So that's very destructive part of politics. The other, I think just absolute truism is Lord Acton said power corrupts. And so I view the root cause of our problem is literally government. Government provides people the power that they are able to then corrupt. And so, you know, the genius of our founding fathers was they came from dictatorial monarchies and other regimes. (06:43–06:48)
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Asserts that government gives people power, which can be corrupted.
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