[Y]ou cannot determine either the truth or the right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions.
Charley ReeseThe poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.
Charley ReeseCapitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.
Charley ReeseReason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.
Charley Reese