Ch 14.1 - Politics
"The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who don’t." - Thomas DiLorenzo
Narrative: The two-party system represents the public. Our democracy is the best form of government. People who talk about things outside the narrative are extremists.
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a. Politics
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"The price men pay to be indifferent to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
"Marcus Cicero (43 BC). of the Roman empire wrote this amazing wisdom:
1) The poor - work & work.
2) The rich - exploit the poor.
3) The soldier - protects both.
4) The taxpayer - pays for all three.
5) The banker - robs all four.
6) The lawyer - misleads all five.
7) The doctor - bills all six.
8) The goons - scare all of seven.
9) The politician - lives happily on account of all eight.
Written in 43 B.C. Valid even today!" - Unknown
"Governments represent the interests of 1)their members and 2) their clients; a country's citizens are lucky if they have occasional opportunities to express a thumbs-up or thumbs-down opinion via the ballot box (as we recently saw with Turkey, and may see in the FUSA in November). The actual interests of the citizens, though, will always be #3." - Unknown
"Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex." - Frank Zappa
pol·i·tics - noun - the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power. From Greek politēs meaning ‘citizen’ and also polis meaning ‘city’.
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." - Noam Chomsky
"Fvck it. [It’s time to] throw a brick through that goddamned Overton Window." - Unknown
"Overton window - an approach to identifying the ideas that define the spectrum of acceptability of governmental policies where politicians can act only within the acceptable range. Shifting the Overton window involves proponents of policies outside the window persuading the public to expand the window. The most common misconception is that lawmakers themselves are in the business of shifting the Overton window. That is absolutely false. Lawmakers are actually in the business of detecting where the window is, and then moving to be in accordance with it. Overton window consists of six degrees of public acceptance to new ideas w/ policy in middle:
Unthinkable - Socially Unacceptable
Radical - Socially Unacceptable
Acceptable - Policy Window
Sensible - Policy Window
Popular - Policy Window
Policy - Policy Window
Popular - Policy Window
Sensible - Policy Window
Acceptable - Policy Window
Radical - Socially Unacceptable
Unthinkable - Socially Unacceptable" - Unknown
"Distinctions in politics is like saying you would rather get run over by a truck than a car." - Unknown
"This shocking announcement has electrified the base; no one can stay grounded, and all they hear is static. And that's right off the wire, folks; it makes my hair stand up. A revolting situation. Charge it to my credit card so I can amp my points. More power to ya! Stay positive. The good and bad news are alternating, continuously ..." - Unknown
"The Uniparty:
• Pro Fiat Money
• Pro Cental Banking
• Pro War
• Pro Pharma Corruption
• Pro Regulatory Capture
• Pro Censorship
• Pro Deep State
• Pro Globalism
Isn't it time to stand up for what vou believe in?" - Unknown
“We have two parties here, and only two. One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party ... Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that's both evil and stupid. That's called bipartisanship.” - M. Stanton Evans
"So, Lone Starr, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb" - Spaceballs
"Two parties by day. One big party at night." - Jesse Ventura
"Wasn’t it said - when you hear 'bipartisan,' that means particularly evil **** is incoming?" - Unknown on a bipartisan bill being presented to regulate artificial intelligence.
"It isn’t red vs blue. It’s team government vs everyone else." - Unknown
"I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. . . in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, and music. . ." - John Adams to his wife Abigail 1780
"Diogenes, one of the ancient world's illustrious philosophers, believed that lies were the currency of politics, and those lies were the ones he sought to expose and debase. To make his point, Diogenes occasionally carried a lit lantern through the streets of Athens in the daylight. If asked why, Diogenes would say he was searching for an honest man." - Unknown
"I'm going to repeat this over and over... my grandad told me politicians can only do two things... take your money and tell you what to do. How hard do you really want them to work?" - Unknown
"When was the last time you’ve even see a politician? Imagine a western leader walking through a mall. They’re insulated from their decisions." - Andrew Tate
"True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within." - Saul Alinsky
"As I've often said, there are two types of people in the world: People who like to control physical reality and build things. And people who like to control other people. They're the kind who go into government and push these ideas." - Doug Casey
"The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants." - Albert Camus
"We hang out petty thieves and appoint our great ones to office." - Unknown
"Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them." - Isaiah 1: 23
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts." - H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
"Governments are always the perpetrators of the greatest evils. That's because sociopaths and psychopaths thrive in the unaccountable environment of government." - Unknown
“You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics.” - Unknown
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams
"Only virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." – Benjamin Franklin
"If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." - 2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." -Mencken
"In any given political situation, the best outcome one can reasonably expect generally happens when politicians do nothing. Politicians rarely do nothing. That's why things keep getting worse. We have a messed up healthcare system, education system, public pension system, because politicians keep trying to solve our problems for us." - Unknown
gov·ern·ment - noun - the governing body of a nation, state, or community. From Old French governer 'to rule, command, direct' and ment meaning 'mind.'
"No State, no Government, exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men." - Rose Lane
“When government becomes the only thing holding us together - when government replaces community and civil society - the result isn't greater solidarity and consistency, but rage and dissolution." - Unknown
“Q: Who can name the three branches of government?
A: Corporations, Pedophiles, and the Media!” - Unknown
"Once a government is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back." - Gore Vidal
"The government is just a business with no incentive to deliver agreed-upon services because the customers pay them under threat of incarceration. Things legal when the government does it: murder, selling drugs, tax evasion, pedophilia, money laundering, counterfeiting, kidnapping, confiscation/theft, prostitution." - Unknown
"If you haven't figured it out by now, our entire government is a huge mafia who launders our tax payer money right back to themselves through foreign aid & endless wars. They all hate you & could care less if you suffer & die horrible deaths, as long as they get rich." - @TheRISEofROD
"Government is necessary because people left unchecked will do evil? The government is composed of people left unchecked..." - Unknown
"Slave owners tell their slaves there would be chaos without them. Abusers tell their victims there would be chaos without them. Governements tell their people there would be chaos without them. Fear is your enslavement." - Unknown
"I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. A Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." - Thomas Jefferson
"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials only our agents. We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet… [A]t the constitutional level, speech need not be a sedative; it can be disruptive… [A] function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger." - Unknown
"Who is the public? What does it hold as its good? There was a time when men believed that 'the good' was a concept to be defined by a code of moral values and that no man had the right to seek his good through the violation of the rights of another. If it is now believed that my fellow men may sacrifice me in any manner they please for the sake of whatever they deem to be their own good, if they believe that they may seize my property simply because they need it - well, so does any burglar. There is only this difference: the burglar does not ask me to sanction his act." - Unknown
"Everybody is a renter, and the government is the landlord. If you have to pay the govt annually to stay in your house, do you really own it? If you have to rent to a tenant that doesn't pay, do you really own it?" - Unknown
"Rights aren't rights if someone can take them away. They're privileges. That's all we've ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter. Sooner or later, the people in this country are gonna realize the government … doesn't care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety… It's interested in its own power. That's the only thing. Keeping it and expanding it wherever possible." - George Carlin
b. Republic/Conservatism/Libertalism
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“America as a liberal Republic is inconvenient for the elites. They want the power of life and death over you. Your rights limit their power because money is not enough.” - Unknown
“Let me now state what seems to me the decisive objection to any conservatism which deserves to be called such. It is that by its very nature it cannot offer an alternative to the direction in which we are moving. It may succeed by its resistance to current tendencies in slowing down undesirable developments, but, since it does not indicate another direction, it cannot prevent their continuance. It has, for this reason, invariably been the fate of conservatism to be dragged along a path not of its own choosing." - Fredrick Hayek
"The problem with the Republican party is that it doesn't actually stand for anything. It's the same Democrat party just in slow motion. At the rate we're going if we elect Democrats, we will be a socialist country in 10 years. If we elect Republicans, it'll probably take 15 years. We need to do better." - Unknown
"Newt is an utter fraud. I remember when the Repugs controlled EVERYTHING and still couldn't reign in spending. Contract with America? Pfffft! That passed into the night like a wet fart." - Unknown
"The only thing I hate more than a Democrat is a Republican."
"Give Republicans a yard and they take an inch." - Unknown
"Republicans and wise. Two words you don't expect to see in the same sentence." - Unknown
"Let's be clear, those aren't Republicans in D.C. Those are Junior Varsity Democrats." - BradHuston
"Investigations > Hearings > Posturing > Bribes > Sternly-Worded Letters > Memory Hole" - Unknown
"There is a reason why the GOP never goes beyond where they are now. It is all theatrics. This is not a 2 party system. This is one big gas-lighting F you to the American public. DC has set up media echo-chambers for each party affiliation which makes it seem like things are happening. But ask yourself, the Bidens were caught red-handed via the laptop, and absolutely nothing has happened to them. And likely nothing ever will. But these 'hearings' will continue for the purpose of looking like they are taking action." - Unknown
"Vivek Ramaswamy said the most true thing all evening: NBC should not be hosting. The debate should be hosted by the GOP itself and the questions should be asked by Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, and Joe Rogan. It took me a few weeks to realize something. The questions were not stupid. They were part of a plot. Each question was designed, not to find difference between candidates, but rather to peel off support of some constituent bloc from supporting the GOP candidate whomever it might be. The entire event was a setup to harm the entire chances of the party." - Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times on how each question asked at the debates was designed to alienate a potential constituency and how the candidates all took the bait.
"Republicans will 'reach across the aisle' to help elect a Democrat as the Speaker Of The House.
(I've joked about this several times, but I'm not sure it's a joke anymore.)" - Unknown, on Republican failure to elect Jim Jordan speaker of the House
"Georgia's Republicans I think that you mention, aren't even RINOs so much as radical Democrats that have been processed through some kind of coaching seminar to have Republican haircuts, suits, speaking patterns after screening for having families that can be cleaned up to look wholesome and all-American." - Unknown
"We have one party which has two wings, one is called Democratic, the other is called Republican. Each is financed by the same oil companies, and the same defense industries and the politicians are interchangeable" - Gore Vidal
"You conservatives don't get it. You give liberals an inch they take a mile. Your core beliefs are but speedbumps in the total destruction of western civilization." - Unknown
"The only difference between Republicans and Democrats is the rate we progress toward communism. To have true opposition we need a policital party of Anti-Communists." - Unknown
"Any organization that is not explicitly and actively conservative by its very mission will always drift in the opposite direction." - Sullivan’s law
"I think you should pay for your own mortgage, birth control, college loans, food and cell phones. This isn't because I'm Conservative. It's because l'm an adult." - Unknown
"Libertarians believe the 'free market' will magically stop Communists. Anti-Communists understand Communists will use both the State and corporations to coerce and purge all non-Communists. Policies must be intentionally designed to be anti-Communist." - Unknown
I love libertarianism. I used to be one. Letting each individual pursue their own self-interest and self-govern is my idea of utopia. For lots of reasons, libertarianism makes sense.
"I've never understood the political fear of Libertarians. Sure, they're not in power now, but someday they might take over and... uh, leave you alone, I guess, since that's kind of their whole deal. It's like being afraid of cats." - Edward Snowden
"There are generally two kinds of people in the world:
1) Those that want power over others, and
2) Those that just want to be left alone." - Unknown
America used to be far more libertarian than it is today. The poor were still provided for, and starvation was extremely rare despite much lower taxes and no organized welfare system.
"Those of libertarian bent often prove more generous than those of a socialist persuasion: where the socialist feels that it is government's job to look after the poor using taxes, libertarians think it is their duty." - Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist
"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"So what you're saying is you wish to be 'left alone?' That will be the highest crime of all. You might as well fire off a flare announcing that you like to think for yourself. They'll drop on you worst of all." - Unknown
"They will never leave you alone. Why? Because you produce, they don't, and they need what you have. It's pretty simple, actually." - Unknown
The problem with libertarianism and the reason why America isn't libertarian anymore is it ignores a parasite class of people who have the overwhelming urge to meddle in the affairs of others. These people are far more organized, financed, and ruthless than the libertarians. People who want to be left alone lack the cohesive social fabric needed to defend each other's interests. Hermits don't go to the mat for other hermits. They just get picked off one by one.
"And that, gentlemen, is why libertarians will lead you to the same ****ty outcomes as leftists. Because they won't stand for any moral bounds of society, think everyone should be allowed to run around like animals. And when it gets so deranged and deprived, they just 'Go Galt' and abandon what they didn't have a spine to defend." - Unknown
c. Democracy
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"My four-year-old son asked why I was crying, and I told him I was sad about the death of our democracy. He looked up at me with his young, hope filled eyes and said, 'this is why mom is cheating on you, you absolute fucking loser.'" - @RobbySlowik
"Democracy is two foxes and a chicken arguing over what to have for dinner. A Republic is a very well-armed chicken." - Peter Schiff
"Please stop calling the U.S. a democracy. It's not a compliment. Democracies appeal to the tyranny of the majority. The U.S. ought to strive for a democracy index of zero. We're supposed to be a constitutionally limited republic. When a simple majority can vote themselves a fiat santa candidate, democracy is just another word for lawlessness." - Unknown
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does not good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." - Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
"The word Democracy is never mentioned in either the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence." - Unknown
"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny." - Aristotle
"Democracy is just a polite name for dictatorship." - George Orwell
"Western 'liberal democracies' are just totalitarian regimes with more money and better narrative management." - Caitlin Johnstone
"Eventually all democracies die, and usually by suicide." - Benjamin Franklin
"The average D voter would rather starve under FJB than prosper under DJT." - Unknown
"Leftists have low self-esteem, are defeatists, and hate themselves. They hate success and feel the groups they try to protect are inferior. They are overburdened by guilt over their natural drives and want to turn to issues of immorality." - Love Your Work Podcast
"Progressive Lessons in Reality 101: First assignment - Write 'weakness invites aggression' on the chalkboard 500 times. Lesson two will explore how voting with your feelings instead of facts can impact your neighborhood." - Unknown
"All modern leftists are pretty much the same. I lived with and studied them in their natural habitat (western NC) for four years, and now I know them better than they know themselves. It's why I make them so angry. Trust me on this one: You think they hate conservatives? They hate themselves even worse." - Unknown
"I was in college in the early 2000s. Let me tell you what I noticed about every 'Marxist' I met.
They were out of shape, had rich parents, and (most notably) had a highly inflated view of their own intelligence. They read the Manifesto and thought that made them smarter than everyone because they thought they understood parts of it. Soft, entitled, semi-literate brats." - Unknown
"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." -George Orwell
"Is it strange that my interests align with the media, big tech, big government, the wealthy elite, and big pharma? No, that's a coincidence. I'm anti-establishment. - The Left" - Unknown
"If you don't trust a room full of 5-year-olds to behave properly... wait till you see what a room full of leftists will behave if they think no one will call them out. These people do not respect anything about you... stop acting like they might." - Unknown
"if you want to test a person's character, give them power." - Unknown
"When Republicans win, they hold office; when Democrats win, they hold power"
"Keep voting Democrat ... One day they will restrict your freedoms, restrict your history and restrict your safety. All in the name of professional victims that don’t understand the consequences of their ignorance.” - Ronald Reagan
"The dumbest thing about believing foreign countries attacked American democracy is believing America has any democracy to attack." - Unknown
"If you can’t get rid of the people who govern you, you don’t live in a democratic system." - Tony Benn
"Let his days be few; and let another take his office." - Psalms 109:8 KJV
d. Socialism
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I’ve often wondered why liberals are referred to as the left and conservatives as the right. Then I found this Bible verse:
" A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left." - Ecclesiastes 10:2 KJV
"The dominant characteristic here is remaining loyal to the group – even when the policy is working badly and its consequences disturb the conscience of members. Loyalty to the group becomes the highest form of morality. That loyalty requires each member to avoid raising controversial issues, questioning weak arguments, or calling a halt to wishful thinking." - Unknown
"I think the 'locusts' in the book of Revelation wasn't the insect. It's liberals/democrats/progressives. Everything they touch is destroyed." - Unknown
"Sub-humans are attempting to devolve humanity into the animal kingdom, specifically the spirit-less, soul-less insect kingdom. Only by awakening to this battle plan can the war be won. It takes a great stride of humanity to see this evil because humans do not 'think' this way and generally cannot conceive of such evil being created by other humans. But it is not humans who have created and implemented this de-evolution, it is the semblance of human-like beings who wage this war." - Rudolf Steiner, The Locust People
"Hive-Mind does not think. Hive-Mind Feels. And Believes. And Belongs. And Follows. And is Brave. Information not blessed by the Hive-Lords is Not-Hive. Not-Hive is Enemy. Must... Destroy... Enemy. We already have a word for followers of Hive-Mind. They are called Insects." - Unknown
"What Kafka got right is everyone's super-busy but nothing gets done. In Kafka's novel The Castle, the bureaucracy toiling unseen in the Castle is bustling 24/7, but nothing actually gets done in the impoverished village below. Attempts to reach the bureaucracy by phone are futile, as calls are only picked up randomly or as pranks." - Unknown
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.” - Ludwig von Mises
"Capitalism = Make / Socialism = Take
Conservative values build empires / Liberal values destroy empires
"Socialism doesn't get the groceries or cook - it only eats." - Unknown
"European social democracies amassed huge welfare systems in the last 30 years because they relied on someone else for security (USA), someone else for manufacturing (China), and someone else for cheap commodities (Russia). What do you think will happen to this model without all of it?" - Unknown
"The goal of socialism is communism.” – Vladimir Lenin
"What did I learn? Well, I finished first but we all got the same trophy. So I guess next time I won't be the idiot who works so hard." - Unknown
"'Real Socialism' has never been tried in the same way that 'Real Capitalism' has never been tried. The difference is 'almost Socialism' resulted in the impoverishment & death of hundreds of millions of people. While 'Almost Capitalism' has lifted billions from absolute poverty." - Unknown
"Socialism is not about the environment. It's not about justice. It's not about virtue. Socialism is about only one thing: Power for the ruling class" - Donald J. Trump
"Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the redistributers ... if we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to conquer Socialism" - Unknown
"Leftists' tolerance for the consequences of their voting is directly correlated to their distance from it." - Unknown
"The Democrats believed in flooding the system, create chaos, grab power, and accuse your opponent of misbehavior... this is the ideology of two marxist professors - Cloward and Piven." - Unknown
"When you don't have logic or reason on your side, use power. If you don't have enough power, flood the system to acquire more." - Cloward and Piven Strategy
"Standard Operating Procedure for Progressive Socialists:
1) Advertise
2) Propagandize
3) Coercion
4) Terrorize
5) Euthanize" - Unknown
"A government GAINS power through its FAILURES." - Unknown
"1990's .com boom / 2020's .gov boom" - Unknown
"The Bureaucrat's credo - I cause change; therefore, I am." - Unknown
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy." – Kafka
"It seems like everyone that I know in blue states has turned into some kind of social worker..." - Unknown
"HALF the population of New Mexico is on some form of welfare; typically EBT cards/WIC, Medicaid and Section 8 housing. It should also be noted that 51% of the population is Hispanic, 35% white and 12% Native American - most of whom live on Reservations. It's effectively a Social Welfare State...with the lowest ranking for education quality in the country every year." - Unknown
”If welfare worked, in 1970, there would be less of it by now. Not an ever increasing amount. Einstein had something to say about doing the same thing...” - Unknown
"These states are subsidizing poverty. Subsidize something and you will get more of it." - Unknown
"Leftists thrive on crisis but die out during collapse." - Natural News
"Stop calling them progressives, they are Marxists." - Unknown
"Inside every liberal, there is a fascist trying to get out." - Unknown
"Interesting how every major Democrat policy proposal is designed to make it so they can have more political power without having to persuade any more Americans:
- Oh, we're not winning the Senate? Add more seats
- Oh, we have a minority on the Supreme Court? Add more seats
- Oh, there are states with voter IDs? Use a federal law to overturn those requirements and then cheat." - Unknown
"What the Left conferred on America:
- Impeachment once, twice, and more still is a good thing. Better still, it is to try a president even as a private citizen.
- Special counsels are wonderful—all the more so if they have nearly two years and $40 million to hire a dream team of partisan lawyers.
- A good attorney general is a president’s “wingman” who uses the law to go after enemies and exempt friends and families from the law, while using indictments to pave the way for reelection.
- Lawfare is a legitimate tool of the president, especially when targeting a rival threat to his reelection.
- High office is a path to riches. Selling your name for tens of millions of dollars is not only legitimate, but a necessary perk of the vice presidency and presidency.
- The FBI, the Pentagon, the CIA, the Justice Department, and the IRS are underused assets. With the right mindset and willpower, all are vital tools in neutering your political enemies.
- The media is utterly corrupt. What it covers and what it omits are entirely political decisions and thus can be warped accordingly by government rewards and punishments." - Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,
"The Dem's iron-clad lineage:
Slavery / Confederacy / KKK
Federal Reserve
WW1 / WW2
Jim Crow
Nuclear war / Korean war / Vietnam" - Unknown
"Democrat Translations:
Bail reform -> way more crime
Conspiracy theory -> spoiler alert
Disinformation ->dissent
Domestic terrorist ->soccer mom
Equity ->racism
Gender affirming care -> mutilate kids
Immigrants welcome here -> immigrants not welcome here
Inflation reduction act -> more inflation
Most secure election -> rigged
Mostly peaceful ->violent
Reproductive care -> abort babies
Safe & effective ->myocarditis
Secure border ->open border
Threat to democracy ->threat to Democrat power" - Unknown
"The logo of the Fabian Society, a tortoise, represented the group's predilection for a slow, imperceptible transition to socialism, while its coat of arms, a 'wolf in sheep's clothing', represented its preferred methodology for achieving its goal." - Unknown
"But the general idea is that each man should have power according to his knowledge and capacity. [...] And the keynote is that of my fairy State: From every man according to his capacity; to every man according to his needs. A democratic Socialism, controlled by majority votes, guided by numbers, can never succeed; a truly aristocratic Socialism, controlled by duty, guided by wisdom, is the next step upwards in civilisation." — Annie Besant, a Fabian Society member and later president of Indian National Congress
"All I'm saying is that the difference between humans and animals is that animals would never allow the dumbest of the herd to lead them." - Unknown
Polenzi Durak = Useful Idiot
”A new study finds that people who believe the Left's Bull Shit are 7x more retarded than previously thought.” - Unknown
"The deliberate dumbing down of McMerica may involve some harsh consequences going forward." - Unknown
"Ineptocracy is a system of government where the least capable of leading are elected by the least capable of producing, where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed are rewarded w goods & services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers." - Unknown
"Narrator : As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species." - Idiocracy movie intro
"I've never seen a sci-fi comedy change genre to a documentary to then change genre again to a horror movie." - Unknown
"Aristotle theorized aristocracy as 'The Rule of the Best' an impossible ideal, but we have many examples of its opposite: The Rule of the worst -> Cocytarchy: Rule of the Damned" - Unknown
"If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of." - Unknown
"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times." - Unknown
"The bottom line is that societies arise from poverty through moral strength—and that brings them prosperity. But that prosperity brings on arrogance, and the arrogance brings on laziness, which brings on weakness and moral decline. Then they're reduced to a condition of slavery and poverty again. Change is the only constant - except in human nature." - Unknown
"First, the multitude builds a prosperous and confident nation. Then people become selfish, immoral, and complacent. The moral breakdown leads to chaos and, ultimately, to slavery. Only after great suffering will a few courageous individuals free society from slavery, and the cycle will repeat again." - Unknown
"Tyrants are well aware of these cycles, and a plethora of inversion techniques have been perfected over these cycles to control the masses. Disasters are created to cause public fear, and when people are afraid they're easy to exploit. They view crisis events as useful for furthering centralization. The first cure for a poorly run country is currency inflation; the second is war. Both result in short-term success and long-term destruction. Yet political and economic opportunists seek sanctuary in both." - Unknown
"There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.” - Ludwig von Mises
"Why do they put so many morons in positions of power? Because if they can get you to see because it's bloody obvious that a moron is telling you to do something and you still do it knowing they're moronic, they got your self-respect." - David Icke
"'When you are smart, appear retarded.' - Sun Tzu
"On second thought, I think they are just retarded." - Unknown
"They always choose the least capable, most destructive person....The goal has changed. The goal is no longer making the future better....The goal is exactly the opposite, to degrade, to tear down, to get the least capable...aggressively pushed to the very top of society...This is civilizational suicide." - Tucker Carlson
"Remember that in 1984 the daily, constant, never-ending contradictions were not the result of 'incompetent leaders' but intentional psychological warfare intent on breaking your will and spirit." - Unknown
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*ck things up." - Barrack Obama
"'I poked the Bear and lost... How do I win? Oh, I know. I'll poke the Dragon now.' - Bidet" - Unknown, on Bear shifting focus from provoking Russia to provoking China
"The Reverse Midas touch. Everything touched by Biden turns into sh*t!" - Unknown
"President Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built, not even one meter of the wall, and, we thank you for that, sir." - President Obrador of Mexico
"The average Democrat knows the Biden family is profoundly corrupt and they simply don’t care…. Sam Harris spoke for all of them when he said it wouldn’t matter if Hunter’s laptop was packed w/pictures of dead kids.” - MartyrMade on Twitter
"Government loves to play off that the system is incompetent. If it’s so incompetent how come it’s in control of everything? How does it always grow and grow and grow? People don’t even know the questions to ask. Done correctly you can't tell the difference between corruption and incompetence." - Unknown
"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The heaviest element ever created by colliding everything together is GOVERNMENTIUM. It has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 11 assistant deputy neutrons giving it an atomic weight of 312. And these 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are assisted by a vast number of peons. But since Governmentium has no electrons it is inert, but it can easily be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of governmentium causes any reaction to take weeks to complete when it would usually happen in less than a second! Governmentium has a half-life of four years, but it does not decay, but instead undergoes a re-organization in which the assitant neutrons and the deputy neutrons simply change places. In fact, Governmentium will actually increase in mass since each re-organization will cause some morons to become neutrons forming isodopes. Some scientists speculate that governmentium can be formed whenever enough morons concentrate into a Critical Morass." - Author Unknown
"And the inevitable consequences of the collapse is that woke dies. Companies built on woke die. Leftist organizations who can't exist without support from the gov die. The welfare system ends and the cities burn. It can't happen soon enough." - Unknown
e. Communism/Totalitarianism
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"Know the outcome and you'll see the journey. Totalitarian tiptoe." - David Icke
"You already know what the destination looks like. You have seen it: Totalitarian USSR, Totalitarian Germany, Totalitarian China, Cuba, Cambodia. It is a playbook that has been around for millennia. There is nothing particularly new about Marxism in that regard." - Unknown
"#Brussels is creating an Orwellian world in front of our eyes. They buy and supply weapons through the #EuropeanPeaceFacility. They want to control the media through the #MediaFreedomAct. We didn't fight the communists to end up in 1984!" -@PM_ViktorOrban
"Not once in the entire history of homo sapiens has a centralized system (fascist, Bolshevik, communist or socialist) ever brought an ounce of sustainable good to the world." - Unknown
"Dear diary: It is very difficult to peacefully remove a communist regime." - Twitter, revelation17_14
"Two men are in line waiting to buy vodka. An hour goes by, then two, and the line barely moves. Everyone is in a terrible mood. Finally, one of the men can’t take it any longer. 'This is it! I’m sick of this kind of life. Everywhere there are lines, you cannot buy anything, and the store shelves are empty. I’ve had enough. I’m going to the Kremlin right now to assassinate him.' The man returns after two hours, still angry, and says, 'To hell with it! At the Kremlin the line to assassinate Gorbachev is longer than this one.'" - Unknown
"This man enters a shop, where there's nothing except white tiles on the walls, an empty sales counter, a cashier and some bare shelves. The man asks one of the clerks: 'You guys have no meat in this shop?'
shop worker answers: 'Nah; we have no bread here. No meat you find in the shop one block down the road.'" - Unknown
"I can't impart it to anybody who hasn't been there. Standing in the security line in the airport. If you want to know what it's like to be in the Soviet Union, you are in the Soviet Union. In that moment, you are in the Soviet Union. You're in a line waiting for something, and at the end of that line, a lot of bad things can happen to you. People don't think that way. But in reality though...” – Simon Mikhailovich
“For Americans, the car is the American way. Jay Gatsby roars through capitalism, individual freedom, and the good life. For China, the train is the metaphor. Everyone's on board, there's no chance to steer, and it's clickety-clack to collectivism's dreams.” ― Mei Fong, One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
"The degree to which you oppose free speech is the degree to which you're a fascist.
The degree to which you oppose free markets is the degree to which you're a communist.
The degree to which you oppose both is the degree to which you're a totalitarian." - Unknown
"A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud." ~ George Orwell
"Communism is when ugly deformed freaks make it illegal to be normal then rob and/or kill all successful people out of petty resentment and cruelty. The ideology is all just window dressing." - Mystery Grove Publishing Co.
"Communism considers morality to be relative, to be a class matter. Depending upon...the political situation, any act, including murder, even the killing of hundreds of thousands, could be good or could be bad. It all depends upon class ideology. And who defines this ideology?" - Unknown
"Summed up in a single sentence, the plans of the communists aim at the abolition of private property. From there, other major demands follow, such as abolishing the family, nation, and countries, and finally, as Marx noted, 'communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality.' In as much as the program of liberalism 'if condensed into a single word….is private ownership of the means of production' (as described by Ludwig von Mises), the program of the communists is the abolition of private property." - Unknown
"Fascism, Nazism, Commmunism, and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme - collectivism." - Ayn Rand
"You and others here, remind me of Gibbis from Doctor Who. He took a strange delight in being subjugated. You should read up on him: https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Gibbis
- All I want to do is go home and be conquered and oppressed. Is that too much to ask?
- Resistance is exhausting." - Unknown
"People are property to them; property of the collective, and people who are property cannot be allowed to make decisions without oversight. Try to walk away from us, and we’ll kill you." - Unknown
"Communism. That's exactly what it is. Your either one of them or you're a target. And they eat their own." - Unknown
"Imagine being so naive that you think the only path to totalitarianism is through government." - Unknown
"Types of Government over Time #1:
Constitutional republic
↓
Democracy
↓
Oligarchy. you are here
Types of Government over Time #2:
Oligarchs
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Lobbyists and the Fed
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Congress critters. ← what you posted. Two levels off.
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The battered serfs
The banking families are large and in charge, and I have no idea their exact numbers and locations." - Unknown
"1) Healthcare– Control healthcare, and you control the people
2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible. Poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you provide everything for them to live.
3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way, you can increase taxes, producing more poverty.
4) Gun Control– Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way, you can create a police state.
5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income)
6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to and what children learn in school.
7) Religion – Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools
8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent, and it will be easier to take (Tax) the rich with the support of the poor" - Saul Alinsky paraphrased
"How to do communism:
1) Establish a new communist utopia
2) Rob or kill the successful
3) Force the rest to work for free
4) Run out of food
5) Starve to death
6) Say it wasn't 'real' communism
7) Go back to step 1)" - Unknown
"This is why the Left, every time it comes into power in a country—be it the Soviets in Russia, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, or the Red Guard in China—sets out on a campaign of exterminationist violence." - Unknown
"Totalitarianism arises not because humans want to oppress others gratuitously but because they believe so fervidly in their cause's righteousness that they are willing to break the eggs of freedom to make the omelet of social justice." - Unknown
"We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.” ~ Karl Marx
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell, Animal Farm
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth, luxury, long life, or happiness; only power, pure power…." - Unknown
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy." - WEF Ad.
"We will own everything and never be happy." - Unknown, corollary to WEF ad above.
"Translation: We are stealing everything and will remove you if you resist." - Unknown
"The positive significance of Bolshevism may be that having removed the mask and showed everyone Satan in his undisguised form, he led many through confidence in the reality of Satan to faith in God." - Nikolay Trubetskoy, 'We and Others', Eurasian Times, Berlin, 1925
f. Corporatism/Fascism
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A fasces is a bundle of sticks wrapped together around an axe. It is symbolic because a single stick bends or breaks. But multiple sticks tightly bound are as hard as a solid piece of wood. Also is consistent with the motto SPQR - Unity is Strength of the Roman Empire. Fasces are present on the American dime, the statue of Lincoln at his memorial, and throughout the Capitol Building. The term 'fascism' itself is derived from the word 'fasces.' The fasces became the most well-known symbol of fascist Italy, and, thus of fascism itself. Nazi groups today use the symbol as well.
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." - Benito Mussolini
"Political Capitalism - an economic and political system in which the economic and political elite cooperate for their mutual benefit, and in which the profitability of business is determined by political connections rather than by the satisfaction of consumer preferences." - Unknown
"All within the state. Nothing outside the state." - Mussolini
"Casino Capitalism. Socialize the risk. Privatize the profit. Better known as fascism." - Unknown
"Public/Private Partnership aka Fascism" - Unknown
"Fascism never died. It just renamed itself progressivism." - Unknown
"A final way in which government helps psychopaths become CEOs is because the government has created a nauseatingly politically correct environment in which any honest person who is in touch with reality would have to become an actor and hide his disgust with such fascism. In contrast, a psychopath is already an excellent actor and doesn't care about reality or integrity and enjoys saying whatever manipulates others into believing him and rewarding him. The Socialist government has therefore given a considerable advantage to the psychopath in the business world — and blamed it on capitalism! The solution is not to give the government more power over the business world but to give it less." - Unknown
"Never risk your life for your minimum wage employer.” - Wise Living Person on why one should not stop store thefts when woke companies will fire them for doing so
"Currently, the left is leveraging private companies to do their bidding, rather than taking over the companies, so Fascism fits just fine. Once the left starts stealing companies, we can shift to some nuanced version of Communism." - Unknown
"Complex ideologies lead to communism. Repressing nationalism leads to fascism." - Unknown
"Communism and fascism - Rule by technocratic single party elites controlling people through propaganda and terror." - Unknown
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