“I’ve had some of the pro-gun lobbyists on here, saying to me, ‘Well, the reason we need to be armed is because of tyranny from our own government,’ and I’ve always laughed at them,” Morgan said last night. “But, actually, this is vaguely tyrannical behavior by the American government.”
Morgan and I have clashed over, and over, and over, and over on this issue. In fact, I’m scheduled to be on with him sometimes next week and I’m sure it will come up once again. Maybe he just honestly doesn’t see that tyranny happens. I get it: the United States is the greatest country in the world, we have freedoms here you can’t get anywhere else, eagles, apple pie, Reagan, corndogs, super sizes because x-large” is insufficient, I get it, we rock. That said, tyranny is just a generation away. A government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take it away and we’re witnessing that right now. We saw it under Jackson with American Indians and their genocidal relocation. Tyranny has already happened in the United States.
In my state of Missouri we’ve already had an IRS-esque scandal. Tyranny, it’s happening. I would love for my government to be small and function perfectly, but unfortunately I wasn’t alive during the New Deal when the worst reforms which kicked us down this path began to take shape. I’m glad that Morgan at least sees a slice of the true nature of big government.
Think about this also: the door swings both ways. If progressives sanction this sort of behavior from a Democrat administration, then they sanction it with Republicans in charge. Can you imagine Republicans using the IRS to persecute every liberal group that applies for tax exempt status? Can you see them harassing 500 groups like what’s happened now? Can you see a GOP-led IRS auditing reporters, seizing phone records of the AP off bunk allegations? Are Democrats OK with that? Why are conservatives the only ones warning about this?
