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" Sure they vote—once the ticket has been presented to them. But how many of them have anything to do with nominating the candidates or writing the platforms? How many will actually take time out to work at it—or even to write their Congressmen? All too often in our history the vote has been simply a matter of choosing between two well-oiled machines. A sufficiently clever and determined group can take over a party, keep the name and the slogans and in a few years do a complete behind-the-scenes volte-face."

"It's still in process of happening, that's all. The lines today are drawn not by nations or parties, but by—philosophies, if you wish. Two views of man's destiny, cutting across all national, political, racial and religious lines."

"You might call them libertarian and totalitarian, though the latter don't necessarily think of themselves as such. The peak of rampant individualism was reached in the nineteenth century, legally speaking. Though in point of fact social pressure and custom were more strait-jacketing than most people today realize."

"In the twentieth century that social rigidity—in manners, morals, habits of thought—broke down. The emancipation of women, for instance, or the easy divorce or the laws about privacy. But at the same time legal control began tightening up again. Government took over more and more functions, taxes got steeper, the individual's life got more and more bound by regulations saying 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not."

January 1954

The Sensitive Man, by Poul William Anderson

....”how many of them have anything to do with nominating the candidates or writing the platforms?

.... How many will actually take time out to work at it—or even to write their Congressmen?

.... All too often in our history the vote has been simply a matter of choosing between two well-oiled machines. A sufficiently clever and determined group can take over a party, keep the name and the slogans and in a few years do a complete behind-the-scenes volte-face.”....

My response.... Well that is what we have now.....but we are no longer ‘a nation’ working for or guarding our freedoms as before. We have too many foreigners in political offcie, or with vast revenues, or both, whose desire is to completely change our nation into something else, and they are powerful and hungry to attain just that. That is what we are witnessing today.

They have infiltrated as well as been “invited” to participate in governing and therefore once they've attained an office of power they push 'their own agenda' which is not American but something else entirely... .... That is what we are contending with. The game has completely changed but many are still operating under the “old rules” because they've been blindsided and don't even know it!