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Out of the past.......if the shoe fits...... - samintx - 03-22-2013
Does this touch Dodd-Frank and Obamacare. seems to fit the bill.
Tocqville - Defining democratic despotism (Liberalism)
Democracy in America ^ | 1831 | Alexis Tocqvile
Posted on June 16, 2003 8:52:49 AM CDT by austinite
Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?
Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent; it circumscribes the will within a narrower range and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself. The principle of equality has prepared men for these things;it has predisposed men to endure them and often to look on them as benefits.
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Re: Out of the past.......if the shoe fits...... - Ted King - 03-22-2013
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Re: Out of the past.......if the shoe fits...... - deckeda - 03-22-2013
tl;dr
Liberalism is despotism?
Interesting definition. Are all the people you read idiots, samintx?
Re: Out of the past.......if the shoe fits...... - Black - 03-22-2013
Re: Out of the past.......if the shoe fits...... - SteveG - 03-22-2013
Found it. Someone sent Samintx a moldy link from TEN YEARS AGO... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929814/posts
What next... screeds against that Commie Franklin D. Rosenfeld? Tell your email friends to keep it This Decade..okay, Samintx?
Re: Out of the past.......if the shoe fits...... - Dennis S - 03-22-2013
Rosenfeld. You know you're really reeeeeally dealing with a nut when they call him "Rosenfeld."
Re: Out of the past.......if the shoe fits...... - SteveG - 03-22-2013
Dennis S wrote:
Rosenfeld. You know you're really reeeeeally dealing with a nut when they call him "Rosenfeld."
What's incredible is their grandchildren are still marching and Cursing the Commies 80 years later (and wondering why their ship STILL hasn't come in like Granddad always said it would if you voted for the Republicans)
Re: Out of the past.......if the shoe fits...... - swampy - 03-23-2013
Her OP states clearly that the quote was posts in 2003. You didn't have to search very far.
Re: Out of the past.......if the shoe fits...... - GGD - 03-23-2013
The text being quoted was written in 1831.
"Democracy in America ^ | 1831 | Alexis Tocqvile"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/DETOC/ch4_06.htm
Re: Out of the past.......if the shoe fits...... - swampy - 03-23-2013
Are you just discovering Tocqueville?