[narf poit chez BOOM]

Life is meeting people with contradictory viewpoints.

I'm going to say something radical here, and that is that nearly any government can work, so long as the people in charge care about doing the right thing.

Democracy is just a relatively peaceful way of changing the people in charge.

To add to that, all governments are essentially democracies. The only real difference is the violence with which the change is effected.

That is another reason for the bearing of arms; so that change can be effected.

And, lastly, one persons' honest, faltering best means more, in my opinion, than anothers' confident, successful half-effort.

I like to think of the United States constitution as one of those things. With all its problems, it was better than much that came before and building toward that ideal has solved, to a significant extent, some rather large problems.

And, practically, the person who tries their best and does not manage to match the challenge will, in the long run, out-do any lazy rabbit, to refer to a well-known story.

It is rare for such a person to never overcome their challenge, if it is within their power.