George Santayana famously wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Leftist policies daily show his wisdom. The latest leftist policy to go down in flames is Oregon’s experiment with legalizing all drugs. It turns out that when you give people license to sin, and also delete all moral constraints, they’ll sin themselves to death. Now, Oregon’s very leftist governor, Tina Kotek, is walking back the policy, having declared a state of emergency over fentanyl drug overdoses.
The Founding Fathers never forgot the past. Indeed, they were imbued with it. One example of that wisdom was James Madison, who pored over the history books to determine what form of government would best optimize human potential. The one thing he knew with certainty was that people needed some government in order to function: “If Men were angels, no government would be necessary.” Image: Fentanyl overdose in Portland […]
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