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To: bagster
Common Sense is obviously a reference to Thomas Paine's pamphlet (the highest selling title in American history).

It might be well to look at that document itself for edification. In it Paine lays out two separate tyrannies: monarchical and aristocratic - which in his day was the king and peers. There's was a system by family - hereditary in nature and as he noted, these families contributed nothing to the people (the commons). How like that has the American system today become? Family dynasties in politics.

He wrote about the English system of making war and then paying off with spoils those who are loyal to royal system - the loyal servants - by turning them into Lords and gifting them with land and income.

"A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived."

Emphasis mine. How like this has America once again become?

2,030 posted on 08/01/2018 12:50:26 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

BTW, Common Sense was originally published on January 10, 1776.


2,035 posted on 08/01/2018 12:52:59 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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