"Religion is the opium of the people"

[napoleon_in_rags]

5. The real gold in the link is hearing the Marquis de Sade arguing right wing talking points:

Though nature lavishes much upon your people, their circumstances are strait. But this is not the effect of their laziness; this general paralysis has its source in your policy which, from maintaining the people in dependence, shuts them out from wealth; their ills are thus rendered beyond remedy, and the political state is in a situation no less grave than the civil government, since it must seek its strength in its very weakness.

So the people become dependent on the government, which blocks wealth production... Where have I heard that before?