When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a true and accurate chronicle of our time. With consequences so dire and so grave that none of us - even those (especially those) who suppose themselves safe and above it all - will escape those consequences. At the end of the day, it's ultimately not about money. Money's only one of the means to a particular end. An end desired and driven by killers without conscience. And that end is a nightmare world of slaughter and atrocity. The nudge, the gradual squeeze - and then the shove. This is the foundation and the prerequisite for a world in which neither love, nor mercy, nor hope survive. It is a world in which all of your hopes, aspirations and dreams, all of your love of country and family not only count for naught, because they - and you - will be extinguished as if you never had existed. Because you surely must be if these will-to-power driven monsters are to rule without fear of opposition.
There can be only one response to such monstrous evil.