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Hillary Clinton has been a self-professed avowed Communitarian for over thirty years !
Heh. We're already a nation in chains. It's called "easy credit". Solvency gives the individual a chance to control their own destiny. If an unforseen event occurs, threatening the entire economic structure with massive debt default, the public will be at the mercy of the federal gov't to either bail them out or face disaster. We will all be welfare recipients on that day...
The Groton influence of Endicott Peabody showed in a speech Roosevelt gave at the People's Forum in Troy, NY in 1912. There he declared that western Europeans and Americans had achieved victory in the struggle for "the liberty of the individual," and that the new agenda should be a "struggle for the liberty of the community." The wrong ethos for a new age was, "every man does as he sees fit, even with a due regard to law and order." The new order should be, "march on with civilization in a way satisfactory to the well-being of the great majority of us."
In that speech Roosevelt outlined the philosophical base of what would eventually become the New Deal. He also forecast the rhetorical mode by which "community" could loom over individual liberty. "If we call the method regulation, people hold up their hands in horror and say ‘un-American,' or ‘dangerous,'" Roosevelt pointed out. "But if we call the same identical process co-operation, these same old fogeys will cry out ‘well done'.... cooperation is as good a word for the new theory as any other."
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