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" ... After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. ... "
~ Alexis de Tocqueville |
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I certainly hope you aren't pointing that particular finger at just the Democrats.
Both of the major parties are equally guilty of chipping away at our freedoms. |
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I certainly hope you aren't pointing that particular finger at just the Democrats. Both of the major parties are equally guilty of chipping away at our freedoms. I agree. It's on all sides, but I do see the democrats starting to lose their footing a bit |
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Which only means that we are in store for a switch to the extreme opposite direction.
That's one of the problems with politics in this age. Everything is extreme one way or the other. The Dems are all about one set of " rules " and the Republicans are all about another. Nothing that is GOOD for the country as a whole gets done because neither side is willing to budge. |
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yep....it's like watching a tennis match sometimes
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"How many lights do you see, Picard? I tell you there are five lights. How many lights do you see? ... "There ... are ... FOUR ... lights!" ... "How many lights do you see, Picard"" ... Same principle ...
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