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[fishinfool]

Well folks, it looks as if the commies are in power and we are in for the long haul. I certainly hope we elect some people who are able to rectify this socialist agenda that has been enacted.
It is definitely going to get interesting, to say the least.
Here are a few thoughts to ponder...

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

FF

[red_yakker]

Cool, Here are some more.

ARISTOTLE:
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

DOROTHY THOMPSON:
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

EUGENE V. DEBS:
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

HUBERT H. HUMPHREY:
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU:
The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

BERTRAND RUSSELL:
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

[dolphinatic]

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU:
The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I would have chimmed in on this one earlier, but I was out busting my ass all day working for rich people that got that way from busting their asses for years running their own business.

How is a capitalist society checked? Are we witnessing it now? I'm not financially rich, yet do not envy the ones that are. I don't even care if their $$$ was handed to them. Class envy between the rich and the poor is what feeds the core of socialism. I believe in a hard work ethic and can assure you that 98.3% of the poor in this nation are that way due to being lazy or just make bad decisions with their money. Here's the great thing about living in the USA......"life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness." We are not guaranteed or entitled to hapiness, but thank God we have the freedom to pursue it

Now, I'm going fishing.........

[Flint River Pirate]

Tom Wheeler, you are the man!

[Quixote]

ARISTOTLE:
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
He also believed that women were not fully human.

DOROTHY THOMPSON:
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
She also said: It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. She may have been on to something although not completly correct with this observation: "No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument [of] the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say 'Heil' to him, nor will they call him 'Führer' or 'Duce.' But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of 'O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!'" (1935)
EUGENE V. DEBS:
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
Debs?… Really? What the hell was he even talking about, the flat earth society, Bolshevism?
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY:
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Sounds about right

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU:
The forces of a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
An elitist from the start who, as is sadly typical, made his money or rather his father made the money in a capitalist economy, only to try and close the door behind him once he was on top. A kind of Indian version of the Kennedy’s
BERTRAND RUSSELL:
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Merriam-Webster: Fortunate 1: Bring some good thing not foreseen as certain
2: Receiving some unexpected good

No big surprise that a self avowed socialist and advocate of social democracy would choose fortunate/unfortunate in describing capitalism . Merriam-Webster also list Lucky as a synonym.

[RHTFISH]

ARISTOTLE:
He also believed that women were not fully human.

No matter whatever....because they sure make the earth wobble in it's rotations and work very hard every day keeping me on course.
Thank God for them!