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Podcast: The Dollar Vigilante
Episode: Sheeple Of The New Normal: You Vill Eat Ze Bugs And Get The Sads
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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
This saying has been credited in turn to American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, and French political economist Bertrand de Jouvenel.
Fifty-odd years later, American syndicated columnist Andrew Napolitano titled his book Constitutional Chaos: The Constitution in Exile: A Nation of Sheep.
And, it was popularized by the title of a 1961 book about United States foreign policy by William Lederer: “Nation of sheep, ruled by wolves, owned by pigs”.
In all these writings, the term “sheep” means submissive to authority and persuasio...