[Fred Douglass]

.......what America has done to itself conforms (as someone on this site pointed out) EXACTLY to Norman Thomas' prediction that Americans "will never knowingly adopt Socialism", but will install it incrementally under the name of "Lliberalism".

In a SEEMINGLY coordinated and planned, generations-long effort, liberals have destroyed public education (see the 19th-century 8th-grade exam cited above on the CC site), erased our common historical knowledge, eliminated much of our capacity to act as individuals, discouraged free speech in an Orwellian campaign to ban "certain words" (remember, word-choice=concious thought), regulated us mercilessly, and perpetuated (encouraged, in fact) a general ignorance and fear.

Liberals are utopians. Utopians have no concept of reality (especially of human nature). Their schemes are like vampires----they cannot stand the bright sunlight of close scrutiny. When logic and courage provokes someone to stand up and shout "Fire!" (or better yet "fire 'em!"), they are attacked. Witness the plight of conservative speakers on our college campusses.

With an ignorant, myopic and fearful populace cowering at the prospect of violating some government edict, liberals feel more and more "encouraged" to usurp freedom. The masses are encouraged to see government as their protector. A people who lack even a casual knowledge of history know little of what they are missing. Similarly, they do not understand, that most human misery has historically been caused by government and ideology, over the ages.

So where does that leave the US? Simply doing EXACTLY what Putin warns against. How can ANYONE, with even a smattering of international history under his cranial belt, EVER assume that, just because utopians are enemies of individuality and just because socialism has NEVER worked anywhere or at any time it has been implemented---how can they assume that it will work here? (Einstein's famous quote is cited here also).

We are doomed, laden with an ever-more-ignorant populace, to vote ourselves into the situation of the Roman (and medieval) "clientii", grovelling at the feet of the great "patronii". For every passably-intelligent, educated individualist, there will be two self-pitying, envious goobers, expecting the Great Government to give them a larger share of
those benefits created by their more able peers.

Obama's been in orifice about a MONTH, and already that statist puke has linked up with the socialistas in Congress to MORTGAGE (microcosm/macrocosm, eh?) America's future generations FOREVER. Wait 'til our great-grandchildren write the history of the "Boomers". Boy, will they do it with love and gratitude!

As someone on this site said, "Boy are we screwed!". Only the Russians (and the Chinese) seem capable of warning us of our folly. We don't seem to have the capacity to understand it. Liberals are absolutely dependent on that incapacity in order to keep their hands on political power (which, after all is their ONLY mission).

Love,