Posted on 03/03/2002 2:20:03 PM PST by The Raven
Speak for yourself.
Hmmm....it did lose steam, didn't it? Those quotes up top are Presidential material.
Ah, yes, the Court-packing incident.
Notice the timing? Right after FDR had been sworn in for his second term, which he'd won by a landslide. Nothing like a landslide to give a guy delusions of his own grandeur, eh? Remind anyone of Lyndon Johnson?
Talk about trying to use some of your political capital to buy yourself a big one!
What'd you call me?
Ya beat me to it.
States can always secede. Alaska is still thinking about it.
What kind of rights did you think I was talking about? Of course they could before the War(I don't care what some might believe). It was taught as a right in their textbooks as late as 1850
You're not a reactionary, George, you're an incendiary..;^)
We'd better learn to love Big Brother, I suppose. ;^)
In the middle of the show, the husband of the maid (portrayed by Whoopi Goldberg) made a comment that I felt related to this thread.
"You don't bite the hand that feeds you".
Isn't this the root of problems with our out-of-control government? Many people really see it this way. What they don't see is that they shouldn't live their live's dependent on handouts from the government in order to keep well-fed. The main reason the government wants to "feed you" is to keep you from biting !
As long as the government keeps the wolves away, the sheep are happy.
As long as the sheep think there are no wolves (even though there are, they are just dressed in sheep's clothing), they will blame all the mysterious death's on 'unknown' causes, and the sheeple are still happy.
When the government has to shear the sheep summer and winter, the sheeple won't complain, because again, the government is at least feeding them.
And some of the sheeple have noticed that there are wolves under that 'sheep-clothing' after all. But they won't say anything, because the wolves are providing the food (even if it is just to fatten the sheep up).
And some of the sheeple notice that there is a group of sheep that seems really WELL-FED. That is because those sheep gather together around the food, ignoring thinner sheep, and letting the wolves attack those unprotected sheep without reprise. And none says anything, because 'they' are alive and being well-fed.
.... Anyway, the point is that people develop these 'mindsets' whether they pick it up from parents or some peer group. Sometimes just from learning a 'cliche' and using it in a tight situation to rationalize behaviour. Then, each time a tight situation occurs, the brain follows the same pattern, reinforcing it deeper.Pretty soon, all the person can say is "bahhhhhhh..."
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