It’s always the intellectuals who bring socialism or theocracy, and when it arrives they are always the first ones lined up against the wall. And they are *utterly surprised* to find themselves looking at the inside of a blindfold. Every. Single. Time.
You see, they have *New Ideas* and therefore don’t need to bother with dusty old history.
It’s “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” – Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff under President Obama.
To paraphrase Saul Alinsky: Faced with a big enough crisis the people will DEMAND you do things they never would have permitted otherwise,
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The whole Menshevik thing didn’t work out real well for them, either.
Eh, Jewish intellectuals don’t bother with no Torah.
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It’s always the intellectuals who bring socialism or theocracy, and when it arrives they are always the first ones lined up against the wall. And they are *utterly surprised* to find themselves looking at the inside of a blindfold. Every. Single. Time.
You see, they have *New Ideas* and therefore don’t need to bother with dusty old history.
For a Liberal, POLITICS is their religion.
It’s not “Don’t start none, won’t be none.”
It’s “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” – Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff under President Obama.
To paraphrase Saul Alinsky: Faced with a big enough crisis the people will DEMAND you do things they never would have permitted otherwise,
“Doing things they never would have permitted otherwise.”
Yup. The sheer volume of people agreeing to, and defending all those Gov. covid hysteria demands comes to mind.
Ironic. Alanis Morrissette, call your office.