Here We Go... Again?

Flopping Aces ^ | 05-02-21 | Just Plain Bill

[Who is John Galt?]

The following quotation is from a book which explores the parallels between modern America and pre-WW2 Germany:

“The American people may oppose the nation’s present course, but by themselves the people cannot change it. They may oppose the taxes and the bureaucrats, but these are merely consequences, which cannot be significantly cut back so long as their source is untouched. The people may curse ‘big government’ in general – but to no avail if the pressure groups among them, following the logic of a mixed economy, continue to be fruitful and to multiply. The people may ‘swing to the right,’ but it is futile, if the leaders of the right are swinging to their own… brand of statism. The country may throw the rascals out, but it means nothing if the next administration is made of neo-rascals from the other party…”

“As government controls and the power of political pull have soared, many Americans have come to feel – some reluctantly, others righteously – that survival requires identification with a group, which can serve as one’s refuge in an uncertain world, one’s protector from the other groups, and one’s lobbyist in Washington. The easiest group to form or to join is one defined by race…”

“This is the emergence in the United States of the most primitive form of collectivism, the form endemic to backward cultures (and to controlled economies): tribal racism. Racism is what takes over anywhere – wherever the knowledge of the nature and possibilities of man, man the individual, has not yet been grasped, or is being battered into oblivion.”

Leonard Peikoff, THE OMINOUS PARALLELS - The End of Freedom in America, 1982

[Nachoman]

Thanks for the correction. I should never try to post anything from memory.

[jmacusa]

No biggie. Yeah, my data banks get mixed up too.

Old age creeping in I guess.

[The Mayor]

History repeats if you don’t teach history