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To: lentulusgracchus
The "government" becomes the People and displaces the People from sovereignty and the possession of sovereign rights, and the People become just ants for the government to step on, as it invincibly exercises all power and all right.

Wow, you've just exposed the blueprint for the next 4-8 years (or however long it takes to establish the 'change' we're about to inherit). I can't understand why the media are willing to don short-shorts and pom poms?

67 posted on 11/23/2008 10:45:44 AM PST by budwiesest (Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Liberals : 0 for 3.)
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To: budwiesest
I can't understand why the media are willing to don short-shorts and pom poms?

Ink-stained wretches are traditionally low-status and little trusted.

1. They're social climbing.

2. They've been miseducated by doctrinaire Leftists in the schools and colleges.

3. They hate us.

4. They think they'll do better as elements of Minitrue under a totalitarian regime that values their word skills for the dark power they bring as servants of the One Ring. (Sorry, J.R.R. Tolkien fans.) In America, they're no better than the rest of us, an idea their egos hate. They'd rather help rule in Hell than serve in heaven-on-earth.

79 posted on 11/23/2008 11:46:10 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: budwiesest
Thanx for the kind words, btw .... and I would add that it's ironic that both Communism and Jeffersonian constructions of sovereignty share the same intellectual heritage, down to a point.

The People are the Sovereign, and the State exists to serve the best interests of the People, which are paramount. On that, Americans and doctrinaire Communists agree. But along the way, the Communists were hijacked by the exponents of vanguardism, which turned the power of the Communist movement, which flowed from its mass appeal to, and support by, the People, into the kind of nightmare that drove George Orwell literally out of his mind -- the stress of beholding this monster in all its ugliness eventually killed him. You might say that in that way, Orwell was an intellectual martyr for human freedom, rather like Nathan Hale and, under other circumstances, Giordano Bruno, who accepted death at the stake at the hands of the Inquisition rather than surrender his freedom of thought and speech.

Dig up and read the very recent column by David Brooks in The New York Times (should be dated the 19th or so) -- barf alert here -- about the kind of administration Barack Obama is putting together. See if you don't think it screams "vanguardism". Brooks certainly does.

Oh, and a bit of vocabulary -- "Enarch" refers to the French lords of government and industry, products of the Ecole Nationale (EN) system, which is like the entire Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Wharton, Chicago, and Georgetown all rolled into one. I've met an "Enarch" once -- and I recognized what he was and deliberately went out of my way to make his association with me an unpleasant one. Now he's probably a little anti-American weenie, lol.

84 posted on 11/24/2008 12:44:42 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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