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To: ScottinVA
Some Catholic philosopher, a cultural "deep conservative" but I don't remember who, said that if men and women are free to marry and raise a family, and work productively for the support and well-being of their family, then the socety has the basics of a humane and decent life, no matter what its form of political governance.

(Assuming, of course, that the economic and political structures have not fatally undermined your ability to work, to benefit from your work, and to marry.)

If one can live in Russia with the liberty to work, marry, beget and raise your kids, it could arguably be a better place to live in than, say, Riverside, CA, where the official unemployment rate is 15% (but the unofficial far higher), where high taxes rob wage-earners of most of their wages, and where their children --- under the guise of health! ---will be instructed in sodomy.

26 posted on 03/30/2013 12:49:43 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Pray for me, and I shall for you and all your friends, that we may merrily meet in heaven. - T. More)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I was just trying to explain to our young girls how things -- moral matters, in particular -- have incomprehensibly (to them) inverted since I was a kid. A world now where a good American has to question saying the Pledge of Allegiance (OK, still, to have allegiance to the flag but what else are you assenting to or condoning "for which it stands"?), yet would be comfortable sitting beside Russia's president discussing contemporary moral depravity and Christian orthodoxy. But here, the Secret Service would remove you quickly were you to broach such issues. Not to mention which "lists" your name would permanently inscribe.

Good is condemned while evil is championed and elevated. Growing up in Amerika.

29 posted on 03/30/2013 1:07:10 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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