[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Bookmarked. Excellent, indeed! Just excellent.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Thanks for the ping, CIC, I will watch at home if the Internet connection cooperates!

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping; OUTSTANDING post Taxman.

Speaking of oligarchies, Lenin’s quote has merit given the current situation...

The supremacy of finance capital over all other forms of capital means the predominance of the rentier and of the financial oligarchy; it means that a small number of financially “powerful” states stand out among all the rest. The extent to which this process is going on may be judged from the statistics on emissions, i.e., the issue of all kinds of securities.

John T. Flynn may have also nailed the current situation down about 60 years ago, writing about socialist, FDR...

Chapter 4 - The New New Deal

In the beginning, of course, was Roosevelt. And then came the Brain Trust. After that we had the Great Man and the Brain Trust. The casual reader may suppose this is just a catch collection of syllables. But it is impossible to estimate the power these few words exercised upon the minds of the American people. After all, a crowd of big business boobies, a lot of butter­fingered politicians, two big halls full of shallow and stupid congressmen and senators had made a mess of America. That was the bill of goods sold to the American people. Now amidst the ruins appeared not a mere politician, not a crowd of tradesmen and bankers and congressmen, but a Great Man attended by a Brain Trust to bring understanding first and then order out of chaos.

Actually there are no big men in the sense in which Big Men are sold to the people. There are men who are bigger than others and a few who are wiser and more courageous and farseeing than these. But it is possible with the necessary pageantry and stage tricks to sell a fairly bright fellow to a nation as an authentic BIG Man. Actually this is developing into an art, if not a science. It takes a lot of radio, movie, newspaper and magazine work to do it, but it can be done.

[ForGod'sSake]

Most excellent video that is wonderful fodder for practicing Americans. Sad truth, most Dims, and certainly the Øbama devotés™ could care less, even if you could get 'em lucid long enough to watch it. Nonetheless, I have passed it along to the email list to punch up the troops.

I don't suppose it's like fingernails on a blackboard to anyone else around here when our "leaders" use the term democracy when describing our government??? Nah...

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Ping.