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A Jeffersonian Future? – Paul Schwennesen

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A return to the principles of Thomas Jefferson can address our current existential angst while maintaining the basic edifice of our national legacy. Wisdom of the ages tells us (somewhat unhelpfully) that “if something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” Our nation stands at the precipice of an unparalleled $34 trillion dollar debt crisis and a Social Security and demographic collapse. Our post-Cold War military supremacy is rapidly being outflanked by an ascendent and expansionist China. A growing global bloc resents and rebuffs our vision of a liberal world order, a tension exemplified at the Russian front in Ukraine. Meanwhile, within our borders the emotional breakers of the culture wars continue to roll in, tearing ever deeper at the bedrock of our republic. It cannot continue this way indefinitely. A return to Jeffersonian principles of limited, diffuse government offers the most likely (and most peaceful) path forward. Yes, doomsday prophesying is a perennially over-indulged ha

Wisdom of the ages tells us (somewhat unhelpfully) that “if something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” Our nation stands at the precipice of an unparalleled $34 trillion dollar debt crisis and a Social Security and demographic collapse. Our post-Cold War military supremacy is rapidly being outflanked by an ascendent and expansionist China. A growing global bloc resents and rebuffs our vision of a liberal world order, a tension exemplified at the Russian front in Ukraine. Meanwhile, within our borders the emotional breakers of the culture wars continue to roll in, tearing ever deeper at the

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