Post election thought for the day, circa November, 1880

“Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born… In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, ‘Make us your slaves, but feed us.’”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Washington Times, November 4, 2017:

Millennials would rather live in socialist or communist nation than under capitalism: Poll

'This troubling turn highlights widespread historical illiteracy in American society'