Posted on 06/18/2009 3:38:48 AM PDT by Man50D
Lockean America?
I’ll believe it when I see it!
Nice write-up, tho!
CA....
Excellent post!
Excellent post, thank you.
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My thoughts exactly. I bet not to many FReepers actually remember house fuses and the trick of putting a penny under the burned out fuse. Worked for a short period of time but in the long run you were going to burn up the house.
There is only one real question here. Will a military of citizens obey commands from Obama to suppress any rebellion by force?
I think a second American civil war/revoution is almost inevitable at this point. As is well known, the Left hates the Right with a religious passion and has for many years; the George Bush hate machine was awesome — Remember the books and movies about his “assassination?”
The only thing keeping the lid on things was the fact that the Right didn’t hate the Left. In fact, the Right in the guise of political Republicans attempted compromise after compromise with the Leftists (Does this remind anyone of the run up to the First U.S. Civil War?) that failed.
But the Rightist hate machine will swing into action (and rightly so!) with the election of Obama and his fascist attempt to overthrow the Republic by means of an economic meltdown and naked oppression.
The dogs of civil war are lose...
Obama as the anti Christ seems to fit.
I see the start of an ANGRY American backlash coming and coming soon.
You are correct. In those days, the pay was a stipend and an occasional reimbursement for expenses. People served as a patriotic duty, but not for too long, they had to go back and earn a living. There was not money or "favors" from special interests. That would've been bribery. Why it isn't today is beyond me.
A few months back at a meetup of CT FRpers at a restraunt, I had seen a mixed bag of different ages for FRpers, young and middle age. I say it is a mixed bag.
Mr. Joyce makes some good observations, but he simply leaves the rails with his focus on secession. It’s not even remotely in the cards and, despite his introductory claim, it’s not a serious topic of discussion in any forum that counts.
I always check myself for that comment. I honestly believe the thought of career politicians never entered their noble minds. I check myself because it is difficult to put my head full of mush up against their purity of thought.
I disagree. They were certainly familiar enough with English politics to recognize the not just the possibility, but the actual likelihood, of career politicians.
And we should note that a long political career is not necessarily a bad thing, though we have plenty of evidence that it's quite often a bad thing. The difference between good and bad is, of course, the quality of the politician himself.
I think Madison and Jefferson probably made the mistake of assuming that there would always be more "good" than "bad" politicians -- something I imagine they believed would be protected by the requirements for land ownership among voters, and indirect election of senators. They probably also assumed that the political class of future generations would generally have the same extraordinarily high quality that characterized the Founders' generation.
I think that Franklin was a much more cynical -- and thus more realistic -- judge of human character than Jefferson ever was (I can't knowledgeably discuss Madison's views on the topic).
Franklin probably had the proper understanding of the nature of man, while others often do not.
The nature of man is NOT “basically good”.
My point, if I was vague, Obama has ,in a short time, attained a lot of power.
You can see it every day in the news.
If we choose to go against our government, we'd better be willing to go the distance because they are.
The votes that put NObama into office were contaminated by ACORN and others.
IMO, at least 20% of the votes were not valid.
Good account!
Also Hungary.
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