Mayor Daley Says No Guns For Negroes!

Where I sit right now, I'm just about two and a half miles from the Illinois state line

Before you head back do be sure and let me know. It'd be a real pleasure to shake your hand and share a meal.

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Voting is not a right. It's an insidious rot foisted upon the unsuspecting which clothes theft and fraud and force in a veneer of structured civility.

Bingo. Heinlein put it well over 50 years ago:

“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a “warm body” democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction…. Once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome.” To Sail Beyond the Sunset Robert A.Heinlein

Or in our case the barbarians revolt from within.

Voting is not a right. It's an insidious rot foisted upon the unsuspecting which clothes theft and fraud and force in a veneer of structured civility.

Bingo. Heinlein put it well over 50 years ago:

“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a “warm body” democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction…. Once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome.” To Sail Beyond the Sunset Robert A.Heinlein

Or in our case the barbarians revolt from within.