Cato_Reborn
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15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 4/2/09 - 4/9/09 · 0 replies · +2 points
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 4/2/09 - 4/9/09 · 2 replies · +3 points
"The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’
‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 4/2/09 - 4/9/09 · 0 replies · +1 points
Though the nation is sick and corrupt, it still exists. There are still legal ways to petition our concerns without trampling upon the law. The day that this country finally destroys individual rights is the day that the law will become null and void. But until that moment, we must defend the law, for it is the law of our nation and the Constitution that is most under attack right now, and is in the most need of saving.
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Tea Parties · 1 reply · +1 points
The best way we can get our message across is to stand closely to our values and to make our values loud and clear. Make signs or T-Shirts displaying what you advocate, what you value, what your principles are. I think this will also set a good example for your son, as our youth culture today worships nihilism and anarchism.
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - 4/2/09 - 4/9/09 · 0 replies · +1 points
I don't ask this to be an alarmist or anything, but speaking pragmatically, just to see what will be necessary for our tv-dinner and iPod society to survive if the clock were turned back a few hundred years.
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - News From You · 0 replies · +1 points
Or is the point to just bombard them with so many letters that they "get the message"? If it is the latter, I suggest that we start organized letter writing, and direct our efforts to all send letters of protest to a single politician, on a single day, so that the mass of mail that they get will hopefully make our point stronger.
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Tea Parties · 0 replies · +1 points
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - America's Wish List · 1 reply · +1 points
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - News From You · 0 replies · +1 points
15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - America's Wish List · 0 replies · +1 points
"Rome was founded and extended by the labors of those men of old; their descendants made Rome more hideous while it stood than when it fell. For in the ruin of the city it was stone and timber which fell to the ground; but in the lives of those Romans we saw the collapse not of material but of moral defenses, not of material but of spiritual grandeur. The lust that burned in their hearts was more deadly than the flame which consumed their dwellings."