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Originally Posted by dreadgeek
It's funny because every few days I see or read some quote or hear someone on the news espousing this or that position and I think "oh, so THAT is what the death of a republic sounds like". The really sad thing is if we lose our republic, we will have done this to ourselves--slowly, surely, incrementally we have inflicted the many wounds our country is suffering on ourselves.
+1 Correct.
Seems like we are acting like romans just before the fall. . Sometimes I see the futility of it all and just say f*** it.
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I understand the sentiment. What pulls me back is I take a look at my granddaughter and realize that she deserves better than a nation that decided that of all the possible models of criminal justice to use, a Soviet-style gulag would be best. My little princess deserves much, much better than that.
Cheers
Aj
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"People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up." (Terry Pratchett)
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