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Quote of the Day: Tyranny of the Minority

Susan Quinn
@SusanQuinn
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The tyranny of the minority is infinitely more odious and intolerable and more to be feared than that of the majority. —President William McKinley

No better example demonstrates the tyranny of the minority than the actions of the Leftists and their cohorts in academia and the legacy media; I use the word “minority” to identify their minority extreme views that don’t resonate with most Americans. In spite of those who say that we are a country divided, we can see that most of our citizens have not been afflicted with insanity and radical ideas, but the situation had to grow ugly enough (and painful enough) for all of us to see without a doubt how low our country had fallen.

A big part of the problem is that the Left doesn’t begin to understand how tyrannical they have been and will likely continue to be. They have deluded themselves into thinking that if the economy hadn’t tanked, if inflation hadn’t spiked, and fuel production hadn’t taken a dive, we would be willing to listen to them. They don’t understand that those issues (or the management of them) are paramount to our well-being, and we don’t want their radical agenda.

I am relieved to know that much of the country now understands the agenda of the Left which is self-serving and doesn’t serve the needs of U.S. citizens.

We need to hold fast in resisting them and continue to remind ourselves that they will not serve this country well.

We are the protectors of our nation and must take that calling to heart.

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  • Old Bathos@OldBathos

    Every nation is run by an elite minority.

    If that minority is comprised of people who earned their membership in the elite through merit and achievement and operate with an ethos of public service, gratitude and humility, then things are likely to go well.

    If that minority is comprised of people who got their position by ideological grift in spite of a lack or merit and operate with an air of entitlement, resentment and hubris, then it all goes into the crapper.

  • Jimmy Carter@JimmyCarter

    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

    C.S. Lewis

  • Susan Quinn@SusanQuinn
    ReplyingtoJimmy Carter

    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

    Jimmy Carter (View Comment):

    C.S. Lewis

    Excellent, Jimmy.

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