Mike Rivero on Governance
Mike Rivero runs the news aggregation site whatreallyhappened.com
- Political science is all politics and no science.
- The last official act of any government is to loot the nation.
- The last thing a cancer eats is itself.
- The problem with majority rule is that it too often expresses itself by taking something away from the minority.
- The Republicans think the Democrats are socialists while the Democrats think the Republicans are fascists. Sadly, they are both correct!
- The very first step in creating a police state is making sure the police are never held to account for anything they may do.
- Politics founded on fairy tales is politics doomed.
- Technology changes. Corruption is a constant.
- The biggest problem a reformer faces in running for office is that in order to see his value as a candidate, people have to face up to what has gone wrong with this nation and a lot of Americans are not willing to do that, because they cannot look at how the nation has failed without looking at how they themselves have failed as a citizen of that nation.
- The biggest reason to distrust the government is because it IS the government.
- No government can serve two masters, and a government that serves Israel cannot, does not, and will not serve the American people. A friend of Israel is no friend of America. In these dark times America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third!
- Loyalty stops when your government walks off a cliff into shark-infested waters and expects you to follow along.
- I understand that choosing a government is a political process. What I do not understand is allowing the political process to run the government!
- If the government cannot prove the accuracy and honesty of the elections by which they claim authority over the people, then the people are neither legally nor morally obligated to obey that government's dictates, nor pay its bills, nor sacrifice the lives of their children in that government's wars, and may with full justification resist with lethal force that government's attempts to coerce obedience.
- As the government acts, so act the people.
- Government gets away with everything ... until the government falls.
- I am not afraid of Ebola. I am afraid of the government's mismanagement of Ebola!
- If a government cannot prove the honesty and accuracy of the elections by which they claim authority over the people, then the people are neither legally nor morally obligated to obey that government's dictates nor to pay its bills nor to send their children to die in that government's wars, and may with full moral justification resist with lethal force efforts to coerce said dictatorship, looting, and conscription.
- Government is what makes us poor. End government and you end poverty!
- Governments and banks that control our currency control us. The first step to freedom is for Americans to abandon the US dollar the way foreign nations are doing.
- Government should not be given too much money for the same reason bankers should not be given too much money; history shows they inevitably do bad things with it!
- Governments that see their people as wealth will take care of those people. Governments that see the people as a source of wealth couldn’t care less.
- Governments that sell their people into the slavery of private central banks inevitably sell themselves to the same masters!
- Great empires are built on great suffering.
- Free societies punish actions. Dictatorships punish possessions.
- When the shitstorm hits, even the really big chunks are flying up where everyone can see them!
- When the government has buried you in shit, more government shit just doesn't matter!
- You know you live in a dictatorship when the dictator's wife decides what your children eat for lunch.
- A dishonest government creates a dishonest people!
- A global government brought into being with lies and deception is a global government that can never allow freedom of speech, thought, or inquiry. A global government brought into being with lies and deception must be the greatest tyranny in history merely to survive its own creation.
- A government that neither trusts nor respects its own people cannot trust or respect other nations. What is the domestic policy of enslavement today must be the foreign policy of conquest tomorrow.
- When government manages the wealth to serve the nation, the nation will prosper. When government manages the nation to serve the wealth, the nation will collapse.
- When government itself breaks the government's laws, the government's laws become null and void for all.
- When I was a kid, people wanted to be heroes. They wanted to accomplish things. They wanted to excel. -- Today, driven by daytime TV and Israel's own example, people see greater incentive to play the victim, to whine and stay as they are, hoping for sympathy expressed as political or monetary advantage. Constantly, those who play the politics of victimhood insist it is no shame to be a victim, and indeed have crafted a media image that it is somehow heroic. This is not unlike the medieval priests who told the serfs that suffering at the hands of the nobility was the pathway to heaven after death! -- But being a victim is not heroic. Fighting to not be a victim is heroic. Being a victim is indeed shameful if one allows oneself to be a victim or even encourages it for political and monetary gain or even because it makes them feel good about themselves to be a victim.-- But think on this for a moment. A nation of people who want to be victims is the dictator's dream, because a nation of people who want to be victims will not oppose the dictatorship, because they have been taught to embrace their own slavery as a positive personal trait!