Oppression

Oppression is "the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner".

Contradictions in Marxist theory

Marxism declared that the "proletariat" is oppressed by the "bourgeoisie" (i.e., ruling class), yet in every country where Socialists-National Socialists-Marxists-Communists have taken power the result has been much worse oppression.

• Attempts to free ordinary people from oppression repeatedly led to what Mikhail Gorbachev frankly called "servility" to new despots. - Thomas Sowell [1]

Quotes

• "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." -- Thomas Jefferson

C.S. Lewis wrote:

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.

See also

• Indoctrination by Public schools in the United States and Common Core Public school values
• Liberal values and the Politically correct: Barack Obama
• Hollywood values: List of celebrities against Second Amendment - always Liberal Elitists
• Fashion industry values
• San Francisco values: Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer
• Obamanomics: Obamunism Economic planning of the Obama administration fiscal policy, Obama administration monetary policy, Obamacare, Federal funding via Crony capitalism (Obama donor list), Deficit spending, Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism, Obamageddon
• National debt: Federal Reserve System's Ponzi scheme of Quantitative easing-Debt monetization devaluation of Fiat currency through Money supply-Treasury bills bought mostly by China and Japan
• John Maynard Keynes' liberal Keynesian economics of Barack Obama
  • NSA-FBI-DHS-CIA Mass surveillance like PRISM
• Big Government-Welfare State-Nanny State-Police State: Globalist-Statist-Socialist-Communist

versus:

• Unalienable Second Amendment Gun rights of Republicanism and Oath Keepers support and defend
• NRA, Gun Owners of America, Second Amendment Foundation, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
  • Essay:List of celebrities who support the Second Amendment - usually Conservatives or Libertarians
• Conservative values: Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan
• Libertarian values: Ron Paul and Rand Paul
• Small town values of Real America
• Christian values
• Family values: Family, Homeschooling teaching Virtue and self-reliance
• Ludwig von Mises' conservative libertarian Austrian economics and Fiscal conservatism - Capitalist Conservative economic policies of Ron Paul
• Free markets and limited government
• Libertarians and Conservatives