Lest We Forget the History of Fallen Nations

 

Just thinking... Cuba’s Fidel Castro had price controls, and people starved for lack of sustenance. China’s Mao Zedong mandated price controls and people starved for lack of sustenance. Russia’s Joseph Stalin established price controls and people starved for lack of sustenance. Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro instituted price controls and people are starving for lack of sustenance... Beware the future of a nation’s citizenry whose leaders set in place restrictions and enforce the restrictions on who gets what and for how much and from whom they get it from... It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights; the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of vassalage, oppression, slavery... the hay and a barn for human cattle. Lest we forget the history of fallen nations, those awaiting their demise that came before us who yielded to the far left of government restrictions and domination. “When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education... the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint... It is not necessary to do violence to such a people to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold... they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.” Metaphorically speaking, what was true yesterday is true today and will be true tomorrow, regardless of who conclusively champions it. Do you think Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist, political philosopher, and historian, hit the nail on the head when he stated, “Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”