Under reconstruction
Conceit – “an unduly high opinion of ones own abilities or worth”
The notion that a small cadre of politicians can create a better world by making decisions for the people, controlling markets, the means of production and what products will be produced is conceit. The destruction of lives that follow in its path renders it fatal.
F. A. Hayek
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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
ca. 1840
"It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag." ~Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC
The call for Social Justice isn’t a call for justice at all. It is a call for equalization of substance, the establishment of which, requires an injustice to some and a gift of stolen goods to others.