He [the Statist] Is Unmoved By Reason,

I Close With Two Words, ‘kill Isis!’ God Bless You All!

Moreover, It Is Difficult To Reconcile Hobbes’s Distrust For The Individual With His Confidence In The Altruistic Nature Of The Individual Or Individuals Who Will Oversee And Control The Leviathan. Are Not The Latter Also Of Flesh And Blood? Hobbes Seems To Be Saying That Man’s Nature Cannot Be Trusted But The Nature Of A Ruler Or A Ruling Assembly Of Men Can Be Trusted. How So?

We Are Not A Nation Of Immigrants. We Are A Nation Of Citizens. I Am Sick And Tired Of The American Citizen Being Demeaned And Treated As A Second-class Citizen While Anybody Who Crosses The Border Is Treated As The Most Virtuous Human Being On The Face Of The Earth.

Consequently, Citizen Legislators, Rotating Back To Their Communities After A Short Period Of Public Service—considered An Indispensable And Routine Characteristic And Design Of Representative Government At The Time Of The Founding, And For A Century Thereafter—have Been Replaced With A Professional Ruling Class Led By Governing Masterminds. For The Most Part, They Are Isolated From The Communities From Which They Hail And Are Consumed With The Daily Jockeying For Position And Power Within Their Ranks. Moreover, They Both Pander To And Lord Over Their Constituents.

Conservatism Is The Antidote To Tyranny. It's The Only One. It's Based On Thousands Of Years Of Human Experience. There Is Nothing Narrow About The Conservative Philosophy. It's A Liberating Philosophy. It Is A Magnificent Philosophy. It Is A Philosophy For The Ages, For All Times.