George Carlin once noted that "[i]f you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders."

How right he was.

Here's the advertisement that the Washington Post refused to publish. Let's make sure that this gets widely circulated.

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."

"The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority."

Mr. Justice Frankfurter concurring, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

Now that's a thought.