If voting posed any threat to the reigning order, one would not be constantly exhorted to do it.
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
With elites like these, who needs commoners?
The Four Freedoms
abortion
border-jumping
sodomy
dope
Deviants and criminals, given the chance, will dwell endlessly on their own deviance and criminality. Repression at least obliges them to change the subject.
To tyrannize over a people it is necessary to humiliate them, and nothing is more humiliating than declaring normal acts heinous crimes.
A nation that regards speech as the fundamental liberty is a nation unable to keep its mouth shut.
The loss of America’s appetite for full-on war has whetted it for petty military adventure.
It is perfectly possible to hate people without killing them, and vice versa.
Sentence first — verdict afterwards — reasons last of all.
Witch-hunts work especially well among people who are too sophisticated to believe in witches.