I think we are all doing a great job of keeping others in these groups informed about issues and latest developments, but what are we doing to recruit the young and ignorant (and I mean that in the kindest way, according to the classic definition of uninformed through no fault of one's own) to our way of thinking? The statists have done an impressive job of brainwashing the general population, and they started generations ago. We don't have time to lose. We need to get the word out beyond our insular little groups.
I suggested yesterday a campaign of distributing literature (the Uncle Eric book series) to children, schools and libraries. That's how they do it. We can do it, too!
I pledge to take action starting now. I will no longer give my nieces and nephews silly, worthless, materialistic gifts. I am going to give them the gifts of knowledge about freedom and how the world really works, consisting of books from the Uncle Eric series. There are enough books in that series (11 in all, I think) to keep them in birthday gifts from the time they learn to read until they are almost ready to graduate high school, at the rate of one per year (average price $10-15 per book).
And the next time someone asks me to donate money to some hopeless cause or other, I am going to put that money instead toward being the whole series and donating it to my local library.
This is something we all can do, and we can encourage our friends across the country to do. You have to start somewhere. All actions start small and begin with that first step. Let's take the country by storm with a campaign of educating the next generation. It is easy, inexpensive and do-able!
Nina
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall.
The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.”
-Alexander Tytler