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June 23, 2014
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In order to please the mass market, in politics as in trade, we must pile up the bodies in the mortuaries.Murder is at the root of all revolutionary zeal, and as Jefferson said, the tree of his new, revolutionary liberty “must be refreshed with blood.” (Even where there is outwardly no war: for I think of the blood of forty million North American babies, shed to refresh “the liberty of women.”) We have been piling them up for a century, on a scale not seen since Tamurlaine, all in the name of “the people” and “democracy.” Or as a Canadian sage liked to put it — the Nova Scotia Yankee, Thomas Chandler Haliburton — “vox populi, vox diabolus.”- - Essays in Idleness
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 23, 2014 7:57 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.