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Civil Wars All Around
American Thinker ^ | 6-2-2017 | David Archibald

Posted on 06/02/2017 6:40:55 AM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 06/02/2017 6:40:55 AM PDT by blam
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To: Black Agnes

Ping.


2 posted on 06/02/2017 6:41:29 AM PDT by blam
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To: Jack Black; Tilted Irish Kilt

Ping.


3 posted on 06/02/2017 6:44:15 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: blam

When you have lost the Army, you have lost....


4 posted on 06/02/2017 6:49:59 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: blam

Those 4 million white people need leave... NOW.


5 posted on 06/02/2017 7:02:23 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: blam

The persistent problem in much of central and South America is what I call “Old Europe disease”. At the time of the conquest, Europe was still in the throes of monarchical feudalism of the kind just emerging from the Middle Ages.

This meant there were only two official classes, nobility and peasantry, under a form of Roman Law, that was dictated by the nobility. Wealth was concentrated with the nobility.

And this was translated to central and South America, and still exists there to this day.

Take Mexico for example. It is ruled by, and owned by, just a dozen wealthy families, who do not believe in sharing the wealth. In fact they oppose the idea of other people getting wealth, and go to lengths to prevent it.

Venezuela was much the same way, but even more extreme, a wealthy few ruling over grinding poverty for the many.

But the reaction to this is socialism, radical egalitarianism. If not to raise the poor, it is to strip the wealthy of wealth and power.

Yet this is its weak point. If they do have a revolution, and former peasants are now the leaders, they are still a part of the nobility and peasantry Old Europe system. They enrich themselves as the “new nobility”, yet still try to keep the poor in poverty.

This sounds quite ridiculous to Americans, whose nation was effectively founded a hundred years later, after the English Civil War and considerably greater democracy, and ability for all to gain wealth. And even that was not enough for the founding fathers, true believers in equality of opportunity, and with a great disdain for nobility.

So Americans have no problem with all, if they are making money, for other Americans to also make money.

But central and South America are caught between being ruled by a greedy wealthy class or out of control socialism tearing everything apart.


6 posted on 06/02/2017 7:03:55 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Baizuo" A derogatory term the Chinese are using to describe America's naive "White Left")
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To: miliantnutcase

Those are refugees I would welcome. Not because they are white, but because they would work to contribute to our society.


7 posted on 06/02/2017 7:05:19 AM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: null and void

Agreed. mainly we could accept all of their women.


8 posted on 06/02/2017 7:21:39 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

It’s quite amazing to Americans because even here in the US people below the “poverty line” have tangible wealth compared to those in the third world.


9 posted on 06/02/2017 7:24:58 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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You do know the penalty for polygamy, don't you???
10 posted on 06/02/2017 7:29:04 AM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: miliantnutcase

This is the only time and place in all of history where the poor people are fat.


11 posted on 06/02/2017 7:29:49 AM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: null and void

The penalty should be you actually have to marry them all. :-)


12 posted on 06/02/2017 7:33:34 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: miliantnutcase

Bingo!


13 posted on 06/02/2017 7:39:38 AM PDT by null and void ( The Flat Earth Society claims they have members all around the globe!)
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To: TADSLOS; Absolutely Nobama; afnamvet; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; An Old Man; APatientMan; ...
Hat tip to TADSLOS, yeah this one is on target. I gotta do it: CW II ping.


14 posted on 06/02/2017 7:40:44 AM PDT by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy; DuncanWaring
Another perspective on the issue
15 posted on 06/02/2017 7:43:36 AM PDT by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
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To: null and void

Poly mothers-in-law?


16 posted on 06/02/2017 7:47:59 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Noumenon

That does explain a major root-cause of the problems “south of the border”.


17 posted on 06/02/2017 7:54:01 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: blam

Not to mention that its about 50-50 chance to happen here.


18 posted on 06/02/2017 7:55:34 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: miliantnutcase

The ones who were going to leave left years ago. Those 4 million are the diehards who will go down with the ship.


19 posted on 06/02/2017 8:05:40 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Between the multiplication of nagging, followed by the multiplication of divorce settlements, polygamy seems to be a penalty in and of itself.


20 posted on 06/02/2017 8:07:02 AM PDT by Boogieman
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