Huns

27 Jan 08

It's another election year, and politicians from both parties are, with nauseating predictability, assuring us that they are going to legislate allthe uncertainties out of life, carelessly spending tax dollars to be collected from Americans who haven't even been born yet! Even the labels, "Socialist" and "Marxist," no longer carry with them the mantel of shame they used to.

Alexis de Tocqueville warned us:

"The dignity of man is not shattered in a single blow, but slowly softened, bent, and eventually neutered. Men are seldom forced to act, but are constantly restrained from acting. Such power does not destroy outright, but prevents genuine existence. It does not tyrannize immediately, but it dampens, weakens, and ultimately suffocates, until the entire population is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid, uninspired animals, of which the government is shepherd."

Yes, we've created an unchallenged political orthodoxy within which people have convinced themselves that the laws of the universe don't apply to them, and mendacious politicians dutifully protect them from the logical consequences of their arrogant stupidity. This "works," ofcourse, right up to the time the Huns show up!

Then, Huns laugh, as the delusion falls apart like a house of cards!

/John