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Very interesting that he largely foresaw our current condition!
1 posted on 12/21/2005 7:20:49 AM PST by Marxbites
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To: Marxbites

Oops - forgot to check excerpt.

See the whole article here please:

http://www.nationalreview.com/novak/novak200512210809.asp


2 posted on 12/21/2005 7:22:06 AM PST by Marxbites (A citizenry of sheep must in time beget a Govt of wolves)
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The paleo-Coms of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s obviously read DeToqueville. They knew exactly where and how to strike to weaken our Republic.


3 posted on 12/21/2005 7:22:59 AM PST by Antoninus (Hillary smiles every time a Freeper trashes Rick Santorum)
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To: Marxbites

What would he think of his own homeland???


4 posted on 12/21/2005 7:23:26 AM PST by Redbob
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He did. Now given the circumstances, would you rather be in the ruled class or the ruling class?


5 posted on 12/21/2005 7:24:03 AM PST by proxy_user
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"What would he think of democracy in today's America?"

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He wouldn't recognize it.


6 posted on 12/21/2005 7:24:07 AM PST by Roccus
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To: Marxbites

Reminds me of the people Wells invents in "The Time Machine."


8 posted on 12/21/2005 7:35:27 AM PST by twigs
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To: Marxbites
Free E-Books from Project Gutenberg

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859


10 posted on 12/21/2005 11:46:33 AM PST by zeugma (Warning: Self-referential object does not reference itself.)
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To: Marxbites
One of the brilliant social and political commentators of all time.

Just that excerpt alone is perfectly written, and right on the money.

I guarantee you my high school son's history teacher hasn't read him, and wouldn't in a million years teach him in his class.

11 posted on 12/21/2005 11:52:24 AM PST by lawnguy (Give me some of your tots!!!)
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To: Marxbites

T's prescient pontificating has me thinking along the lines of the DNC planks with a supporting role by the rinos of the gop...


12 posted on 12/21/2005 11:54:34 AM PST by railsplitter (with extreme prejudice- destroy the enemy... foreign and domestic)
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