[A'elian' nation]

Of course I know your reply will be to remind me that all the Progressive rot to which we have descended originated in the Germanic Prussian state.

Just wanted to save you the effort :)

[Ohioan]

While the modern "Welfare State" may have been associated with developments in Bismark's Prussia, the driving force behind the modern Left would be better understood--in my opinion--as having flown from the fantasies promoted by the French Jacobins in the previous century.

The inevitable conflict in any State allowing popular suffrage is between Liberty & Equality, as positive values. The Jacobins, in a form of self-hypnotic madness, believed that they were somehow kindred notions.

I fear that most of the dancing around the effect of changing demographics in changing values, in looking at what are more often symptoms than causes of the drastic changes in social & political attitudes, flows from a similar confusion among educated Americans. Our educational institutions, after all, seldom challenge the Jacobin fantasy, even after more than two centuries of repeated demonstrations that the coupling of "Liberty & Equality," leads inevitably to confused direction.

William Flax

[LS]

Yet the Germans were the first to observe common law, the English second.