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The people's demand for government run services will always result in politicians seeking to exploit those demands for personal political gain. The end result is an ever increasing government power which must be given the authority to tyrannize one segment of the population in order to fund the many services being demanded by other segments.

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas Jefferson

230 years later, this is where we find ourselves today. Almost every election is decided 51-49, one side or the other. Nearly every Supreme Court decision is decided 5-4, one side or the other.

Not long ago, the vast majority of Americans sought to protect and preserve the ideas of the Founders and defend individual freedom and liberty at any cost. But today, somewhere close to half of all Americans now seek to trade individual freedom and liberty for a perceived greater good. They call it progress…

And that's why Jefferson also reminds us that "Every generation needs a new revolution."

It's also why the Second Amendment was written, as Jefferson stated so well, "Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

Contrary to conventional thinking, our guns are not just for hunting. They are for defending our lawful earnings and property, our individual freedom and liberty, against an increasingly intrusive power-hungry government which must take from our most productive citizens against their will, in order to deliver on the promises of expanding government powers.

Until all Americans are adequately reminded and respectful of the reality that there is NO good greater than the good of individual freedom and liberty, they will continue to relinquish their freedom to those who seek the political power only available in a dependent society.

Unless all Americans come to terms with the fact that nothing on earth is more "fair" than "unequal" results for "unparalleled efforts," they will continue down the path of Democratic Socialism until they realize that they cannot be made richer, but only poorer, by the punitive destruction of achievers.

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." - Thomas Jefferson

I chose Jefferson for this piece not only because he is the most prolific of our Founders, but because he was also the best traveled and studied of the Founders.

Isn't it odd that he is also the Founder Democratic Socialists most often quote as one of their own? Those who seek a government mandated greater common good are followers of Marx, not Jefferson.

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Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

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