>>14906363No, founding fathers knew more political freedom required more moral regulations.
American, right now, is 100% on the path to being burnt down to the ground. Something will take it's place but I'll be long dead by then to care.
'Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?'
- Alexis de Tocqueville, 'De La Démocratie en Amérique (1840)'
