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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBen Carson: We have a Constitution because 'lions eat gazelles'
By David Edwards
Published December 05, 2021
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson offered an odd explanation for the existence of the U.S. Constitution.
During an interview with Carson on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo argued that a bipartisan bill to improve vaccine infrastructure would increase the Center for Disease Control's "surveillance" on Americans.
"Recognize that governments have a tendency to grow, to infiltrate and control," Carson replied. "And those are governments that are controlled by Democrats or Republicans or independents or anybody. That's what governments do."
https://www.rawstory.com/ben-carson-lions-eat-gazelles/
I guess he didn't attend history classes.....
hlthe2b
(102,376 posts)perform neurosurgery, when you research further it is not clear he had the mental judgment to do so effectively in many cases and frankly I think those (bad outcome) cases catching up to him may have prompted his leaving the profession.
I honestly don't think he is a smart man, but somehow he honed his skills in the one direction that could bring him some celebrity. Since then, though...
Me.
(35,454 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)When the gazelles show up - pow!!