"instead of seeing the corpse of a republic in which we live, we see

[Minstrel Boy]

merely the dead man’s clothing."

Good stuff from Richard Dolan:

The Unveiling of the National Security State

by Richard M. Dolan


Five centuries ago, Niccolo Machiavelli explained how to undertake a revolution from above without most people even noticing. In his Discourses on Livy, he wrote that one "must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones."

That is, keep the old government structures, even while you make profound changes to the actual system, because the appearances are all that most people will notice.

So today, instead of seeing the corpse of a republic in which we live, we see merely the dead man’s clothing. Those clothes look the same as ever, albeit increasingly worn. We have had a quiet revolution that has not eliminated our Congressional representatives – it’s simply made them largely irrelevant.

...

What has happened by degrees over the past fifty years is that our traditional political structure and culture have eroded and degraded into something that prior generations of Americans would have found shocking and unrecognizable. Indeed, they would have found our current state of affairs to be positively un-American.

http://www.keyholepublishing.com/The%20Unveiling%20of%20the%20National%20Security%20State.htm

[toddzilla]

1. kick, great article

[maggrwaggr]

2. we have become the new Conservatives

we want our country back.

the way it's supposed to be.

the way it was originally meant to be.

Great article. I'm e-mailing that one even to my RW father.

[maggrwaggr]

3. kicking

c'mon, give this one a kick. It deserves it!

[Cats Against Frist]

4. Great article!

Thank you.

[maggrwaggr]

5. another kick

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