{"id":563,"date":"2016-06-03T18:09:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T18:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/?p=563"},"modified":"2016-06-03T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T18:13:34","slug":"america-knew-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deepredpond.org\/index.php\/2016\/06\/03\/america-knew-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Is America as we knew it gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the good old U.S.A. has had a good run. Rush Limbaugh was quoted when Obama was elected in 2008 &#8220;I hope he fails&#8221;.\u00a0 Unfortunately\u00a0 The president has been successful&#8230; in transforming the country.<\/p>\n<p>Of course all this\u00a0was predicted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democracy&#8230; while it last is more bloody the either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never last long. It soon wastes, exhaust, and murders itself. There has never\u00a0 a democracy that didn&#8217;t commit suicide.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 John Adams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America will never be destroyed from outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms it&#8217;s because we destroyed ourselves&#8221;.\u00a0 A. Lincoln<\/p>\n<p>And a few quotes from the foreigner Alexis de Tocqueville<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the public&#8217;s money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible vale to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. \u00a0But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty. socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but they can be no doubt that such men do not run.&#8221;\u00a0 (some do, they&#8217;re just not chosen)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Americans are so enamored in equality, they would rather be equal in slavery then in freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday San Diego Ca.\u00a0the rights of Trump supporters to peacefully assemble was trampled upon the\u00a0&#8220;brown shirts&#8221;\u00a0 of the Democrat party partly inspired by the rhetoric of one Ms. Clinton and \u00a0encourage by the Mayor. &#8220;All means of protest short of MURDER is justified&#8221;. To the &#8220;Left&#8221; the end always justifies the means.<\/p>\n<p>We live in interesting and scary times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the good old U.S.A. has had a good run. Rush Limbaugh was quoted when Obama was elected in 2008 &#8220;I hope he fails&#8221;.\u00a0 Unfortunately\u00a0 The president has been successful&#8230; in transforming the country. Of course all this\u00a0was predicted. &#8220;Democracy&#8230; while it last is more bloody the either aristocracy or monarchy. 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