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Edmund Burke


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2022 Dec 24, 1:48pm   317 views  3 comments

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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle, and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.

Kings are ambitious; the nobility haughty; and the populace tumultuous and ungovernable.

The most obvious division of society is into rich and poor; and it is no less obvious, that the number of the former bear a great disproportion to those of the latter. The whole business of the poor is to administer to the idleness, folly, and luxury of the rich; and that of the rich, in return, is to find the best methods of confirming the slavery and increasing the burdens of the poor. In a state of nature, it is an invariable law, that a man's acquisitions are in proportion to his labours. In a state of artificial society, it is a law as constant and as invariable, that those who labour most enjoy the fewest things; and that those who labour not at all have the greatest number of enjoyments. A constitution of things this, strange and ridiculous beyond expression! We scarce believe a thing when we are told it, which we actually see before our eyes every day without being in the least surprised.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.

All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

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1   Patrick   2023 Jan 31, 11:20pm  

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/let-the-crow-eating-begin


Students of political history have often marveled that the Anglo-Irish statesman, Edmund Burke, made all of his accurate predictions about the French Revolution in 1790. Burke foresaw that the Jacobins would grossly mismanage everything and then resort to terror when none of their harebrained schemes worked. He predicted the bloody fiasco would end with the accession to power of a military commander.

Three years after Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France was published, the Reign of Terror began. Nine years later, Napoleon Bonaparte came to power through a combination of subterfuge and soldiers with fixed bayonets.

How did Burke make these predictions? He knew history and he understood human nature. He therefore saw that the Jacobins had no idea what they were doing. None of their abstract schemes acknowledged the complex reality of human affairs. Their entire conception of reality was ideological, not practical, and they insisted on imposing it with fanatical zeal.

Precisely the same is true of the Vaccine Syndicate that ran the official Pandemic Response. Its leaders are votaries of the COVID-19 Vaccine Cult, and all of their policies were in the service of getting a needle in every arm. Their monolithic policy totally ignored the complex reality of the problem.

Those familiar with history (and medical history) could see by April of 2020 that “The Science” constantly invoked by our government health agencies was an ideological construct—an Orthodoxy—and not true science. True scientific inquiry was conducted by doctors in the field who had the courage to treat the illness instead of waiting for the heralded “vaccine.”

Kevin Bass’s Newsweek is a good start. May the rest of the Official “Follow the Science” Establishment get out their forks and knives and start eating crow.
2   HeadSet   2023 Feb 1, 8:53am  

Patrick says

Precisely the same is true of the Vaccine Syndicate that ran the official Pandemic Response. Its leaders are votaries of the COVID-19 Vaccine Cult, and all of their policies were in the service of getting a needle in every arm. Their monolithic policy totally ignored the complex reality of the problem.

No. The vaxx fraud was just an exercise in raw power. The tyrants just proved they could force an absurdity on the general population. Notice that Gov Hochel of NY will not allow badly needed nurse back on the job. The Gov claims that the issue is she does not want to endanger patients with catching Covid from nurses, even though the CDC has finally admitted the jabs do nothing to stop from getting, carrying, or spreading Covid. The real issue Hochul has with the nurses is that they defied her power.

Same power demonstration with the LBGQ nonsense that will continue to force absurdities all the way to pedophilia. Same with "woke" and "BLM" absurdities. The tyrants will keep the oppression going until:


3   Ceffer   2023 Feb 1, 9:11am  

Masks are slave insignias inflicted under pretense. Wearing one means "I accept being a docile slave, master, do with me as you will."

"Wear the nice slave mask obtunding your humanity and reducing you to a cipher. It's good for your health, because I will kill you if you don't."
"Lol! I think I'll just torture you and kill you anyway, useless eater!"

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