Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville...a little lesson in history

Soft Tyranny:

Well I believe fellow comrades...we have met the enemy...and that enemy of freedom is our Government. A new soft tyranny has come to town.

What is Soft Tyranny?

Soft tyranny is an idea first coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 work entitled Democracy in America. In effect, soft tyranny occurs whenever the social conditions of a particular community hinder any prospect of hope among its members. For Tocqueville, hope is the driving force behind all democratic institutions. As such, whenever this all-encompassing hope is taken away from the people, liberal democracy fails. Examples of this failure can be seen in the Weimar Republic of Germany during the 1930s or in the French Third Republic around 1940. Hope for a better future effectively died in both of the aforementioned situations. As a result, fascist regimes were established to fill the void left by the departure of hope.

Senate Passes SCHIP Bill in Party-line Vote

The Senate on Thursday approved legislation to provide health insurance coverage to about 4 million uninsured children. The measure passed 66-32 in a vote split mostly along party lines.

So...9 Republicans voted for Socialized Medicine today, and don't let them say they didn't.

The nine turncoats...

Alexander (R-TN)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN) ***Note: He’s leading the Gang of 14 charge on the Generational Theft Act in the Senate***
Hutchison (R-TX)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)

So fellow comrades, this group of nine joined the ranks of the socialists. And we have now just witnessed one more nail in our coffin.

Soft Tyranny fellow comrades...there is more to come.

Love,
The Lass

Oh...and my favorite author...C.S. Lewis had something to say about this-


Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

I agree and so does this man...



There is no free lunch!!!!