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Freedom across the ages beats ignorant tyranny. We can build a better future if we don't kill the past and its lessons. (A Personal Post. Vanity?)
https://tujuhbelasan.com/ ^ | 15th January, 2021, American time | Ozguy1945

Posted on 01/15/2021 8:08:05 AM PST by Ozguy1945

Who and what we are is a huge determinant of what we can be.

A Biden presidency born in stripping his predecessor of the basic right to speak cannot end well.

Can Biden find a way to be magnanimous to Donald Trump?


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1 posted on 01/15/2021 8:08:05 AM PST by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945

Can Biden find a way to be magnanimous to Donald Trump?

no


2 posted on 01/15/2021 8:09:33 AM PST by devane617 ('It's Only Donuts Ma'am')
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To: Ozguy1945

“Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”


3 posted on 01/15/2021 8:12:18 AM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

INDEED. And the last 4 years has proven him right. Sad for America.


4 posted on 01/15/2021 8:18:39 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: amorphous

“Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”

....... could a smaller purer red state America secede and survive?


5 posted on 01/15/2021 8:21:21 AM PST by Ozguy1945 (, many others)
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....... could a smaller purer red state America secede and survive?

No, the same agencies who assisted Mao in his revolution are the ones silencing Trump and all of us!
6 posted on 01/15/2021 8:35:44 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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Can Biden find a way to be magnanimous to Donald Trump?
With all due respect, are you trolling? A usurper be magnanimous? Certainly he is looking the other way while online platforms are attempting to cancel Trump, just for starters.
7 posted on 01/15/2021 8:43:56 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Ozguy1945

Okay; you are definitely trolling.


8 posted on 01/15/2021 8:44:36 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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....... could a smaller purer red state America secede and survive?

Give me a land where the murder of the innocent is against the law of that land. That land I will pick up and move to, and defend.

"Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues"

9 posted on 01/15/2021 9:15:41 AM PST by amorphous
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“Certainly he is looking the other way while online platforms are attempting to cancel Trump, just for starters.”

Trump as president was/is a deeply flawed genius.

But easily the worst thing done by him or anyone else with respect to his presidency was the way he was deplatformed at the end by Big Tech.

To cut a POTUS off from his supporters was like a dagger in the heart of democracy.

Do you still think I am a troll?


10 posted on 01/21/2021 5:36:26 AM PST by Ozguy1945 (, many others)
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If you don’t understand Biden, then you don't understand the left. He was silent while Trump was “canceled” by big tech. Given what he did to Robert Bork earlier in his career, magnanimity is both not in his psyche nor is it a word he can pronounce at this point.

The United States is not a democracy; it is a republic. As Woodrow Wilson once wrote, “socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same”. And in The Principles of Communism, Engels wrote:
What will be the course of this (communistic) revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. […]

In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie and use it in the interests of the proletariat—that is, with the agrarian National Reformers. …
However, the Constitution as written was not as democratic as the left would have liked; hence the introduction (or imposition, if history is scrutinized) of Amendments 16 (which instituted the income tax, concurrent with the second plank of communism, “A heavy progressive or graduated income tax”) and 17 (which destroyed the representation of state governments in the federal government by making Senators directly elected; instead, the Senators became beholden to lobbies).

So with this understanding of democracy per se, if you take anything away from your time on this forum, I hope it is the reason why patriotic Americans have disdain for democracy and the differences between democracy and republicanism.
11 posted on 01/21/2021 11:01:03 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

thank you for your erudition

the insights therein are among many wonderful things i have learnt on FR


12 posted on 01/22/2021 6:46:07 AM PST by Ozguy1945 (, many others)
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