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  SELECTED, FAMOUS QUOTES BY PITCHFORK:

American Pitchfork Manifesto: Tipping Point on the Road to Amarabia?

A Fictional Retrospective From the Great Beyond

By Pitchfork © 2009-2012

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Freely quote with attribution

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He that lives upon hope and change will get whomever, whatever, whenever, however, whyever.  ~Pitchfork
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Socialism is a governance of producers thereby unable to lift their lot in life by means of improved productivity – whether by knowledge, exertion, risk-taking, or other investment of money, mind, or muscle.  ~Pitchfork
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Socialism must blind morality – individual judgment of good and evil, of right and wrong - and morality’s source, socialism’s antagonist – religion – and morality’s use – individual virtue – by amoral subjugation to the governing.  One-on-one, individual sovereignty had been anathema to coerced equality, as state sovereignty had been anathema to federal socialism.  ~Pitchfork
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They all knew the ways to carry the days and eschewed them, every one, of nefarious necessity.  This was not about God, family, or country.  ~Pitchfork
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This had never been about politicians too small for the jobs; this had ever been about jobs too big for the politicians.  The first was given; the second was taken.  The first was life; the second was choice.  The remedy was not more politicians for us; the remedy was less jobs for them.  ~Pitchfork
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Pitchfork reckoned that a despot successful in the short term had legs to carry him into the long term and that a despot unsuccessful in the short term had no long term.  ~Pitchfork
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The three-headed eagle had morphed to a runaway choo-choo labeled THE CHIEF, The-Condescender at the throttle, and two tenders in tow – one stuffed with lawmakers, one stuffed with judges – labeled LITTLE INDIANS 1 and LITTLE INDIANS 2.  Coaches and freight were not in sight.  ~Pitchfork
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Wasn’t THE War aimed at the wrong target?  Why not Saudi Arabia?  ~Pitchfork
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There was no 'just add water' way to convey what was not known and why its pursuit was worthy; time at the granite knee of life experience was perilously, painfully personal.  You have had to have been there.  You had to pay attention to what you were doing; you had to pay attention to what was being done to you.  You had to pay.  It was a dangerous world, and you were in its midst.  ~Pitchfork
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We pull the cart.  Government rides.  ~Pitchfork
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On the road to Amarabia, remember this:  take cold comfort in the tipping, it would not have been over when it was over - tipping was tipping . . . it was stopping the descent, it was turning around; it was not a return ticket.  Three clichés at work:  One – Would lingering at a point along the slippery slope of socialism or worse have been enough relief?  Two – Both baby and bathwater – long-term capital and long-term productivity – had been heaved and, then, had to be returned.  Three – Out goes the bad – the Hydra of coerced servility – when in comes the good – life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  ~Pitchfork

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Too many Amerikan castrati, too few cojoneses; too much self-esteem, too little learning; too many fabulists, too few faithful; too much hyphenation, too little affinity.  ~Pitchfork

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A fatal flaw of character in any organization of people would have been a problem started at and nurtured from the top.  ~Pitchfork

Oh my, those were dark days.  Felt trumped thought.  Today trumped tomorrow.  Excess trumped restraint.  Servitude trumped sovereignty.  Hubris, impiety trumped imperfectability, humility; conceit ascended. Cowardice trumped confrontation.  Nonsense trumped Nature. Coercion trumped competition.  Hope trumped expectation.  Choral change trumped history. Government trumped God.  ~Pitchfork