[P-Marlowe]

We are living under a totalitarian dictatorship.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Jacquerie]

We are living under a totalitarian dictatorship.

Hmm, how can that be? How can a dictator exist in a democracy? Won't the people vote to remove dictators? We elect both houses of congress, and the president usually garners a majority of the votes. The people vote every two years. We are told democracy is swell . . . keep the world safe for democracy, expand voter rolls, etc. How did this happen? Do a majority of the people support despotism?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

AUTHOR: Sir John Harrington (1561–1612)

QUOTATION: Treason doth never prosper: what ’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

http://www.bartleby.com/100/134.1.html