"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Liberals LOVE the Police State
“One of the most pervasive falsehoods repeated in American politics today is that “liberals” – progressives, the Left – are for greater personal freedom and less intrusion into our lives while conservatives – the Right – are for less personal freedom and more intrusion.”
- Login to post comments
User Login
Search This Site
Recent comments
Root Strikers
Non-Voting
Civil Disobedience
Reprint Rights
Comments
The problem is that the traditional division of politics into left and right is somewhat meaningless: both sides of the spectrum can produce authoritarians, and it is indeed true that the so-called "liberals" are often far, far worse than the "conservatives."