We stand here at the precipice in Nov 2020 to see whether Law or Tyranny will prevail...

Socialism makes its inroads via lawyers.  If the American republic is ever conquered by socialism, the lawyers will be the de facto ruling class, right underneath the central bankers.  You can thank the lawyer factories at Harvard, Yale, and the Ivy League schools for diluting the Common Law with commercial color of law.  We are not free Americans, but tokens in a Monopoly game, playing by the rules the banker has dictated to us.  There is no living outside of the box!

Short and sweet!  I may not agree with your ideas, but I will defend your right to have them.

Ron I am happy for your journey and relationship with Nature's God.  You should be happy for mine.  ;-)

Very good point, Mary!  Got that Robert?

I think treating people how you would like to be treated, and allowing others to do the same is the essence of association.  It is the beginning, not the end.  Twisting the quote into "Treat people they way they want to be treated" sounds nice except what if the person wants to be treated as the boss of everyone else?  What if they want my property or labors?  What if their wants are unattainable?  Do they have a right to my obedience?

The pursuit of happiness is personal.  I cannot fulfill another's purpose in life.  Interesting that the people who do agree with such sentiments want to regulate everyone else's behavior. 

Talk about ego-centric!

Right!  This explains why 99.9% of Americans don't know about any of this — it is never covered.  Remember that in the game of Monopoly, the banker runs the game, and in the end, all the pieces go back in the box.

"News media should not have a point of view they should tell facts."  Hilarious!!  Tell that to CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, AP, Reuters, NYT, WashPo, and yes even NPR.  ALL are in the tank.  It is obvious to anyone who can see with their own eyes what is happening.

Ignorance is bliss — until it isn't...

Wow, all these forces have come to a head in 2020!

That's what I did, Waffler.  Once I got out, the scheme became all too obvious.  What I learned on my own, shed a bright light on the indoctrination in public schools.  It is as if they have purposefully twisted History and Science to the advantage of an elite that will profit with immense power as a result. 

As for the world of discovery, that is the point — to dominate and influence a child's discovery of the world.  That is not actually learning or discovering anything, it's being given the answer.

The real lie is that I have been given an education.  I have been given a program to follow towards an outcome preplanned by others.  In school, I was humored by many teachers for asking questions that challenged their conclusions — much like a student supporting Trump in class.  It was tolerated but not condoned.  Free-thinking was to be done off campus. ;-)


Thomas Hodgskin's argument as a socialist against the education by a ruling class applies today as public schools teach ideology to serve the socialist State.  The socialist ruling class still indoctrinates children into a system of subservience to the ruling class.

Right on, Mike.

TRUMP 2020!

It's not over until it's over, Mike.  ;-)

Hear, hear!!

I never imagined in my wildest dreams that we would witness voter fraud on such a scale as now in 2020.  This is truly right out of Stalin's playbook.

As we await the results in GA, PA, MI, WI, & AZ, Thoreau asks whether this is really the system we need to preserve our Liberty.  Today we await to see if our rights have been voted away by another state, thus requiring my state to acquiesce to the will of another.  And what if the authoritarians are cheating?  A true republican form of government comes the closest to Thoreau's ideal.  We must not let the powers-that-should-not-be usurp all the protections of our Constitutions.  We were warned about this day by the Founders.

It requires an informed populace, otherwise we become easily duped by designing men.

Who's going to lick them?  You, of course.  ;-)

"If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them."  THAT'S the point Madison makes.  The character of the electors determine the direction of the nation.  And that also explains the concerted effort to dumb down and misinform the populace from cradle to grave.

And he sure was a doozy!

Interesting fact.

No one can make me wise.  If I don't "wise up" on my own initiative, it's unlikely to ever happen.  16 years of compulsory 'education' did not make me wise — it was primarily a distraction and a regulation of what information I was to 'learn.  Any wisdom I have acquired has been through experience, often putting what I was taught to the test.  Lots of trials and tribulations — but they were my own, not some new hoop to jump through at school today.  I was an A student when I wanted to learn the subject.  I loved the library — I looked forward to being able to spend time there following my own train of thought and interests in science and history.

My humble opinion on gaining wisdom?  Seek the truth, whatever it is. Tell the truth — especially to yourself.  Discover the untruths in your inner monologue.  Correct your narrative.  Fess up, make amends.  Know the truth, and the truth will set you free.  ;-)

“The teacher is engaged not simply in the training of individuals, but in the formation of the proper social life.... In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.” http://libertytree.ca/quotes/John.Dewey.Quote.5799

That's a pretty big assumption of power over the populace.  Socialism is just another religion, the State being the Church, and 'educators' it's ministers.  Their God must simply be Power itself.