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A BILL OF GOODS

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

Bill of Goods: “to deceive or swindle; to persuade someone to accept something undesirable”

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The purpose of a system is what it does. A clever acronym to describe the heuristic of systems, Stafford Beer observed that the stated intentions of any system are immaterial and only the way it actually performs accurately describes what its purpose is.

The 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act was passed into law based on a massive series of lies and deliberate falsehoods. We are currently experiencing precisely what we were promised would not happen, by people who deliberately designed it to happen.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address = 1965

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Great Society Speech | Teaching American History

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address – 1965

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On January 4, 1965, in his State of the Union address, President Lyndon Baines Johnson lays out for Congress a laundry list of legislation needed to achieve his plan for a Great Society. On the heels of John F. Kennedy’s tragic death, Americans had elected Johnson, his vice president, to the presidency by the largest popular vote in the nation’s history. Johnson used this mandate to push for improvements he believed would better Americans’ quality of life.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY – L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address – 1965

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On January 4, 1965, in his State of the Union address, President Lyndon Baines Johnson lays out for Congress a laundry list of legislation needed to achieve his plan for a Great Society. On the heels of John F. Kennedy’s tragic death, Americans had elected Johnson, his vice president, to the presidency by the largest popular vote in the nation’s history. Johnson used this mandate to push for improvements he believed would better Americans’ quality of life.

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VONNEGUT’S DARK VISION ARRIVED 60 YEARS EARLY

“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.” – Harrison Bergeron – Kurt Vonnegut

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Short Story Bundle Common Core Aligned

Kurt Vonnegut’s short story – Harrison Bergeron – was written in 1961, and in Vonnegut’s darkly satirical style, portrayed America in 2081 as an disgracefully dystopian nightmare. Little did Vonnegut know what he considered outrageous and 120 years in the future, would be far closer to our current dystopian reality just 60 years later. The story was brought to my attention by my wife a week ago when we were talking about the absurdity of masks, their uselessness in stopping viruses, how they are nothing more than a means to control the population, being used to spread fear, and as a dehumanizing technique.

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