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David, great excerpts, great quotations, great piece. I sometimes feel like a teacher (which I was) grading a paper when I write comments like this.

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Thanks

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"When the government fears the people, you have good government.

When the people fear the government, you have tyranny."

--Thos. Jefferson

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Agreed!

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Fantastic essay, David! Well done!

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Thanks!

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Speaking of utopian intentions and the road to hell too it seems to me that the now infamous 2025 project is an extreme example of such. http://www.project2025.org

It is essentially a repackaging of Newt Gingrich's Contract With America and his related call for the Renewal of American Civilization/Culture.

Never mind too that the US is now a permanent warfare state - literally a "culture" of death. The Pentagon based military-industrial/propaganda complex is the most powerful institution. Its death-saturated "values" pattern and control every minute fraction of US culture.

Meanwhile why not check out these two references on a now well known US politician.

http://www.nerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-vance-and-the-language-of-genocide

http://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/03/08/cpac-attendees-america-under-attack

This reference points out and describes that US "culture" is now patterned and controlled by both the negative scenarios described in Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984

http://www.truthdig.com/articles/2011-a-brave-new-dystopia

These two references also describe the deeply psychotic nature of US "culture" of which J D Vance is an in-your-face manifestation

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/undreaming-wetiko-introduction

http://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-comes-to-life

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