C.S. Lewis on Tyranny

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
—C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock

I love this quote!
Every time I read it I am encouraged. I am encouraged to know there are people out there who ‘get it’ – past and present. One can find many similar quotes like this from Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and many other founding fathers. These people understood the dangers of big government, and established a Republic, a form of government of the people with many checks and balances in order to circumvent it from getting out of control.

In a time when our media is saturated with a homogonous, left-leaning slant that ostracizes even the most innocuous opposition to their agenda, in a time when our current president is not a center-governing president of the People but rather an ideological president only of his own party, in a time when the people who oppose our current staggering lurch to the left have become the “infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” -- I take comfort in quotes like these.



Not because of the content of the quote – for the content, true as it is, is not encouraging by itself – I am comforted because I know there are millions of other Americans out there who feel the same way. Actually, last I checked, the people who are “very satisfied” or “satisfied” with the current direction of the country are in the minority. Check any non liberal-rag pole right now for verification.

Better yet, don’t even look up the polls. Go out and ask people. The lame stream media is a total inverse barometer of what people really think. Other than Fox, getting fair and balanced news is about as futile as asking for a glass of ice water in Hell.
And congress?
They have proven themselves to be an incompetent mass of inept partisans bent on radically altering the fundamental nature of our country. Go talk to the people. Read their blogs. Find out for yourself. My contention is that there are a lot more people out there that grasp the aforementioned C.S. Lewis quote that you may have thought.