Middle-class citizens are coming to grips with their Constitution’s death

[mystery-ak]

April 4, 2022
Middle-class citizens are coming to grips with their Constitution’s death
By Frank Liberato

Who among us would leave the comfort of their homes to go and protest a government that’s gone completely off the rails? Probably not that many. Not after all the intimidation and threats leveled against conservatives and Trump supporters. That seems to have been the plan all along. We’ve learned what becomes of patriots who didn’t for one moment believe that they would be risking everything to attend a protest in support of a sitting president. By simply exercising their God-given rights, a great many of them have ended up as political prisoners.

Political movements aren’t usually carried out by members of a comfortable and still fairly complacent population. Liberty gave rise to the overwhelmingly dominant middle class that has been the hallmark of modern America. Even as the American dream starts to dissolve, we’ll still cling tightly to what remains and pretend not to be witnessing the demise of history’s most beautiful child.

We’re told that the precious gift was actually a demon seed and that we must purge all remembrance from our treacherous minds. As our past is erased, we’re taught to hate the present and the future. Only in feudal serfdom and communism can happiness be found so we must turn back the clock. Freedom and modernity are the devils that must be cast into the pit. They have wrecked the planet and led us off the path of conformity and obsequiousness.

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[catfish1957]

Op-Ed....  Spot on.

Country spent trillions during the cold war 1945-1990 to prevent socialism, and it ended up being an inside job.

It's like watching a crash in slow motion.

[Bigun]

Op-Ed....  Spot on.

Country spent trillions during the cold war 1945-1990 to prevent socialism, and it ended up being an inside job.

It's like watching a crash in slow motion.

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."

                  Cicero About 2500 years ago

[catfish1957]

                  Cicero About 2500 years ago

Wow, half way through the quote, I was thinking Rand. Spot on though

[Kamaji]

I believe that particular statement was synthesized by Taylor Caldwell in the book "A Pillar of Iron" and is not an actual quotation known to have been spoken or written by Cicero himself.

[Bigun]

I believe that particular statement was synthesized by Taylor Caldwell in the book "A Pillar of Iron" and is not an actual quotation known to have been spoken or written by Cicero himself.

I'm pretty sure that the English language was FAR in the future when Cicero was alive so it is very unlikely he used those precise words but I' sure he said something very similar in Latin.

[Kamaji]

I'm pretty sure that the English language was FAR in the future when Cicero was alive so it is very unlikely he used those precise words but I' sure he said something very similar in Latin.

I don't mean just the English.  I believe that the statement itself was part of a dialog Taylor Caldwell made up, but based on other things Cicero said.  It was, I believe, part of Caldwell's imagined response by Cicero to the risk that he himself might be put to death for having had Roman citizens arrested and killed without trial as part of resisting Cataline.