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    SQUARE_ROOT
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    “If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want,
    it is big enough to take away everything you have.”

    FROM: If Elected by John F. Parker (page 193) year 1960 CE

    #2156425
    ☕️coffee addict
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    The problem is that the people that think that the government will give them everything they want won’t take away everything they have, they’ll only take away “from the rich”

    #2156529

    coffee, this is why democracy was not considered a viable system until recently. People with chochma need to establish guiderails for people to limit their collective greed.

    #2156599
    mentsch1
    Participant

    Always
    Or as was said 200 yrs ago
    Two centuries ago, a somewhat obscure Scotsman named Tytler made this profound observation: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.

    #2156640

    at the end, people are usually in charge: according to a Midrash, Pharaoh first resisted persecuting Jews but succumbed to popular pressure; Jews did not go to EY because of popular outcry; and Hitler, Stalin, and Putin depended on popular madness that they carefully cultivated.

    #2157121
    n0mesorah
    Participant

    Quick quote from your late night cable news channel:

    If you think that the big monster in the closet is scary, just imagine big monsters on capitol hill. Now go bed. Capitol hill is closed at night.

    #2157192
    ☕️coffee addict
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    Nomesorah,

    That’s only sometimes, sometimes they pass a bill in the middle of the night

    #2157238
    n0mesorah
    Participant

    TO: coffee addict
    I vanquished a troll!

    On those nights cable news channels modify their programming accordingly.

    FROM: n0mesorah
    Not yet worthy of a subtitle.

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