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That the Republican Party Platform of 1956 mirrored the French Revolution more than does the Democratic Party today, which originated as the party of slave based agriculture. That you appear to have ignored a large slice of history.Your post has what to do with this???? [..]
The truth of the matter is that what the French Revolution stood for serves as the basis for our major political party today, the Democrat Party.
It's because of Moon meeting with Un, isn't it? Your world view is disintegrating and you're becoming even more frantic.
Nice try....finally.
Wrong....but at least you tried.
Now, in the words of a previous President, a teachable moment.
a. Locke: sovereignty of the individual while Rousseau gave all power to the collective, and the ‘general will’ as superior to one’s conscience.
b. Locke saw man as sinful, hence the need for checks and balances, while Rousseau viewed man as ‘the noble savage.’
c. Locke claimed our rights come from God, while Rousseau said government would determine what rights we have, and for how long.
d. Locke said that private property and the fruits of our labor are synonymous with liberty, while Rousseau said that property is the original sin of civilization, and that all property must be commonly held and regulated by government for the common good.
e. Locke believed in equality before the law, but not necessarily of equality of wealth, while Rousseau saw economic inequality as the source of all social ills.
See Jonah Goldberg, “Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy,” chapter five.
It's clear with whose policies the Democrat Party aligns.
Soooo…-are you a Lockean or Rousseau-Marx-Mao-Obamunist?
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