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To: MississippiMan
We need voters and candidates.

I don't fully agree with the good people, good intentions thing. In addition, their politics must be correct, legal, moral. ie: candidates must obey the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If the candidate is well steeped in these rules, then the fear is more of the system killing the candidate than of him being perverted by the system.

I don't know that we have time -- the generation(s) to get it done -- but I do think a move to educate the population in order to produce votes for candidates that would follow the Constitution and Bill of Rights is worth the try.

Brains, Bullhorns and Ballots can hopefully keep the bullets and blood out of it.
17 posted on 04/17/2003 10:05:18 AM PDT by FreeRadical (Buy Kids Books & Guns. Help them love liberty & hate the nanny state.)
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To: FreeRadical
I don't know that we have time -- the generation(s) to get it done --

That's my point. IMHO the bulk of the damage has occurred over the past hundred years or so and I think reversal at this point is all but impossible.

To briefly explain why I believe this, take our current situation. Right now we're in arguably the "ideal" state, with allegedly the best party controlling the White House and Congress. Other than seeing the White House returning to a place of respect and a few things that flow from that, what's the difference? Political correctness still grows by the day. The liberals are in FIRM control of the minds of the masses, beginning with an iron grip on the education system and continuing control of adults through the joke that our mainstream media are. Bluntly put, the best we can now hope to accomplish wihtin our system is a slight slowing of the growth of insanity in our government.

An actual reversal of the insanity is impossible for me to imagine. Can anyone here realistically picture a coming time during which government handouts are cut off? Or when all able-bodied prisoners are subjected to hard labor that will make a return trip most unenticing? A repeal of the immorality that the progressive tax system is? In all these areas, again, all I can picture under the best case scenario is a slight retardation of the growth.

MM

21 posted on 04/17/2003 10:34:31 AM PDT by MississippiMan
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