This catastrophe in Texas has really brought some chickens home to roost. Government matters. Government done badly leads to the collapse of the power grid. We were warned. So why couldn’t we react in time to save ourselves and our neighbors? Because of a forty year campaign to weaken and undermine the very idea of government. It is time to rewrite the founding statement of that anti-government campaign

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