Posted on 06/18/2015 7:48:10 PM PDT by cotton1706
"If they unite generally in all things, as much as they certainly will in respecting each other's wealth, birth, and parts, and conduct themselves with prudence, they will strengthen themselves by insensible degrees, by playing into each other's hands more wealth and popularity, until they become able to govern elections as they please, and rule the people at discretion.
An independent member will be their aversion; all their artifices will be employed to destroy his popularity among his constituents, and bring in a disciple of their own in his place."
- written in 1786. How little times change.
!! Very nice. But Adams could not have foreseen Zuckerberg.
Some here on FR would accuse him of waging class warfare.
The Uniparty circa 1786
Ah man! Now they’re going to attack John Adams as a lunatic clown car bereft of any moral sense.
Ah, you recognized it! I’m republishing Adams’ “Defence of the Constitutions” and am enjoying rereading it.
Times do change. But people don’t
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