Interesting post and good comment. Yes, the Enemy has been doing something similar for a long time.
Socialism is an excellent example: How could anyone oppose something that sounds so friendly?
Socialists (and other statists, including George Freakin' Bush the First) have been wildly successful at selling government as a kind, caring, and protective parent figure, which provides for the citizens/children in response to their need. Statists have done this by constantly repeating the lie that coercive government's reason for taking people's money and running people's lives is to exercise compassion in one way or another.
But anyone who pays attention knows the truth. Here's Nietzsche's summary of what government REALLY is:
Indeed, a hellish artifice was invented there, a horse of death, clattering in the finery of divine honors. Indeed, a dying for many was invented there, which praises itself as life: verily, a great service to all preachers of death! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, on the state
Of course, America is different. It was certainly MEANT to be different, as the Declaration, the Articles of Confederation, and even (to a lesser extent) the Constitution show. But after the last 150 years in particular, no honest person can deny that the United States has become another example of what Nietzsche was writing about.
The Plan is to turn things around, of course, here and world-wide.
I don't know if that can really be done, but believing that it can and probably will be done is what keeps me going. WWG1WGA, either way.
Interesting post and good comment. Yes, the Enemy has been doing something similar for a long time.
Socialism is an excellent example: How could anyone oppose something that sounds so friendly?
Socialists (and other statists, including George Freakin' Bush the First) have been wildly successful at selling government as a kind, caring, and protective parent figure, which provides for the citizens/children in response to their need. Statists have done this by constantly repeating the lie that coercive government's reason for taking people's money and running people's lives is to exercise compassion in one way or another.
But anyone who pays attention knows the truth. Here's Nietzsche's summary of what government REALLY is:
Of course, America is different. It was certainly MEANT to be different, as the Declaration, the Articles of Confederation, and even (to a lesser extent) the Constitution show. But after the last 150 years in particular, no honest person can deny that the United States has become another example of what Nietzsche was writing about.
The Plan is to turn things around, of course, here and world-wide.
I don't know if that can really be done, but believing that it can and probably will be done is what keeps me going. WWG1WGA, either way.