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If they impose Socialism, people will tire of it, and the pendulum will swing back... it always has, always does. Then we will remember for awhile why we didn't like it, until we forget, and some begin to think it is a good idea again.

And there are an awful lot of tyrants on the right. Go visit the Religion forum and it won't take you long to find them.

I am on "your side"... I don't feel I need governing, but I think we have gotten too big, too populous and too diverse to ever be able to operate like the Shire, unfortunately.

"If they impose Socialism, people will tire of it"

Well the Russians did, that's true.

"And there are an awful lot of tyrants on the right. Go visit the Religion forum and it won't take you long to find them. "

Some of those folks are definitely tyrants, they strike me as being cut from the same cloth as the radical Muslims.

"I think we have gotten too big, too populous and too diverse to ever be able to operate like the Shire, unfortunately."

You're probably right...I've pretty much decided that the momentum of our tradition is one of the stronger forces keeping us free at this point. I do think that our founding fathers' vision was not too far off Tolkien's vision of the "Shire." 'Course now we need strength beyond the Shire to keep us safe from a great evil.

And there are an awful lot of tyrants on the right. Go visit the Religion forum and it won't take you long to find them.

Hey! You talkin' about me?

It has been two weeks since my last post in the Religion Forum. My name is Corin and I'm a freepaholic...