KISS=
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid
There is a purported corollary, Keep It Short and Sweet.
Three quotes from de Tocqueville complete the KISS:
- “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
- “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
- “I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”
The Reagan Wing is the only original thinking in the Renaissance Plan, whereas the balance of the plan is the distilled genius of the giants of history. The Koch brothers appear to be the best choices to effectively use the
"Reagan Wing." If true,
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."