"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
Thursday, July 21, 2016
It's Done.
The audience shouted "Yes you will, yes you will, yes you will." They want someone else to save them from the things under their beds. They want a dictator.
Once, we said "Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can." And, for the most part, we did.
He won't. He can't.
It's beyond cynicism, beyond stupidity, beyond brainwashing by the recently departed from Fox "news." It's total surrender. To lies, to hatred, to giving up on thinking, on reality, and, most especially, everything on which this country was founded.
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