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Thought For the Day: The Plain Fact Is That Education Is Itself A Form of Propaganda – A Deliberate Scheme To Outfit the Pupil…With A Simple Appetite For Gulping Ideas Ready-Made

Posted on November 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda – a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Despotism Often Presents Itself As the Repairer of All the Ills Suffered, the Support of Just Rights, Defender of the Oppressed, and Founder of Order

Posted on November 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.” – Alexis de Tocqueville — Anyone who has not yet cast their ballot in this … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: If You Do Not Take An Interest In the Affairs of Your Government, Then You Are Doomed To Live Under the Rule of Fools

Posted on November 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” – Plato, there are several alternative translations of this passage taken from Republic, Book 1, 347c … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Democracy Is the Most Vile Form of Government

Posted on September 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Democracy is the most vile form of government.” – James Madison Memo to the Swamp and its supporters… We live in a republic.

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First Principles: A Democracy Is A Volcano Which Conceals the Fiery Materials of Its Own Destruction. These Will Produce an Eruption and Carry Desolation In Their Way

Posted on August 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.” – Fisher Ames I really dislike when I hear any American political leader mislead the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Republic, By Which I Mean A Government In Which the Scheme of Representation Takes Place, Opens A Different Prospect and Promises the Cure For Which We Are Seeking

Posted on August 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.” – James Madison (1790) The idea that we live in a … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Between A Balanced Republic and A Democracy, the Difference Is Like That Between Order and Chaos

Posted on May 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.“ – John Marshall

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Standing At the Brink

Posted on April 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Standing At the Brinkby Michael DoyleThis age of prevailing ill-liberalismBreeds little but despair and pessimismThere’s a breakdown in our societyThat has brought us into a time of anxietyOnce beautiful cities have turned into blightIt seems we are falling into our … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Remember, Democracy Never Lasts Long, It Soon Wastes, Exhausts, and Murders Itself. There Never Was A Democracy Yet That Did Not Commit Suicide

Posted on March 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I might have exhibited as many millions of plebeians sacrificed by the pride, folly, and ambition of their fellow-plebeians and their own, in proportion to the extent and duration of their power. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Democracy Becomes A Government of Bullies Tempered By Editors

Posted on November 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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