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To: SeekAndFind

It’s been there since Woodrow Wilson if not earlier and it’s not going anywhere


3 posted on 07/05/2018 8:48:50 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: mrmeyer

Exactly. Statist ideologies have existed in one form or another since nation states were first developed. Modern statist ideologies derived from Marxism starting in the mid 1800s. Marxism, communism, fascism, Nazism, socialism...all are malevolent iterations of statism. They all subjugate the individual to the state. The idea of the rights of the individual gradually evolved out of The Enlightenment period in the 1700s, culminating in the first and greatest triumph of individual rights with the American Revolution. It is what makes the United States of America exceptional.


12 posted on 07/05/2018 9:39:40 AM PDT by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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