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To: americanophile
A bit hysterical today aren't we?

I don't think so. 2000 years or so ago, Titus Livy, in the introduction to his monumental history of Rome remarked that his purpose in writing was "to trace the progress of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them."

That was then and this is now, but human nature hasn't changed much at all since then. Look at who we're dealing with - these are people who regard Orwell's 1984 as a textbook, not a cautionary tale. Do you propose to go quietly into that dark socialist night? At the end of the day, will you too love Big Brother?

If we let these monsters have their way, there will be no going back. We need to think about what we're going to build on the ashes - or there will be nothing BUT ashes..

39 posted on 05/07/2009 3:41:18 PM PDT by Noumenon (As long as I have a rifle, I STILL have a vote...)
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To: Noumenon
A breakup of our democracy would be civil war, and that would require a complete failure of our democratic system....there would be nothing but ashes. If it comes to that, I imagine all civilization will be reduced along with us...there is no post-democratic-American civilization...it's lights out for us all.
48 posted on 05/07/2009 3:49:29 PM PDT by americanophile
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