Words to ponder
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Including your religions?
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Communism is a form of socialism.
Fascism is a form of socialism.
Nazis were socialists.
Democrats are socialists.
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Void argument fallacy. Random letters.
ZenMode
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Your religions are bait?
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He's a master of nothing. He can't even keep track of his own posts.
Today's American people are living as a “flock of timid animals herded by bureaucrats”, as Alexis de Tocqueville feared we would be.
Alexis de Tocqueville worried less about a tyrant seizing power and more about the tyranny of the majority, that is, a "democracy" so certain it speaks for everyone that it tolerates no dissent.
His deeper warning was soft despotism, a government that smothers citizens in endless small rules instead of jailing them until they become, in his words, “a flock of timid and hardworking animals with the government as its shepherd”.
Under soft despotism, officials rule more like schoolmasters than tyrants.
Fewer things get forbidden outright and more and more simply require permission, a form, or a fee.
People trade their freedom away quietly one small convenience and one small rule at a time so gradually that they barely notice it is gone.
And by the time it is, it is too late.