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This is what Americans believe in: individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government.
4. Make no mistake: Democrats, Liberals, are trained to be Leftists, and have lost what made America great: capitalism and individualism, and the Constitution.
For government school grads, the Constitution no longer applies:
"If you are applying 18th century thinking to 21st century issues, then you're a f**king moron."
After having watched Comey.....
Hence....America, from its inception, to the present, is marked by a bell curve.
a. While the dunce quoted above claims we should not be held to century's old ideas, the irony is that this view stems from Germany of the 18th century: The Germans have a history of embracing authoritarian rule. As the German philosopher Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest”
(Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany).
b. "Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz" ("The community comes before the individual") concretizes the collectivist belief that individuals have no rights and that "the greater good" is the only standard of value. Under such a system, man is not an end to himself, only a tool to be sacrificed for the Führer, autocrat or ruling mob.
Only capitalism regards man as a sovereign individual with an inalienable right to his own life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Government recognition and protection of individual rights is the hallmark of a moral, peaceful, productive society."
Sipsey Street Irregulars: The lie before the crime. "Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz" ("The community comes before the individual")
c. The attitude of the FDR government can be seen in these words of A.B. “Happy” Chandler, a former Kentucky governor:
“[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future."
Folsom and Folsom, "FDR Goes To War."
It looks to me as though the Trump victory was merely a pause in the march toward despotism.
4. Make no mistake: Democrats, Liberals, are trained to be Leftists, and have lost what made America great: capitalism and individualism, and the Constitution.
For government school grads, the Constitution no longer applies:
"If you are applying 18th century thinking to 21st century issues, then you're a f**king moron."
After having watched Comey.....
Hence....America, from its inception, to the present, is marked by a bell curve.
a. While the dunce quoted above claims we should not be held to century's old ideas, the irony is that this view stems from Germany of the 18th century: The Germans have a history of embracing authoritarian rule. As the German philosopher Hegel said, “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest”
(Ralf Dahrendorf, Society and Democracy in Germany).
b. "Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz" ("The community comes before the individual") concretizes the collectivist belief that individuals have no rights and that "the greater good" is the only standard of value. Under such a system, man is not an end to himself, only a tool to be sacrificed for the Führer, autocrat or ruling mob.
Only capitalism regards man as a sovereign individual with an inalienable right to his own life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Government recognition and protection of individual rights is the hallmark of a moral, peaceful, productive society."
Sipsey Street Irregulars: The lie before the crime. "Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz" ("The community comes before the individual")
c. The attitude of the FDR government can be seen in these words of A.B. “Happy” Chandler, a former Kentucky governor:
“[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future."
Folsom and Folsom, "FDR Goes To War."
It looks to me as though the Trump victory was merely a pause in the march toward despotism.