05-08-2017, 12:33 PM
(05-06-2017, 04:53 AM)Galen Wrote:(05-05-2017, 08:10 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(05-05-2017, 07:27 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If we are fortunate we will get a replay of 1776 in America.
Where property owners destroyed and replaced the state? We should be so lucky.
Indeed, they created possibly a society with more freedom for the individual than has ever been seen before. Unfortunately it didn't stay that way.
Hunger, exposure, ignorance. and gross exploitation are not freedom.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.