Substitute North and South and that is exactly what is happening on these threads and has been for the last 7 years.
Truth is a huge casualty in all the discussions over the war for not many are really interested in it. The agenda here is to make sure one side remains untarnished and the other side remains unburnished. That is what all the spinning, lying, and disseminating is about. It is the only game being played out on these threads.
And when called on it... either side... then the howls and insincere protests of innocence begins.
Agenda and not truth. That is the only way most can carry on their campaign against the other side with a straight face.
My basic argument has always been that American history has seen the sad playing-out of a destructive tendency which was present at the Philadelphia Convention, at the beginning, and which now threatens American exceptionalism, as unlimited-government, access capitalists and Marxist-collectivist termites labor in tandem to assimilate America to a despotic new world-state.
My personal view of American history to this point is that the tendency has been for the American people to lose sight of their rights and liberties and to fail to defend them, as members of hustling, self-promoting elite groups claim more and more discretion and decision-making for themselves, and seek to reduce the People to a "resource base" at the bottom of a typical social pyramid and concurrently consign their Bill of Rights to an Orwellian "memory hole".
Even Ronald Reagan couldn't keep the pigs from the trough or the rats from getting at the baby.
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