You cannot invite Tyranny to protect you and hold your Freedom contemporaneously: these do not coexist; similarly, you cannot both be responsible and irresponsible for your life.
Why do you suppose the Founders preferred to rely upon Militias and not standing Armies? You cannot sit irresponsibly on the sideline after being thrust into a game in whose outcome you bear significant interest.
Thomas Jefferson once spoke, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Ignorance (irresponsible), as Jefferson proclaims, is contradistinguished from Freedom (responsible): if you know not of what Freedom consists or not how to effect it, then you will accept its opposite, Tyranny.
We do not expect everyone to turn Philosopher and reveal Truth in all its Glory, but why does Ignorance persist when the Knowledge of the matter has been revealed? It definitely is not that people are Stupid and unable to learn, but, barring the issue of access to Knowlege, some Men are not diligent in their affairs; these desire not to feed, but to be fed.
Yes, you read that correctly: "A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again." Prov 19:24
The following are apt observations by Malcom X.
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary."
"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom."
Study the action of following diligent Man: observe his refusal to accept Tyranny, he eschews Ignorance in favor of his Knowlege of Freedom. If the following Man is included in your political constituency, then you know what is meant by the phrase "Leader of a Free People." Or do you allow yourself to be the Leader of an Ignorant People?
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