Realistically, this advice from Confucius is why we need to separate America into adults and Progs. Neither cohort has any trust in government by the other. This isn’t going to change.
Tsekung asked about government, and Confucius replied: 'People must have sufficient to eat; there must be a sufficient army; and there must be sufficient confidence of the people in the ruler.' 'If you are forced to give up one of these three objectives, what would you go without first?' asked Tsekung. Confucius said, 'I would go without the army first.' 'And if you were forced to go without one of the two remaining factors, what would you rather go without?' asked Tsekung again. 'I would rather go without sufficient food for the people. There have always been deaths in every generation since men lived, but a nation cannot exist without confidence in its ruler.'
Like other advice from Classical times, it comes from one who lived in and thought about the real world, having little protection / distraction from the reality of day-to-day living; a world drastically different from our First World today in which we are protected or distracted from the reality that still exists where the uncivilized dwell, whether that be S Africa or the south side of Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or the District of Corruption.
Progs are freeloaders and prefer to ostracize (for now) anyone not of them. They’ll starve, fight, devolve and, given their far-below replacement fertility for many years, inability to make, maintain or grow, and ultimately make themselves irrelevant.
Expecting everything to be made for and provided to them, feminized to overemphasize empathy over legislated law and order and what must be done to keep civilization alive, Progs are the anti-civilization cohort.
If you’ve not watched this short VDH video, I highly recommend it: this election is about civilization itself; you’re either for it or against it.
Adults take responsibility, make, fix and grow things, don’t poison themselves with Pharmafia, and for the most part, want families and kids - a future.
Little, if anything, in the pantheon of Proggism is based in reality. In fact, they draw farther from it each day.
We need to separate so that we can have a free future. We can do so now peacefully, or mostly peacefully - depending on them. Waiting much longer will mean separating violently.
But separate we must if we want ourselves and our posterity to live free.
Perhaps a good start would be to call progressives what many of them really are -- lazy communists who have embraced the government welfare state that pays them to vote for the Communist Democrat Party, which in turn supports them with our tax dollars. I'm not sure that our future will be free. Unelected, unaccountable, unionized authoritarian Administrative and Deep State bureaucrats have wormed their way into total control of the government -- and it fully supports authoritarian Democrat ideologues. This does not bode well for America's freedom, which may have to be reclaimed with another civil war to regain the rights, liberties and freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and Rule of Law.