Frank's Musings

COVID is no more than a convenient wedge to use in that competition. The Founders of our republic believed that it had moral objectives, like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Something has led Republicans to cast those goals aside, and to make their control of government their foremost desire. They don’t acknowledge that our democratic government only exists as the means by which our Founders originally decided to organize our society. Its structure and principles were instituted in order to make it operate as the tool of the people themselves.

One faction of the people who seek control of our government, however, are driven not by achieving the common good but by maximizing their control of as much human activity as possible.

This is nothing new; it has always been the main conflict in human history. Put another way, it is the opposition between philosophies of human life—Is life a game that ends with death or do living beings have an ultimate purpose? How is winning the game of life measured—by the level of personal achievement or by society’s long-term betterment of everyone's welfare.