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Friedrich Nietzsche:
Bill Shade, my history professor for the Early Federal Period when I was in grad school, was fond of saying that “history is irony.”
Ironically, Niectzshe went insane towards the end of his life.*
But that doesn’t mean he was insane when he wrote this.
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*The program at the link is currently available on Netflix and is well worth your while.
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Kerry Greenwood:
Cec: He must be like that bloke on the radio, the Shadow, that has the power to cloud men’s minds.
Miss Eliza: Not a lot of power needed there.
Greenwood, Kerry, Murder in the Dark (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2009), p. 174
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Harry S Truman:
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called farm price supports.
Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan “Down With Socialism” on the banner of his “great crusade,” that is really not what he means at all.
What he really means is, “Down with Progress — down with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal,” and “down with Harry Truman’s fair Deal.” That is what he means.
Afterthought:
That was 70 years ago.
Times haven’t changed.