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I possess three free market brain cells. One is concerned with food and beer, particularly the black stuff from Prague. The second brain cell is concerned with personal visions of a possible future in a couple of thousand years. The third brain cell, God bless it, is concerned with music, philosophy, chess, politics, writing, art... I have just read Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism. That poor old overloaded third brain cell has just been fried...
In order to control the bodies and the minds of their various subjective populations; and both forms of socialism are always keen on strengthening all the other usual monopolistic apparatuses of state necessary to maintain a parasitical elite in power, though this is for our own good obviously, such as the police, the army, the legislature, and the judiciary.

Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Democratic Tradition Lives on
The origins of Democracy are steeped in the mead beer and wine of ancient Greece, and its modern appearance in England is equally associated with beer, ale and stout drinking and pub-centric political organizing. From the French toasting their breifly glorious and gloriously breif revolution to our Founding Fathers plotting sedition in Boston Bars, to modern Russian elections greased with Vodka poll chasers, alchohol has been used throughout the ages to get out the vote, get through election day, celebrate victory and weep with defeat.
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