This one has slipped my mind for the last time. I wanted to write about it, but haven't attended to it, so now I will, but rather hurriedly.
This past holiday weekend, I read a Robert Ringer column which stated something rather peculiar to me. He said that to actively oppose the regime is to be a "useful idiot" for them. His reasoning was that they won't change, and they may do away with you if you are troublesome enough to them.
Although, he may be right as far as all that goes, I think that an active opposition is necessary, and to do it not invites the very thing that he says he opposes. For if you don't oppose, don't you give your tacit support? After all, couldn't they say something like: "nobody said anything against it". At the very least, one has to oppose that which is wrong, or be prepared to accept it, because it will become inevitable.
He ascribes too much potency to this group. If they can't muster any better arguments than the ones they typically offer, then they cannot be so fearsome as he suggests.
You cannot defeat them if you don't try. The trouble with Ringer and Limbaugh, in addition to a lot of "leaders" is that they have become too comfortable in their "success". When that happens, they become too concerned about losing what they have in material possessions and end up losing far more than that.
What profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?
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