"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison, 1788
As the USA is destroyed from within, exactly as the original founders of the country warned, it is important to announce that some of its citizens did protest. Most citizens DID NOT protest, being too ignorant and preoccupied to even know there was a problem, exactly as the usurpers had planned. The struggle to maintain their own everyday comfort is the only thing most Americans can see as they are sold into slavery by their own so-called representatives and public servants.
It's not just me noticing. Others have foreseen this woeful turn of events:
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." -- Patrick Henry
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." -- James Madison
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -- Samuel Adams
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine
They say that the mind forgets before the imagination remembers. It is utterly shocking how our forefathers seen this coming. Now we are in the clutches of collapse; past the point of no return. Yet, here we sit. A life of lies helps keep us complacent. A life of self induced delusions helps keep us placid. Meanwhile, our ideals swirl around a flushing toilet bowl.
ReplyDeleteEverything our forefathers died to give us; yet here we are, just flushing it all away.
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We are just flushing it all away.
As in any con-game, it takes two to tango. Yes, we the victims can be blamed for being too stupid, too gullible, too empty-minded, and too distracted to understand how we are being manipulated, but that is only a small part of the story. The bigger part is the con-artists that have dumbed us down, deceived us, and distracted us to make it easier to manipulate us. So it's partially us flushing it all away, but it's mostly them (the con-artists) stealing us blind.
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