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To: Kaslin

Or we will get around to them...


6 posted on 03/17/2013 2:10:00 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: BigCinBigD
Or we will get around to them...

Somehow I doubt it.

Leftism is seductive. It preys on the emotions of people. Anger, hate, pity are it motivations.

Freedom and Liberty do not engender strong feelings until it is already gone. The reason Leftism workers so well in taking liberty is that people rarely get worked up about the loss of someone they don’t knows liberty.

The reason the US didn’t enter WW II until we were attacked was because it was someone else far away that was being attacked. The Nazis didn’t seem that bad. We didn’t know those people. The Left in this country are much the same but have learned many useful lessons from the Nazis’ failure. One big one is incrementalism. They do not try to take over the country in one fell swoop. They are taking the country inch by inch.

Most people today have no idea how much freedom they have lost in the last 90 years. People who do not study history (most today) have no notion of what has be surrendered to the Left.

The loss of small liberties tends not to provoke people to action; this is the Left’s big advantage. They always couch their restrictions on liberty in language that sounds benign and even helpful.

The Left also has strong allies in the press, the bar and academia. They are shaping the minds of our youth and building their goals in to case law.

It isn’t hopeless but we fighting them have a hard row to hoe.

11 posted on 03/17/2013 3:59:12 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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