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Middle Age Russ wrote:The author of the article mentions the "Five Aims" in an earlier article in the series. They are from the Preamble to the US Constitution, "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." From his worldview, it seems apparent that he values the first four as applied to the general population much more highly than the last as applied to individuals.

From my reading of the Founders, individual liberty, individual property and being safe in ones person were the lynchpins of society, and these led to the creation of a government to secure these and, in aggregate, the other things mentioned in the Preamble. I guess the author has only gone as far as reading the Constitution and establishing his own hierarchy of the stated values based on a Progressive upbringing. It's too bad folks can't (or don't) take time to look deeper into the WHY and HOW of things rather than investing themselves in the WHAT, WHERE, WHEN tripe they are fed without validating it.