Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Richard M Ebeling
“Why has political discourse reached such an extreme and heated state that violence has become a more acceptable tool for some to ‘solve’ differences over ideas? I would suggest that part of the reason is due to the fact that politics and government increasingly intrude into, influence, and determine so much more of people’s lives. The very nature of the modern democratic political process is that whichever majority of voters are triumphant in elections determines the course of political and social life in greater and greater detail for all in society, including all those who voted against the winning candidates. … The only way out of this political dead end is an abandonment of the statist premises that government is to be used to direct and remake society, regardless of the image of the good society desired.” (09/17/25)