Not really, but I'll do it anyway. I pretty much said my piece on "Bushes Secret Plan" last week.
This must have been what the "Good Germans" of the Weimar Republic went through.
Say, this seems as good a place as any to key this in, since nobody but you and I will read it on a thread like this. My trench-digging co-worker ripped a page out of one of his books and brought it to me...thought I'd like it. I do. You meet the nicest sort of people in the trenches ;-)
"Reason and experiment have been indulged, and error has fled before them. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men, men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity.
But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than face and stature. Introduce the bed of Procrustes then, and as there is danger that the large men may beat the small, make us all of a size, by lopping the former and stretching the latter...
Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the world."
--Thomas Jefferson,. Notes on Virginia