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To: gorush

What revolution, save the American revolution, ended up being for the better? I can’t think of any.


45 posted on 07/02/2011 8:30:39 PM PDT by youngidiot (Hear Hear!)
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To: youngidiot

none. and that is a good point. ours was a conservative revolution, intended to preserve the ancient rights of englishmen.


48 posted on 07/02/2011 8:34:57 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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"What revolution, save the American revolution, ended up being for the better? I can’t think of any."

Nor can I. It took a special culture for it to succeed here. Our culture is far different now and, with the huge increase of government dependency, I doubt that a renewed effort to reinstate the Constitution would succeed now...certainly not at the ballot box.

65 posted on 07/03/2011 12:00:01 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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