re: #655 Occasional Reader

re: #640 Killgore Trout

You can not preserve freedom and democracy by limiting freedom and democracy.

Er, well… actually, sometimes that very thing is necessary to that very end. It’s not like FDR exactly presided over an unprecedented expansion of civil liberties during WWII.

Lincoln, either. Interesting discussion, we can either say those were large flaws in great men that we now say were worth it or they were a wartime necessity and might be needed again. Hmmm.