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Tough read

“Modern politics is a chapter in the history of religion.”

“Technology is moving along pretty well. Moore's Law continues to zoom along. We have fast computers and fancy mobile phones and other things that no one in the 18th century could dream of. If they could see our political system, however, I'm afraid they'd understand it all too well.”

“Democratic government before the civil service era was also corrupt on an almost indescribable scale.”

“But the reality is: this thing (American democracy) is done. It is over. It is not fixable by any form of conventional politics. Either you want to keep it, or you want to throw it out. Any other political opinions you may have are irrelevant next to this choice.”

“Yet at the same time, we can’t expect the truth to triumph on its own, because said truth has been floating around since the 1860s at least, and it has gotten nowhere at all.”

“What we’re seeing here is a power structure which has lost its connection to reality. It’s rulers consider it the most ethical and responsible system of government in human history. In fact, it is morally and intellectually bankrupt.”

“If the Cathedral can lie now, it can lie then…Rather, the standard of proof will simply be raised and raised again, as of course it has been already.”

“The first step toward a historical perspective on the conflict is to acknowledge that both of these traditions are exactly that: traditions. You did not invent progressivism any more than Billy Joe invented fundamentalism”

“In other words, you do not feel you have any serious alternative to supporting the movement. And you are probably right”

“As I’ll explain, passive resistance is not your only option, but it is a thousand million times better than Outer Party activism. Do not support the Outer Party.”

“Face it: political democracy in the United States is dead. It died on March 4, 1933.”

“FDR preserved democracy the same way that the Russians preserved Lenin.”

“History is not a judicial proceeding… we study the past so that we can take sides in the present.”

“All mainstream thought in the United States, Democrat and Republican alike, descends in unbroken apostolic succession from the gigantic political machine of (FDR).”

“The Cathedral has two parts: the accredited universities and the established press. The universities formulate public policy. The press guides public opinion. In other words, the universities make decisions, for which the press manufactures consent. It’s as simple as a punch in the mouth”

“If you want to know how you are governed, this is it: you are governed by manipulating procedural outcomes.”

“Washington has made itself necessary. Not just to Americans but to the entire world.” (Think USAID)

“Because dependency is another name for power.”

“Men enter politics because they have a lust for power. Good men as well as bad men lust for power, and sometimes it does happen that good men lust for power, seize it, and use it to do good things. But it is more the exception than the rule.”

“The idea of government as a doer of good works is thoroughly phony”.

If we view government as a pure moneymaking venture, sure.

“To be progressive is simply to support the Cathedral and the Synopsis. Today's Synopsis is the lineal descendant of the first type 2 movement in history, the Reformation. Through the Reformation we reach the Enlightenment, whose link to the Synopsis is obvious. The post-1945 Western regime, whose victory over all pre-Reformation or anti-Enlightenment forces appears final and irreversible, is the Whig (utopia).”