Prof. Greg Jackson

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Serial Killers & Murderous Minds · Introducing: Government That Doesn’t Suck · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

So he says, dang it, now I feel the need to back up even more.

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction, the one by removing its causes, the other by controlling its effects."

Okay, easy enough so far, right?

This isn't super deep.

We can all follow this.

There are, again, two methods of removing the cause of faction.

The one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence.

The other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.

Okay, so this should be super obvious to all of us, but going into this next paragraph.

Great thoughts are, in my opinion, a mark of greatness is that when you hear it, it feels obvious.

And that for me is what Federalist number 10 does on this point.

It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy that it was worse than the disease.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire.

an ailment without which it instantly expires.

But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

Founding father, mic drop.

Like that stuff, Lindsay, I mean, that is why 250 years later, right?

And again, Jemmy wrote it after 250, but embracing the semi-quincentennial that we are in.

I have practiced that word, by the way.

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