04-03-2014, 02:42 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:These days, democracy is a pale ever diminishing shadow of what it was intended to be.
Never truer and sadder words were spoken here.....the very minor gains of the Plebs from the Oligarchies over the last centuries since the Enlightenment are all being taken back...and now very, VERY quickly. Fascism, as a concept, predates WWII - and goes back as far as a few chose to ruthlessly rule over the many and subject them to economic slavery and totalitarian state in service of those with money.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass