A lesson lost.
Time was Democrats and Republicans in America largely agreed that the Soviet Union and its puppet states were de facto prisons.
Time was Democrats and Republicans in America largely agreed that the Soviet Union and its puppet states were de facto prisons.
The heartland folks know that America isn’t perfect. But they also know that America is good.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
It is simultaneously astonishing and horrifying that a person with a resume that will fit comfortably on one side of a cocktail napkin is now in charge of a city of 300,000 employees, a budget of $120 billion and responsibility for the safety and welfare of more than eight million souls.
Bright-eyed lefties look at America’s wealth and they say to themselves, “There’s plenty to go around. Let’s spread it.”