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July 18, 2016

A time for choosing....

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This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down—[up] man's old—old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. A TIME FOR CHOOSING 1964

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 18, 2016 10:47 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I expect that the gal on the right would like to "dump Trump" so she can eat him.

Posted by: Jack [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 19, 2016 6:55 AM

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