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I've lived in one myself, I'd say they come in more than one flavor,and the Obama Fascist Brand is no more palatable in the long run than the rest. The idea is to not GET to the point where the US irreversably becomes a fully-fledged Socialist state. Right now I'd say even the dullest frogs in the pot should notice the water is beginning to boil. What the Dems are selling now as 'fair' and 'equal' is reminiscent Alexis de Tocqueville's reference to a 'depraved taste' for equality:
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality that incites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. Not that those nations whose social condition is democratic naturally despise liberty; on the contrary, they have an instinctive love of it. But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their desires; equality is their idol: they make rapid and sudden efforts to obtain liberty and, if they miss their aim, resign themselves to their disappointment; but nothing can satisfy them without equality, and they would rather perish than lose it.
Feb 20, 2012, 8:42:23 PM
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