Question

What advice do you think John Locke would give to American politicians today?

Answer 1

Explain and give specific examples from the ideas of the philosopher

Answer 2

Government is on the brink of losing control which is why they have put up a smoke screen which has the people fighting among each other.
Class Warfare is hiding their theft, we are fighting over an ARBITRARY number, 250K for no reason, the government and the Federal Reserve is handing Billions to countries and themselves which we care nothing about.

What would Locke say?That our governmnet is no longer protecting the property or liberties of the people who chose to be a part of this society. That soon we will discover that the oppression caused by revolting and forming a new society or government because they are no longer protecting us but treating us all as prisoners and enemies, searching and wiretapping with no just cause etc. is worth doing.

Yes our foolish legislators do not realize that there is only so much of this we will submit to before we no longer submit and feel that overthrowing them is worth the chaos it will cause for relief from oppression it will bring.

And that came believe it or not from a Conservative.

When housewives and middle America comes out to protest, and not just the youthful students, government really has a problem. Now both are angry enough to start denying government regulations and realize that they have become to totalitarian.

Locke would warn them that they had best back off lest they loose control.

Read what he has to say about the topic yourself.

Secondly: I answer, such revolutions happen not upon every little mismanagement in public affairs. Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty will be borne by the people without mutiny or murmur. But if a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going, it is not to be wondered that they should then rouse themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected, and without which, ancient names and specious forms are so far from being better, that they are much worse than the state of Nature or pure anarchy; the inconveniencies being all as great and as near, but the remedy farther off and more difficult.

§ 226. Thirdly: I answer, that this power in the people of providing for their safety anew by a new legislative when their legislators have acted contrary to their trust by invading their property, is the best fence against rebellion, and the probable means to hinder it. For rebellion being an opposition, not to persons, but authority, which is founded only in the constitutions and laws of the government: those, whoever they be, who, by force, break through, and, by force, justify their violation of them, are truly and properly rebels. For when men, by entering into society and civil government, have excluded force, and introduced laws for the preservation of property, peace, and unity amongst themselves, those who set up force again in opposition to the laws, do rebel are - that is, bring back again the state of war, and are properly rebels, which they who are in power, by the pretence they have to authority, the temptation of force they have in their hands, and the flattery of those about them being likeliest to do, the proper way to prevent the evil is to show them the danger and injustice of it who are under the greatest temptation to run into it.

Answer 3

thank you

Answer 4

Anytime.