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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
BTK, right on.
Boomer, you are correct on the quote. And yes we are far down the path to dictatorship. If you are a reader of Karl Marx, you will see we are going step by step down that road. Tax the wealthy until they have nothing left, then inflate the currency until it is worthless, then the people are dependant on the government for everything. When that happens they will accept dictators. The are so many examples of it, even in recent history, that you would think people would know better. But everyone wants something for nothing. And so they vote for who ever they think will give it to them until there is nothing left.
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Well, HD,
That quote creeps me out every time I see it. And nobody seems to know how to get us back on track. That other quote I throw around is, "Unrestrained greed is not only bad morals, it's bad economics." I still can't find who said that first. But I don't think I did.
I have thought of posting a picture here of me dancing with W at the 2000 inauguration. A little Photoshop can be a lot of fun. I used to hang that picture behind my desk in my office and watch people do a double take. I had such hope. I am smiling in that picture.
And about what we read, I was a - oh how shall I say it - "a facilitator of discussion" of Orwell's
1984, actually it was in 1984. One of the things we did was to take a look around and pay attention to the things that were in our real world that were way too much like things in that work of fiction. And now, oh my, the list would be much longer than it was back then. That book would make an interesting book club discussion for our current time, although Orwell can get a little tedious in spots.
Like I have said before, this is Orwellian. This is surreal.
And where oh where is Thomas Paine when we need him?
Boomer
(And if I do not move this infernal computer out of the main part of my house where I can look in way too often, I will surely end up with just one big eye right in the middle of my forehead.)