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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/33042/
- Published: 2014-06-25T06:00:40.000Z
- Updated: 2014-06-25T06:00:40.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Kauffman.jpeg "Kauffman")

I thought I long ago ran this great quote from Bill Kauffman's *Ain't My America*, but apparently not. He is quoting John Randolph:

> “No government, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, can be fit to govern me or those whom I represent.” He was right. A nation stretching three thousand miles over mountain and prairie and desert is ungovernable from a single city set on a coastal swamp. Or at least it cannot be governed with a sensitivity to local conditions, an intelligent awareness of the cultural diversity inherent in any healthy society. It can be governed by the brute force of an Internal Revenue Service and a Department of Homeland Security, but it cannot sustain the Republic's spirit.