{"id":4239,"date":"2019-01-04T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2019-01-04T16:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T16:16:41","slug":"america-founded-animal-farm-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/04\/america-founded-animal-farm-will\/","title":{"rendered":"America as founded or Animal Farm. Which will it be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em><strong>It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody\u2019s permission or to obey anybody\u2019s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/18-hayek-quotes-that-show-the-importance-of-liberty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friedrich August von Hayek<\/a>, (1899-1992)<\/cite><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>All government is authoritarian; and the more democratic a government is the more authoritative it is; for with the people behind it, it can push authority further than\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>any Tsar or foreign despot dare do.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><em><strong><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-01-13\/what-geniuses-come-believe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/cite><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cGood intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men (and women) in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Daniel Webster<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cFreedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Ronald Reagan<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cOne of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Thomas B. Reed<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<em><strong>Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Arcesilaus, Greek philosopher and student of Plato<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda \u2013 a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make \u2018good\u2019 citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>H.L. Mencken<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cAs the old saying goes, &#8216;money is power&#8217; and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Author Angela McGlowan<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<footer>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cThere is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism \u2013 by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Ayn Rand, in the L.A. 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