does?

Quote Six: "The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded."

Any nation's future success and happiness depend, ultimately, on how faithful they are to God, not upon some words in a document written by man. Our Founders knew that. We have forgotten it.

Our Founders were right: virtuous (based on the laws of God), limited government. It ain't what we've got now, if you haven't noticed.

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Editor’s Note: After more than 40 days of screwing Americans, a few Dems have finally caved. The Schumer Shutdown was never about principle—just inflicting pain for political points.

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