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Court
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2016 - 11:39 am: | 
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I have a most interesting and amazing opportunity today and, in preparation, was doing some reading and research. I cam upon this quote and thought it was amazing.
quote:“The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society, and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted; or that they can always prevent being overborne themselves by the strong and almost never-ceasing union of the wicked and the weak.”
—John Jay
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Reepicheep
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2016 - 12:25 pm: |
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I'd add a few other anti-virtues (or cover them all and just add selfishness), but yes, spot on. |
Ferris_von_bueller
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2016 - 06:44 pm: |
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Court, that was true of the American Revolution. It is my understanding most colonists didn't support the war, initially. A small minority changed the course of a colony and ultimately - the world. |
Gaesati
| | Posted on Monday, June 13, 2016 - 07:57 am: |
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If Trump were elected would:
1. A foreign policy which demanded greater military contributions by U.S. Allies lead to a lowering of the U.S. deficit; fewer deaths of American servicemen and a boost to the manufacturing sector by selling huge amounts of additional weapons to U.S. Allies;
2. Negating free trade agreements make U.S. manufacturing more competitive and create more employment;
3. Deporting illegal aliens create more employment;
4. Protecting the borders create a means of stopping the importation of dangerous contraband and the illicit export of weapons. ? |
Slaughter
| | Posted on Monday, June 13, 2016 - 08:18 am: |
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Normally I detest those who just copy/paste instead of expressing their opinions but as in Court's quote from John Jay above, I find my cynicism echoed in the Mencken quote describing my conundrum in this election cycle:
quote:H. L. Mencken
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.
(Message edited by slaughter on June 13, 2016) |
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