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1 posted on 04/01/2025 3:09:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
The other day, Red Badger posted this below as a response to one of my comments. It definitely applies in this thread/discussion:

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.” ― George Orwell, 1984

2 posted on 04/01/2025 3:21:44 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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4 posted on 04/01/2025 4:28:13 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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It’s not socialism. It’s not capitalism. It’s not fascism. ...It’s Grifterism.

It's a good name. George Bush invented the Trifecta of globalism, socialism and crony capitalism. The globalists wanted to invade Iraq, and made common cause with the other two which is when and how the national debt exploded and how third raters got away with running a war that didn't have an objective and certainly didn't have a plan - not a positive objective any way. Getting rid of Saddam was not a positive objective - it just open the Pandora's box that Saddam's brutality was keeping the lid nailed on.

6 posted on 04/01/2025 6:35:04 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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ping
7 posted on 04/01/2025 6:45:26 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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Just look at California.

A patina of fun and decadence beneath which a one party state exploits the productive for the benefit of the parasites.


8 posted on 04/01/2025 7:18:37 PM PDT by Aeneas2112 (Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. Donald Trump)
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