It Has Proved Politically Wiser To Set

...there Is Simply Nothing So Important To A People And Its Government As How Many Of Them There Are, Whether Their Number Is Growing Or Declining, How They Are Distributed As Between Different Ages, Sexes, And Different Social Classes And Racial And Ethnic Groups, And Again, Which Way These Numbers Are Moving.

So Many Of The New Nations Which Were Established As Democracies After The Second World War, During The Decolonizing Process, Have Now Changed Their System To State-socialism. Small Elites Run Them, And They Aren't Sharing Societies. They Aren't Even Socialist. The Power Of The State Has Been Merged With Business Property And You Have The Greatest Concentration Of Power That's Possible.

Somehow Liberals Have Been Unable To Acquire From Life What Conservatives Seem To Be Endowed With At Birth: Namely, A Healthy Skepticism Of The Powers Of Government Agencies To Do Good.

Secrecy Is For Losers.

The Amount Of Violations Of Human Rights In A Country Is Always An Inverse Function Of The Amount Of Complaints About Human Rights Violations Heard From There. The Greater The Number Of Complaints Being Aired, The Better Protected Are Human Rights In That Country.