Character comes first, all else will follow.

Has propaganda ever been more in-your-face blatant?  Trump has literally pulled back the curtain.  He has taken on the establishment and the Deep State, and the devil is squirming, pulling out all the stops, using every trick in the book.  Keep it going, America, this is YOU!!

15 years later...

I am a big supporter of individual awakening in "Christ Consciousness" rather than the institutionalism of the Word.  The truth sets us free, not yokes us for collective power.  Fellowship is the voluntary association of people for a purpose.  Depending on the purpose, I can offer my power as well, but it is my choice, and there are always 'consequences' for those choices.  I honor and respect that.

I can't imagine home-schooling your children only to send them to a socialist Ivy League college.  Firstly, it is not worth the money, secondly, there is nothing to learn there that you couldn't learn on your own reading and writing books.

No doubt, Reston, has never even been in contact with a home-schooled child.  I home-schooled our children as well.  I suppose my biggest complaint about the education system is that we have institutionalized the populace!  We are being prepared for a lifetime sitting at a desk. We are merely plugged in to the machine.  The power of the group is so seductive, we will exchange our individuality for a share in that power.  Our pleasures are all associated with power now.  It is not enough that our cup runneth over, we must ever pursue more and more and more power.  It is a mad dash for the musical chairs leaving only one in a seat of power.  All we have to do is look at the product of today's colleges to see the programming our children have been subject to for 20 years.

Sadly, my experience has been the opposite, and I have attended public, religious, college prep schools.  I will say that 'thinkers' are not really encouraged anywhere — there isn't a course for that.

We are seeing the fruits of that indoctrination now.

The right to tax is the right to steal with violence without impunity.

Um, the quote is referring to those who are saddled without consent.  The biggest corporations in the world are now the social-ist media giants like Google, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook.  What say you about these tyrannical masters?

Even in 2020, we mustn't forget that, like Trump, our liberty is under assault 24/7.  It is war, and we are the front lines.  Remember.

This sentiment was common among liberals at the time.  I'd like to know the context since FDR's actions certainly did not reflect this statement.

In other words, "wake up" and "know thyself."

Just to show how out of control this is, the lockdown of Western civilization while promoting lawless rioting has been done to implement Marxist ideology.  Rioters are not charged and even encouraged to riot more, while the rest of the populace has been ordered to stay home.  No person to person connections.  No handshake, no kiss on the cheek, no hug, no human contact.  Wear a mask (that cannot protect one from a virus), report on your neighbors.  No commerce without explicit permission from authorities.  Contact tracing (!!) i.e. 24/7 surveillance of all your movements, contact with others and who those people are. (!!)  People being arrested for social media posts that publish forbidden information.  Maskless beach goers arrested by SWAT teams.  Drones spying on people on their own property for social distancing.  This is beyond 1984, this is 2020!

The belief in the supremacy of the State is the religion of Power, practiced diligently by statists, socialists, communists, fascists, and all those that benefit from the yoking of capital and labor.

Spoken in 1917.  Imagine how much power the media and academia have now.  They have hijacked the 'memory' of the populace.  The end result, and goal, is to promote a narrative that gives them more power, stealing free thought itself, and propping themselves up as experts and authorities to whom all must treat as gospel.

2020 will go down in history as the year global authoritarianism made its greatest push into Western Civilization.  Socialism will never be enough, the politicos pulling the strings will never be satisfied, like an addict that eventually overdoses chasing the dragon.  The American republican form of government is the only 'hope' against global totalitarianism.

True and succinctly put!

Looks like racist rhetoric is a time-tested tactic of propaganda to rile people up over trivialities and exaggerations.

Holy Cow!  Talk about hitting the nail on the head!

Seems bang on to me.

Right on, Mary!!

Politicians playing God — nothing new here!  The whole point of the American Common Law and a republican form of government is to protect against the seekers of power and would-be rulers over the people.  America is built upon the ideals of natural-born Liberty — no other nation with a statist form of government comes close.  Any form of authoritarianism is anathema to personal liberty and responsibility — authoritarianism is anti-American.

2020 will be remembered as the year of global insurrection to usher in authoritarianism.  Would-be despots are showing their colors world-wide with authoritarian power grabs.  Their target?  Total control.  On the horizon, the injecting of drugs into every person on the planet, perhaps annually, forever.  Also, apparently, Capitalism is the cause of the pandemic, so all small businesses closed, all people under house arrest, mayors & governors now micro-managing every petty aspect of our lives.  We need permission for EVERYTHING now.  

Rioting is essential, so rioters are sometimes detained but always released, to be arrested and let go again, and again.  The DA's are in on it.  The mayors are in on it.  The governors are in on it.  Social media are in on it.  The MSM loves it.  Professional sports promotes it — if Americans won't pay for it, China will.  The Democratic playbook is now straight from the Red Guard during the Maoist purge.  What a year!

Wow!  I still love this quote! ;-)