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Is Paris Hilton Now On Slippery Slope To Trashy?
Is Bishop Gene Robinson's gay-loving Episcopal Church on Slippery Slope to Sacrilege?
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Posted on 06/22/2010 5:20:43 AM PDT by Dudoight
When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics. Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they were particularly susceptible to Hitler's rhetoric and had far less basis for questioning his assumptions or his conclusions. "Useful idiots" was the term supposedly coined by V.I. Lenin to describe similarly unthinking supporters of his dictatorship in the Soviet Union.
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Plagiarizing myself:
This fight is very old in America.
Strenuous efforts to keep the Government OUT of schools and to assure a free, objective and unbiased media (or at least, a functional moral counter) are absolute requirements if you would avoid tyranny. Failing in these two, it doesn’t matter what else you do right because it won’t matter. We are finding that out right now.
Unfortunately for the last several decades, the US relaxed its guard against both of these preconditions to tyranny and now we (I almost hate to say it) got what we deserve.
If “O” did not come along to yank Liberal Americans out of their social/political brand X status, some other equally manipulative and opportunistic person would have suited DNC purposes. “O” takes radical populism uptown and calls it ‘hope and change’. Guys like “O” are thick on the ground in America, nowadays… it’s time for Conservatives to take the gloves off!!
I blame Conservatives who should have seen this coming way back!
Maybe 40%+ in this country want democracy dismantled. Sure seems like it.
Excellent article. The issue is not whether the people of the Gulf Coast deserve compensation, but the method der Fuhrer Hussein 0bama has decreed that BP will pay it and how much it pays. He has appointed another Czar to decide how much each claimant receives of the BP slush fund. Is this the work of a democracy?
Who isn’t aware of the culture war that’s been going on these many scores?
We’ve lost the battle this time.
“The issue is not whether the people of the Gulf Coast deserve compensation, but the method der Fuhrer Hussein 0bama has decreed that BP will pay it and how much it pays.”
Constitution? We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution!
From the polls it’s more like 47%.
You’re right, and “O” is working hard to delegitimize Conservatism and America’s two party system.
With the blind and unstinting assistance of the MSM, and the NEA, Conservatism will be made extinct…but not before Liberals render it abjectly absurd and asinine…. If nothing else, Conservatives can easily withstand THIS trend and yet have consistently permitted themselves to be made ridiculous throughout the MSM … and basically ANYWHERE Liberals feel that they can get away with casting gratuitous insults in our faces.
Tell me... is that how America is supposed to work? Is that the way ANY system purporting to be a republic is meant to work?
This is fresh and fertile ground for essential and justifiable challenges to the kind of ‘hope and change’ which this administration is steamrolling over fully half the country. How legitimate or necessary are ANY changes if they must be introduced by the most irregular means and against the conscience and will of over half the population???
The Road to Serfdom by Fredrick Hayek pretty much explains how to go from liberty to tyranny but too many people(who should know better) ignore this classic book.
Mr. Sowell’s observations are a little late to the party. Nonetheless, I have tremendous respect for him and his brilliant mind and welcome him to the table.
Agreed, and that Mr. Sowell has come to these conclusions is a sobering thought.
Too late, we are already there.
Depending on your view points went over this lip and started sliding in either 1861, 1901, or 1912. In any case, we’ve definitely been sliding downhill since FDR...
Freedom is always a generation away from extinction; don’t forget that.
For more questions that are equally compelling, we turn to:
Is Paris Hilton Now On Slippery Slope To Trashy?
Is Bishop Gene Robinson's gay-loving Episcopal Church on Slippery Slope to Sacrilege?
Is Television Now On Slippery Slope To Tackiness?
I am reminded of a comment I heard from a high school teacher after DumBO was elected: “All the kids are excited about getting free pot now.” When your reality is how much “free” stuff you’re going to get, there is no reason to question “who” is going to give it to you.
Well stated....it is OBVIOUS, isn’t it!
I hear you....it is incomprehensible.
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