Chilling

Absolutely chilling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ikOxi9yYk


John Rogers
AU Class of 1985
The Al Del Greco of Atlanta

"The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen
to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies
throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a "warm body" democracy in
which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal
feedback for self-correction.... [O]nce a state extends the franchise to
every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning
of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote
themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members
of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state
bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an
invader as the barbarians enter Rome." (Robert Heinlein)


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