Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“One of the main reasons I can’t be conservative or liberal — Right or Left, Republican or Democrat — is that all of them trust government to some degree. I don’t trust it because I can’t. They trust government with different issues; their specific degree of trust depends on which political party holds the most offices this week. I trust government with nothing — based on its actions, not its promises, and its perpetual failure to fulfill the bare minimum justification for government throughout history. Each political faction also has areas where they doubt government, but I distrust it entirely — especially in critical matters like life, death, ethics, or natural rights. Handing those to government was a mistake.” (09/24/25)