Contumacious
Radical Freedom
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What the fossils on the right don't get is that the word 'socialist', to younger Americans, now means
some word that used to scare my parents and grandparents.
Conservatism is once again getting rolled over by progress.
I know what socialism means to the yutes
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. –
Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943)
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