..."These days, for many people the phrase “rule of law” really means “the suggestion of guideline,” and I think this degradation of our basic understanding of civics should be of enormous concern to everyone regardless of whether they hew right and left. In fact, I think the omnipresent right/left prism through which the establishment media filters everything is itself an enormous problem in America.
Fundamentally, I distrust government. In this sense, I’d say I’m very much in line with the founding fathers, who created a whole system of checks and balances, insisted on a Bill of Rights, and wrote extensively of their fear of government in the Federalist Papers. But I don’t see this attitude widely at work in America today. Judging from the comments I get on my blog, my Facebook page, and my Twitter feed, I think that deep down, the majority of Americans would rather be subjects than citizens, and that they don’t even really know the difference."...
Just as an aside, I am a little surprised that he is a liberal. I thought they were all knuckle dragging neanderthals incapable of reading, let alone writing.
