As you like it?

As you like it? 

From Webster's 1828 dictionary

DEMOCRACY, n.  [Gr. People, and to possess, to govern.] 

Government by the people; a form of government, in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of the people collectively, or in which the people exercise the powers of legislation. Such was the government of Athens.
AND also From Webster's 1828 
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REPUB'LIC, n.  [L. respublica; res and publica; public affairs.]

1.  A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people.  In modern usage, it differs from a democracy or democratic state, in which the people exercise the powers of sovereignty in person.  Yet the democracies of Greece are often called republics.

2.  Common interest; the public.  [Not in use.]

Republic of letters, the collective body of learned men.
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From the Etymology dictionary online

SOCIALISM (n.)

in reference to theories or systems that substitute cooperative action and community possession of means of production in place of competition based on individual effort, 1837, from French socialisme (1832) or formed in English (based on socialist) from social (adj.) + -ism. Perhaps first in reference to Robert Owen's communes. "Pierre Leroux (1797-1871), idealistic social reformer and Saint-Simonian publicist, expressly claims to be the originator of the word socialisme" [Klein, also see OED discussion]. The French word began to be used in this sense c. 1835.

Socialism is not found in Webster's 1828 dictionary. The earliest example of the French word is from 1832 **********

From Webster's 1828 dictionary

MON'ARCHY, n.

[Gr. See Monarch.]

1. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single person. Such a state is usually called an empire or a kingdom; and we usually give this denomination to a large state only. But the same name is sometimes given to a kingdom or state in which the power of the king or supreme magistrate is limited by a constitution, or by fundamental laws. Such is the British monarchy. Hence we speak of absolute or despotic monarchies, and of limited monarchies. A free government has a great advantage over a simple monarchy. 2. A kingdom; an empire. **************

From Webster's 1828 dictionary 

TYR'ANNY, n.  

1.  Arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; the exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.  Hence tyranny is often synonymous with cruelty and oppression.

2.  Cruel government or discipline; as the tyranny of a master.

3.  Unresisted and cruel power.

4.  Absolute monarchy cruelly administered.

5.  Severity; rigor; inclemency.

 The tyranny o' th' open night. It's line o'clock

Matthew 13:44-49 (KJV)  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:

Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:

Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.

So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,

Would you believe it?

 It is hard to understand why God would crush Jesus, His innocent Servant. But it is in His suffering for sin that God deals decisively with sin and its harmful effects.

Isaiah 53:1

Indeed, who would ever believe it?    Who would possibly accept what we’ve been told?    Who has witnessed the awesome power and plan of the Eternal in action?

2 

Out of emptiness he came, like a tender shoot from rock-hard ground.He didn’t look like anything or anyone of consequence—    he had no physical beauty to attract our attention.

3 

So he was despised and forsaken by men,    this man of suffering, grief’s patient friend.As if he was a person to avoid, we looked the other way;    he was despised, forsaken, and we took no notice of him.

4 

Yet it was our suffering he carried,    our pain and distress, our sick-to-the-soul-ness.We just figured that God had rejected him,    that God was the reason he hurt so badly.

5 

But he was hurt because of us; he suffered so.    Our wrongdoing wounded and crushed him.He endured the breaking that made us whole.    The injuries he suffered became our healing.

6 

We all have wandered off, like shepherdless sheep,    scattered by our aimless striving and endless pursuits;The Eternal One laid on him, this silent sufferer,    the sins of us all.

7 

And in the face of such oppression and suffering—silence.    Not a word of protest, not a finger raised to stop it.Like a sheep to a shearing, like a lamb to be slaughtered,    he went—oh so quietly, oh so willingly.

8 

Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away.    From this generation, who was there to complain?Who was there to cry “Foul”?    He was, after all, cut off from the land of the living,Smacked and struck, not on his account,    because of how my people (my people!)Disregarded the lines between right and wrong.    They snuffed out his life.

9 

And when he was dead, he was buried with the disgraced    in borrowed space (among the rich),Even though he did no wrong by word or deed.

10

Yet the Eternal One planned to crush him all along,

    to bring him to grief, this innocent servant of God.

When he puts his life in sin’s dark place, in the pit of wrongdoing,

    this servant of God will see his children and have his days prolonged.

For in His servant’s hand, the Eternal’s deepest desire will come to pass and flourish.

11 

As a result of the trials and troubles that wrack his soul,

    God’s servant will see light and be content

Because He knows, really understands, what it’s about; as God says,

    “My just servant will justify countless others by taking on their punishment and bearing it away.

12 

Because he exposed his very self—

    laid bare his soul to the vicious grasping of death—

And was counted among the worst, I will count him among the best.

    I will allot this one, My servant, a share in all that is of any value,

Because he took on himself the sin of many

    and acted on behalf of those who broke My law.”

Communist Goals

 Communist Goals 
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963

[ https://www.congress.gov/bound-congressional-record/1963/01/10/house ]

 Current Communist Goals 

EXTENSION OF REMARKS 

OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

Additional sources:

• https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record
• https://www.congress.gov/88/crecb/1963/01/10/GPO-CRECB-1963-pt1-2-1.pdf

• https://www.marxists.org/index.htm
• https://www.marxists.org/subject/index.htm
• https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/index.htm
• https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/children/index.htm
• https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/1935/07/organisers-manual/index.htm
• https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/cpusa/1935/07/organisers-manual/ch01.htm