“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.” — Abraham Lincoln
Have you ever noticed how the more dictatorial the government; the more beneficent the terms they use to describe their self-serving policies?
Today’s autocrats use the pretense of a “greater goodness” to cover the undeniable evil of their actions. And an insistence that they are leading us to a better place; to calm our uneasiness that their path leads in the opposite direction.
You don’t need anyone to tell you the right thing to do; but you need a government to tell you that it’s wrong to do it.
How many legs does an inequitable and unfair government policy have to stand on?
Two. Yours.