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“Things change...”

Oh, really? Thanks, Heraclitus, I’ve never heard that before. Except that my post was all about historical turning points, so I guess somewhere in the back of my mind I knew.

“Do you really expect that everyone and everything would remain as they were centuries ago?”

This is off-topic. Whether or not I wanted the US to be a million year reich and when the constitutional Republic was ruined are different matters.

Your post is about the shallowest, most sophistic, relativist in the bad sense piece of junior high reasoning of all the critiques of conservatism. It would be, with a bit of exagerration, as if I said I believed in the death penalty you responded with, “Do you think you can know with absolute certainty someone’s guilt or innocence? Are you God? Did it ever occur to you those who are against it might be right? Or will you execute them, too?” What childishness.


15 posted on 12/05/2012 9:04:11 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane
You go so quickly from insulting, to feeling insulted, and back to insulting again that it's hard to keep track.

You manage to attack four or five generations of Americans for not holding to your own high standards of republican virtue. If it were just one or two I wouldn't have responded.

Obviously, it's the tone of your posts I was objecting to. If you find most of our history not up to your standards, maybe those standards are unrealistic.

Sometimes people just repeat things without really thinking about them. Then somebody takes it too far, makes it a little ridiculous, and we have to go back and reexamine the idea to see if it really holds water.

The logic of your post is that a constitutional republic as you define it wasn't going to last very long. "Restore" it and it won't last very long either.

Abusing our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so forth doesn't have much point if that's the way things are (nor does abusing other posters).

So where do we go from there?

16 posted on 12/06/2012 9:31:04 AM PST by x
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