And yet, despite this warning and numerous others by writers far more influential, we continue down the road to serfdom. I’m beginning to believe it is the natural state of Man.
Jefferson was out of the country when the Constitution was written.
I am not surprised that his words seem so prescient as they were written in the wake of FDR’s New Deal. If more people read about that period in depth, they would be shocked by the level of government tyranny and deprivation of constitutional rights. It’s a period similar to today, with a horrible economy and vote-buying with government largesse.
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Thanks for posting this.
It won't be leaving my head anytime soon, especially since out time now seems to be a prelude to it happening here.
A significant part of history is the 1920’s through the 1950’s and the societal discussions of socialism and its various flavors of Communism and Marxism. People were very involved with those anti-liberty concepts, and many of our own leaders practiced it, such as FDR, a devout supporter of socialism. Some people tend to think socialism is all new, however, it was a concept fought against for decades. Ronald Reagan turned from a Democrat to a Republican over the institutional socialism the Democrats adopted. He knew back in the 1950’s the dangers of these socialists.
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I just bought mine. I had no idea anyone was fighting back in the Era of Roosevelt. I thought people just went along with the wage and price controls, and the stripping of their natural and property rights, because ‘Murica, “to defeat fascism”, and to make the world safe for Uncle Joe Stalin.