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The Last Source for a Street Mob

Socialist children in college or on the street have no choice other than to be narcissists because no one else will listen to their drivel.  The person or group that exposes their inadequacies is the focus of scorn and hatred in perpetuity.  “You are just a hater” is a sample of the intellectual response of the left when confronted by their errors or their hypocrisy.  These children are the last foot soldiers available to the leftist New World Order crowd. Otherwise both would fall back into oblivion.

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Doug Casey on Whether Your Vote Can Prevent a Civil War?

Guest Post by Doug Casey via International Man

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Democracy is vastly overrated.

It’s not like the consensus of a bunch of friends agreeing to see the same movie. Most often, it boils down to a kinder and gentler variety of mob rule, dressed in a coat and tie. The essence of positive values like personal liberty, wealth, opportunity, fraternity, and equality lies not in democracy, but in free minds and free markets where government becomes trivial. Democracy focuses people’s thoughts on politics, not production; on the collective, not on their own lives.

Although democracy is just one way to structure a state, the concept has reached cult status; unassailable as political dogma. It is, as economist Joseph Schumpeter observed, “a surrogate faith for intellectuals deprived of religion.” Most of the founders of America were more concerned with liberty than democracy. Tocqueville saw democracy and liberty as almost polar opposites.

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