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Comrade King,

Now you're trying to bait me. Surely you can do better than that. Belief in individual freedom and equality, along with constitutionally limited government is hardly anarchy. I somehow doubt Churchill was referring to Balkanization and mob rule.

Here's a few of my favorite Churchill quotes.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

I really like the middle one: conversation with the average voter. Proportional representation may be an improvement although it wouldn't include the moral rectitude, the highest standard of human values, needed for your notion of complete freedom; in effect, an absence of government. Whatever our notions, it's still a punk's game in the Age of Gullibility.

"it's still a punk's game in the Age of Gullibility."

and never illustrated more so than in our two latest presidential elections...

Proportional representation is simply the means by which radical minorities can dominate moderate majorities. It is to be avoided at all costs if one wants a functioning government.

Asserting the tired, old, anti-intellectual stance that constitutional limitations on government power is somehow "anarchy" is a doctrinal demonization response of Religious Statism. What's next? the soviet psychopolitical assertion that dissenting individuals are somehow mentally ill? Which is exactly what the soviets did when they confined political dissenters to mental institutions. This afore mentioned quote becomes very relevant.

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways
to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days
is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
fathers used in the great struggle for independence."

- Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)

You know what's next Ken, because you've seen it in play right here and on a national level. You simply resort to other dishonest means of demonization such as accusing others of a mythical War on Women. And when that does not achieve the desired result, you deftly segue to an equally phony War on Black men coupled with accusations of racism.

Those who participated in this now have the blood on their hands, of two dead NYC Police Officers who will not be with their families this Christmas, or ever.

The tree of taking liberties must be refreshed from time to time as the mood strikes.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

H.L. Mencken

The rallying cry of the Religious Statist:

"You're a victim! You deserve other people's stuff!"

All you need is a sociopathic politician willing to go out and get it for you.


"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."

Thomas Sowell

Comrade King, I appreciate it when to provide the illustration for my points.

"The Age of Gullibility" has been created by you and your fellow sociopathic, religious statists. The indoctrination of sociopathic, statist, religious, subjective morality in the place of objective intellectualism is evidence of the Age of Gullibility. That's a good term. I'll make a point to use it in the future.