Dan Schoonover

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“Social conservatism and neoconservatism have revived authoritarian conservatism, and not for the better of conservatism or American democracy. True conservatism is cautious and prudent. Authoritarianism is rash and radical. American democracy has benefited from true conservatism, but authoritarianism offers potentially serious trouble for any democracy.”
― John W. Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience

tags: authoritarianism, conservatism, democracy, politics

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“Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: politics, republicans

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“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

tags: change, conservatism

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“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”
― Mark Twain

tags: conservatism, mark-twain, politics, twain

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“But when I saw the price of water I nearly choked. In the last hour it had gone up tenfold. Buying some more information, I learned that there had been an attack, this time at a water treatment facility in Brookhurst. A corporation from a competing Karitzu paid a mercenary firm to blow it up, and raw sewage was now spilling into the aquifer.
My God! Did this happen before my shower? What about the toilet? Christ, I may have just blown six hundred caps on a single flush!
Hell, for the next few hours I couldn’t even afford to wash my hands.”
― Nicholas Lamar Soutter, The Water Thief

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