To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to eacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.
-- James Bovard (1956), _Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen_ (1999)
Father: You see, son, we live in a liberal democratic society. The Democrats created sexual harassment law, which tells us what we can and cannot say in the workplace, anwhat we can and cannot do in the workplace.
Kyle: But isn’t that fascism?
Father: No, because we don’t call it fascism. -- From a few years ago on South Park
Socialism seeks to appeal to the common man through envy, it appeals to the statesman and the aspiring statesman through the lust for power, it appeals to the academic and the intellectual with the promise of patronage (he no longer has to strive to produce within the "vulgar" free market that does not appreciate his ability, and that reduces everything to a matter of practical value). It keeps everyone else in line with guilt or force.
--a New Yorker
Whenever I hear the Left speak, I am reminded of the old adage: “If your cause relies on fighting a particular enemy, it’s not in your interest to let that enemy die.--speech by Marine Marechal-Le Pen in French Assemblee Nationale 26 Jan. 2017
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