[Blennos]

“The only refuge left for those who prophesy the downfall of the State governments is the visionary supposition that the federal government may previously accumulate a military force for the projects of ambition. The reasonings contained in these papers must have been employed to little purpose indeed, if it could be necessary now to disprove the reality of this danger. That the people and the States should, for a sufficient period of time, elect an uninterrupted succession of men ready to betray both; that the traitors should, throughout this period, uniformly and systematically pursue some fixed plan for the extension of the military establishment; that the governments and the people of the States should silently and patiently behold the gathering storm, and continue to supply the materials, until it should be prepared to burst on their own heads, must appear to every one more like the incoherent dreams of a delirious jealousy, or the misjudged exaggerations of a counterfeit zeal, than like the sober apprehensions of genuine patriotism.

I had to read this carefully three times before I could begin to understand it.

[marktwain]

If you read the Madison quote carefully, you see that he is describing conditions of today’s society rather well.

What the founders did not forsee was the centralization of the media and its takeover by an ideology dedicated to advancing the power of the state, by any means necessary.

Decentralization of the old media power is the primary fight. It is accomplished by exposing their agenda, propaganda and lies. That is our fight, it is the fight that freerepublic does well. We have to win, because, as Ted Cruz says, we have nowhere to run to.