25 years ago - And not much has changed

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Frank Herbert is a well renowned, and by some, regarded as one of the best Science Fiction Writers of all time.  Unfortunately, he passed away several years ago, so his work was cut short.  But not before penning the Dune Series.

In the fourth book in that series, the one critics call his most philisophical book, he penned the following missive as an entry in the Stolen Journals of Lord Leto II:

Liberal Bigots are the ones who trouble me the most.  I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over the future.  Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.  It's True! Libreal governments always develop into aristocracies.  The bureacracies betray the true intent of the people who form such governments.  Right from the first, the little people who formed the goverments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves in the hands of the bureaucratic aristocracies.  Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner.

I find it most telling that some of the criticisms that have been heaped upon the liberals over the last few years, fit this quote of his from 1981 to a tee.  Can anyone deny that part of the reason John Kerry lost in 04 was the way he projected an aristocratic air? While simultaneously trying to tell people he was of the common man?

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
hanoijohn lost me due to his lack of any accomplishments while in the senate and his mad dog painting of me and my fellow vets as child killers, rapists.

Kind of hard for a multi billionaire to say I am just like you common folk.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

Kind of hard for a multi billionaire to say I am just like you common folk.

Especially when he thumbs his nose at the working man, in deeds if not in words.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Can anyone deny that part of the reason John Kerry lost in 04 was the way he projected an aristocratic air? While simultaneously trying to tell people he was of the common man?


Kerry was such an idiot all he had to do to win was apologies and say he regretted that his testimony made it seem that the crimes he mentioned were anything but isolated incidents by a few bad eggs.

And it was completely unnecessary to say anything bad about the war. He already had the against the war vote. He ran a really stupid campaign thankfully.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

And it was completely unnecessary to say anything bad about the war. He already had the against the war vote. He ran a really stupid campaign thankfully.

Frank never said aristocrats had to be smart.