If this man had stuck to his principles in office the world would have been a much better place.

This is a quite prophetic talk from 1961 about the threat of socialised medicine. As I listened to it I heard, in my head, several BBC and Guardian types trying to ridicule him. You might find the same thing.

The power of constant propaganda over decades and decades is amazingly strong but it also has a weakness. When someone starts to think for themselves the rhetoric of the state becomes obvious and predictable.