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“Restore Power to the People!” and Other Misdirections of the AFL-CIO

So says an advertisement seeking to employ college students as political operatives for a group called Working America, which, ironically, seeks to expand the welfare state and demands that government pay people to not work. But this is not the only irony on the flier. Here’s its sales pitch: Organize with Working America and stand [...]
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A Practical Program of Disenfranchisement: A 10-Step Plan to Save American Democracy by Dismantling It

The Nature of Government Government is always and everywhere a man with a gun, using it to conform the actions of others to his will. Though moderns like to recognize this fact when they look at dictatorships, they fail to realize that the same thing is true of all other forms of government, including democracies. [...]
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citizen of the day: janine giamendico

One of the most powerful governmental institutions is the public school system, which, along with its private branches, controls the lives of almost every American for about 12 years, or, in the case of those of us who attend public colleges, 16 or more.  “Free and compulsory” education has, from a governmental perspective, one huge [...]
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