Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:
"No wonder politicians destroyed the Founders’ republic for a democratic dystopia that empowers them. Yes, the ghosts of that republic still flit along the periphery of the public square. But they increasingly flee before the dictatorship of the mob, aka., 'democracy.' The idea that government’s one and only job is to protect our political liberty expired well over a century ago; instead, its leeches sponsor legislation based on an issue’s publicity (which they’ve often carefully ginned up beforehand) and its resulting popularity. And even that democracy isn’t direct enough: hence the rise of 'propositions,' 'ballot initiatives,' 'school levies' and other ploys, whereby our friends and family decree which of our inalienable rights the State may alienate and how much of our money it will steal.
Voting legitimizes these evils and many more. By casting a ballot, victims tacitly agree that the State should reign over them. They unwittingly cooperate with their predators to change the question from whether Leviathan may manage our lives to how."
Becky Akers
"There is no reason to expect the U.S. government to ever become trustworthy on Afghanistan. At best, Washington will rotate its lies, the same way it rotates the National Guard units sent to the Afghan badlands. Americans need to recognize that, once their government commences warring, truth will be target number one."
James Bovard
"We’ve already undergone a gradual revolution in economic thinking. It seems most people are now at least sympathetic, if not active supporters, of socialism and the welfare state.
We’ve had a slow-motion political revolution, with a gigantic and irreversible concentration of power in the State.
The next step seems inevitable. Cultural revolution."
Doug Casey
"The United States was a unique country in which traditional European enemies became assimilated as Americans. But assimilation is no longer emphasized or even permitted. The celebration of diversity and multiculturalism has split the population into victimizer and victimized groups, with hatred of the former taught to the latter. In place of unity, disunity has been created. The American future is not promising."
Paul Craig Roberts
"As most of my readers know I am guilty of othering and demonizing communists, I do not consider them human beings worthy of my consideration or protection. They are the enemy of all moral and free men. Surprisingly, Radio Free Europe published a great retrospective on the Romanian elimination of their communist overlords in a style I hope to see repeated in the future.
We all know communists now, you don’t just see them on TV or whatever media you consume (I recommend you never watch another news broadcast for the rest of your life). They are strangers in the supermarket, that car with the Obama or Pantsuit Negan sticker on their car; they may even be friends and family. Their creed is a gun to your head.
There are communists amongst us!
When the government comes to take away evil private guns, they will use evil government guns to do so."
Bill Buppert
"The media plus the public school system have sold the U.S. brand of fascism as democracy. When the federal government — or, as we call it, the state — can create money and pay it to you for goods and your labor, you are a slave. You may be a happy slave, but you are indeed a slave to the money creators. This system is iron-fisted totalitarianism because it is backed by police power and accepted as 'law.'
Now do you see why they want everyone to be 'educated' at a university? George Orwell could not have conceived of such a perfect scheme."
Bob Livingston
"Among the most popular current catchwords are 'climate change deniers.' Stop and think. Have you ever — even once in your entire life — seen, heard or read even one human being who denied that climates change?
It is hard even to imagine how any minimally knowledgeable person could deny that climates change, when there are fossils of marine creatures in the Sahara Desert. Obviously there has been quite a bit of climate change there."
Thomas Sowell
"I can’t see that the Left actually is Left, I mean. The Left in its more practical embodiments used to be the champion of the working man. It fought for unions, good pay, benefits and job security. Conditions were horrible in America’s mines and factories. Things were ugly, and Leftists often got hurt or, occasionally, killed trying to remedy them.
The Left is now hostile to working men, called 'deplorables' in an unwise moment of honesty by Hillary. Can you imagine Saul Alinsky or Leon Trotsky worrying about transgender bathrooms or cultural appropriation? And it is a weirdly teenage Left in which most seem ten or fifteen years younger than their chronologic age. Oh good."
Fred Reed
"I can imagine that some day we will be presented with mature candidates who have some wisdom, sense, understanding and integrity, and who can control the 21st century tendency for nasty remarks. It seems that rap, comedy, and movies are all raising the level of crudity, nastiness and immaturity. It’s been so long since mature candidates have appeared, male or female, that it’s hard to maintain this fond hope. The theory that the worst people, the shallow demagogues, rise to the top in a democratic system seems to have legs. The level of the top is also sinking lower and lower."
Michael Rozeff
"No longer does the left exist to question authority, if indeed it ever did. It exists to defend orthodoxies and expel dissidents."
Tom Woods
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