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Old 08-08-2020, 13:17   #135
Ret10Echo
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Originally Posted by tonyz View Post
Hillsdale College does share a decent amount of interesting materials.

It seems that mob rule inevitably results in central planners, often a tyrannical elite, imposing policies on the masses. The central planners creation is often equal misery for all but the elite.

The masses tend to forget that BIG.Gov feeds itself and the elites first...and the masses always get the leftovers.
One of the concepts that stuck was the unrealistic belief of the "benevolent taskmaster" and how the reality is that the worst version of that person will assume the position of power.....
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