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October 14, 2014

Little Hitlers

Dictatorship, or the urge toward it, is not confined to heads of government, indeed it probably lies lurking in all or most of us; nor is the worst stupidity the most obvious stupidity. If anything, the stupidity of the bright and well-educated is the worst, because the most self-confident. - - Dalrymple, The Despot Within

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 14, 2014 7:11 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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(para) "It's not that they're stupid, it's just that they KNOW so many things that are just not so!"

Posted by: CaptDMO [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 14, 2014 7:15 AM

The politicians are drawn from the well of the voting populace, thus, the populace gets the politicians it deserves.

Notice the last part of that sentence is lacking the word *voting*.

Politician actions should only effect those that vote.

If this was true I suspect the american political landscape would not resemble that of today.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 14, 2014 8:21 AM

The truth is even the intelligent man dreams of being a gangster and ruling over society by force--Albert Camus

Posted by: james wilson [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 14, 2014 8:55 AM

If we total up all the money spent since the FDR Presidency, on just National elections and step back and look at what in hell we have for all that money spent, I think saving the money and trying the next 4 to 8 years without a government would be an improvement.

535 Congress critters plus one fool in the White House would have to find gainful employment. All those staffers would have to move back home to Mom's basement. Lobbyists would have to back to work in hardware stores where they might do some good.

The Secret Service can go off whoring without worrying about someone complaining. Kids can go back to eating lunches they like.

The list goes on...

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 14, 2014 1:26 PM

The list goes on...

....starting with the sound of 200,000,000 backbones growing before your very eyes, in unison with 100,000,000 blown head gaskets frying in the open air of freedom, where one can do as he pleases and accept full responsibility for doing so.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 14, 2014 6:11 PM

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