Can a free people willingly choose servitude? Is it possible for democracies to become tyrannies? How? Back in 1959 the philosopher Eric Hoffer had this to say about Americans and America:For those who want to be left alone to realize their capacities and talents this is an ideal country.
Flash forward fifty years to the election of Barack Obama and a hard left leaning Democrat Congress. What Americans want today, apparently, is a government that has no intention of leaving any of us alone. [snip]
The deeper theme of Plato's Republic is the nature of education and the relationship between education and the survival of the state. In short, it's about a journey that results in the realization that justice and happiness in a community rests upon the moral condition of its citizens.
The short version of his theory is that the combination of freedom and poor education in a democracy render the citizens incapable of mastering their impulses and deferring gratification. [snip]
The progressive left in America has spent countless generations destroying the guardians of our inner citadel: religion, family, parents, and tradition - in short, conservatism and limits. When we exhaust the financial and moral capital of previous generations (and future ones, as with the current stimulus bill) we will dutifully line up at the public trough, on our knees.
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"A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have...."-- Thomas Jefferson
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