COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Thursday, September 24, 2009

When you rob from Peter to pay Paul. You will always get Paul's vote.




2 comments:

  1. ...until someone ups the ante...Then, you get Rome...Even the possibility of the projection of US military power into Honduras, at the behest of Brazil, is deeply disturbing.

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