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1974. Little Rock Arkansas gov. Orval Faubus talks about his card-carrying Socialist father as being radical in his day, but conservative compared to today's "liberals" (in 1974, when interview took place).
"We are gradually being brainwashed through semantics, and little by little we are coming to believe that government action and control are good and individual action is bad. One of these days we will wake up and believe that individual freedom is tyranny and government control is really liberty. It will largely have been accomplished by the polished art of political semantics." John Ashbrook
1974. Little Rock Arkansas gov. Orval Faubus talks about his card-carrying Socialist father as being radical in his day, but conservative compared to today's "liberals" (in 1974, when interview took place).
"We are gradually being brainwashed through semantics, and little by little we are coming to believe that government action and control are good and individual action is bad. One of these days we will wake up and believe that individual freedom is tyranny and government control is really liberty. It will largely have been accomplished by the polished art of political semantics." John Ashbrook
