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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
If your overall theme is post modernism in post-constitutional America, where the Rule of Law has resulted in government, by the lawyers, of the lawyers and for the lawyers, and that American civilization is setting up the perfect climate for another Huey Long, you have a good point. The Gangster Trial Lawyer John Edwards is prepared with the message of "Two Americas."

If, however, your point is an appeal to class envy, setting up the present "Establishment" as a unifying object of hatred for a mass movement's eventual promise of a "level playing field," than I'm afraid I will have to oppose you.

I suspect your message was aimed more at the former than the latter, and I would not underestimate the danger not after a major financial collapse (when people are too busy surviving to enjoy the luxury of organizing movements) but a degree or two above the present water temperature.

But, by then the frog will have adjusted to that heat as well, and will still refrain of jumping out of the pot before it comes to a boil.

Sounds like you might be in Joseph Sobran's camp. He summed it up pretty well last year with his "How Tyranny Came to America" analysis of how the role of the Constitution has taken on the same power and symbolism of the British Monarchy.

Everyone should read it, and understand how dark the problem and simple the solution.

91 posted on 09/03/2006 7:57:41 AM PDT by Prospero (Ad Astra!)
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To: Prospero

I clicked your link and read Sobran's essay. Excellent, and everyone should read it.

The only problem is that the solution isn't simple at all. It will take (IMHO) a number of things happening at once to reverse course. People are entrenched in power - how many gov't "employees" are not elected, but rather appointed or hired for life? Just for starters.


99 posted on 09/03/2006 8:33:43 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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