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July 5, 2012
What Is Required Is Political Compromise
All we have in politics today is a slave auction.The Democrats want me to slave for government for 150 days a year. The Republicans say that is mean and excessive and offer me a compromise of 140 days this year and only 150 next. They believe in smaller government. -- Classical Values
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 5, 2012 12:50 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Since when do the republicans believe in smaller government?
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Posted by: Mike at July 5, 2012 2:47 PM
Feudalism is back.
Half the country expects you to work from planting to harvest, at which point they will take their share. If there is not enough from the peasantry this year, the feudal Lords and their retainers will borrow it from future years. You get what is left over. They also expect that you will work the entire year, so the place will not fall apart. Unlike the Medieval days, you are not required to practice for war after the harvest is in. The Lords have plenty of retainers who will do what they're told.
You are enslaved by your own virtue. They have you convinced there is no way out of this place, without betrayal of your own virtue.
Posted by: John A. Fleming at July 5, 2012 3:36 PM
Feudalism is back.
Half the country expects you to work from planting to harvest, at which point they will take their share. If there is not enough from the peasantry this year, the feudal Lords and their retainers will borrow it from future years. You get what is left over. They also expect that you will work the entire year, so the place will not fall apart. Unlike the Medieval days, you are not required to practice for war after the harvest is in. The Lords have plenty of retainers who will do what they're told.
You are enslaved by your own virtue. They have you convinced there is no way out of this place, without betrayal of your own virtue.
Posted by: John A. Fleming at July 5, 2012 3:36 PM
Thanks! I still think of you and John and Christine ever since you mention the table. Crazy times.
Posted by: M. Simon at July 5, 2012 3:40 PM
The Republicans wouldn't offer you only 140 days of yearly slavery if GOP voters didn't keep taking the offer. They take the offer because they are content-free, and like someone giving a book report for a book they never read, they won't commit to anything but compromise.
Citizenship is a full-time job if you want to remain free. Stop accepting excuses when results are promised.
Posted by: Scott M at July 5, 2012 3:57 PM
There is a 3rd way. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
This 3rd way is unavailable until a latter-day Thomas Paine is able to put into unequivocal words what everyone only vaguely knows.
Posted by: John A. Fleming at July 5, 2012 4:56 PM
Don't be sure Brumisateur Fleming, that the reckoning time isn't nigh.
This election ballots, the next, bullets perhaps.
Posted by: Peccable at July 6, 2012 5:50 AM
Peccable, I'm pretty sure that a party that nominates Thurston Howell III to battle TheOne is not on the verge of rebellion. If the people on our side were on the verge of rebellion wouldn't they have been more passionate and supportive of Bachman, Santorum, Gingrich, et al?
We would pick a bag of dog crap, and we frequently do, if it was our best hope to avoid a fight. We are silent when the Ruling Class wastes a military in another failed nation building project. We are silent when the Ruling Class begins to disarm with treaties and budget cuts. Not one banker, politician, or bureaucrat really fears us. They say they fear us because they know calling us dangerous will make us try hard to demonstrate how harmless we are to them.
Posted by: Scott M at July 6, 2012 3:41 PM
Feudalism was better. A feudal lord was obligated by an oath before God to protect and defend his people.
Posted by: Robert Oculus III at July 6, 2012 5:55 PM
ROIII nails it. These fuckers fuck us fearlessly. When did they stop worrying ?
Posted by: dr kill at July 6, 2012 9:38 PM
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
Once Wilson and The Progressives decided they would experiment with us, and we didn't tar and feather them, they learned quickly how to take advantage.
Take a lesson from the race hustlers and the Muslim grievance lobby. Scream "bloody murder" at any infraction and convince them their safety and liberty are now at risk. They won't stop because they feel guilty. They might stop if they feel fear. Never calm their fears. Never accept their excuses or delays.
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Posted by: computer support at July 15, 2012 5:54 PM
Once again, you selectively read, and misinterpret the information. He was not denying the fact that they had slaves (the majority actually treated their slaves very kindly, Washington even freed his at his death). He was stating that the fact that you must resort to using the "founding fathers had slaves" card as your argument just proves that you are incapable of an intelligent reply.
-Young Patriot
Posted by: William Studt at August 19, 2012 1:08 PM
America is collapsing at free fall speed.... Martial law and WW3 right around the corner
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