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To: Bob434

Yeah, funny, not much.

I wonder how many realize just how degenerate and dangerous this country has become? The quote on the front page of Epoch Times this morning was:

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” attributed to Samuel Johnson

No matter, it has been said by others and it is too true. One link at a time we have now been shackled.


10 posted on 08/28/2022 8:54:20 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Sequoyah101

“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” attributed to Samuel Johnson

Good and relevant quote- putting it in my profile page- thanks for posting it-


14 posted on 08/28/2022 9:01:17 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: Sequoyah101

here’ another pretty good analysis

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.

When people are forced to remain silent when they
are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself.

One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even
destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

Written by Theodore Dalrymple


16 posted on 08/28/2022 9:03:33 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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