Bread and Circuses

It’s a new day in America, and I thank God for his providence in this election. But I still think Robert Heinlein made some keen observations, and they’re even more true today than they were 60 years ago when he said them:

“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’

“‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”

– Robert A. Heinlein

And trust me, the barbarians are here.

6 Comments

  1. Pearson :

    The corruption you exposed in

    https://www.oann.com/video/pearsonsharpreports/election-integrity/

    was CONFIRMED by the Atlanta Federal court in the case styled

    Curling v Raffensperger , Civil Action No: 1:17-cv-2989- AT –

    The Expert Witness Professor J. Alex Halderman , PhD report is found here – the judge agreed with the expert in that she found that results can be changed from one candidate to another in real time without creating an evidentiary trace.

    https://www.wdbo.com/news/computer-expert-hacks-dominion-voting-machine-front-judge-changes-votes-with-bic-pen/EM5Q4XKDARGPPC7Z6MTUWSOYSA/

    I used those reports in opposing “special counsel” Jackass Smith “criminal” case against President Trump in DC . I also used it in a civil case brought by Michigan Welfare Rights Organization.

    I suspect that the reason ALL results were reported without delay on election night is because they knew their scam had been exposed.

    Keep up the great work – thanks

    Jose A Perez

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    1. yep that’s a great case. I think the only reason we won is because God still has plans for us. Considering the odds against us, it’s simply a miracle we won–nothing less. Now we need to make it count.

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  2. You are Correct, are founders of the USA, spoke about “democracy” as

    “mobocracy” because democracy only worked where you have a small, homogeneous group. We are a “Republic” as Ben Franklin explained !
    For that to work, li8ke any of our US major league Sports, you all need to

    know the Rules & live & play by them. So if you do not know our US Constitution,

    you are up a river without a paddle. Get a paddle, read & understand how

    playing by the Constitution Works. Without, we are just a mob, that fake media

    can manipulate. Read & study the US Constitution, it will make you an

    intelligent Voter…. Pass this around/ thanks rcw

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    1. nothing more important that we can do as American citizens than to read and understand our own Constitution. We take it for granted that we have these freedoms, but that’s the surest recipe to lose what we have. Nothing is free, not even the rights we were born into. Everything must be fought and earned, even if it is an unalienable right.

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