We should remember the words of James Madison in Federalist No. 10: "The latent causes of faction are those sown in the nature of man....But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property....It is in vain to say that enlightened statesman will be able to adjust these clashing inte…
We should remember the words of James Madison in Federalist No. 10: "The latent causes of faction are those sown in the nature of man....But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property....It is in vain to say that enlightened statesman will be able to adjust these clashing interests and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." We are on the road to kleptocracy. That is what the likes of Trump and Elon Musk plan for. That is what J.D. Vance and his technocratic billionaire financiers and advocates, like Peter Thiel, envision as the new National Conservative movement. Our democratic republic stands in their way for now, and they fully intend to dismantle it. They do not wish to be subservient to the common good. They wish, instead, for the common good, the public welfare, to kneel to them.
We should remember the words of James Madison in Federalist No. 10: "The latent causes of faction are those sown in the nature of man....But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property....It is in vain to say that enlightened statesman will be able to adjust these clashing interests and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." We are on the road to kleptocracy. That is what the likes of Trump and Elon Musk plan for. That is what J.D. Vance and his technocratic billionaire financiers and advocates, like Peter Thiel, envision as the new National Conservative movement. Our democratic republic stands in their way for now, and they fully intend to dismantle it. They do not wish to be subservient to the common good. They wish, instead, for the common good, the public welfare, to kneel to them.