The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight: “It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, ‘We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.’ This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.” —Ronald Reagan

Upright: “To complain that the Electoral College promotes a focus on swing states is to complain that it compels presidential candidates to build coalitions — to go beyond their comfort zone and persuade voters to back them. That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” —Jeff Jacoby

For the record: “There is no crushing this virus. We were told fifteen days to SLOW the spread [to] flatten the curve. That is what we all consented to. Not hiding in a bunker for an indefinite amount of time to wait for a perhaps vaccine.” —Bethany S. Mandel

Tongue-in-cheek: “I can’t believe it took the Washington Redskins this long to react to how offensive their team name was to white people.” —Frank J. Fleming

Non compos mentis: “Maybe [rising crime] has to do with the fact that people aren’t paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent and so they go out and they need to feed their child and they don’t have money so … they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry that night.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Braying jenny: “I think what we heard from [Education Secretary Betsy DeVos] was malfeasance and dereliction of duty. This is appalling. The president and his administration are messing with the health of our children. We all want our children to go back to school. Teachers do, parents do, and children do. But they must go back safely.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

And last… “This afternoon, my friend and I saw a car with a BIDEN and BETO sticker on the back. So, we went over and smashed the windows to teach that dirty leftist a lesson. Just kidding. We looked at it, shrugged and kept walking, because we conservatives aren’t absolute psychos.” —Sydney Watson