Why should government be small? Why should politicians not be trusted? Wise men know/knew that the role of government should be only to protect: 1. Your life 2. Your freedoms (liberty) 3. Your property That you should be able to live freely without coercion or theft of your property. This is the moral line. When Bastiat wrote The Law, he astutely identified that when the government gets into the business of redistribution, it inverses morality, because it can no longer protect your life, liberty and property. It is a simple concept that many struggle with as they have been gaslighted into believing there are things which are necessary for the government to do. Life, liberty and property are universal rights. When the government takes and redistributes it creates preferences for votes, therefore these universal rights fall away. In reverse: 3. They no longer protect your property as they confiscate it through taxation and threats of violence. 2. They no longer protect your liberty as they legislate preferences based on accumulating and retaining power. Hence the slow slide into authoritarianism. 1. They no longer protect your life, as they use violence to extract and redistribute. The only way to end the failure of the state, politicians and politics is to return to freedom and return to government protecting only life, liberty and property. These are universal, these are fair.(Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪)