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To: Iris7
"One man one vote" cannot survive. Either the left will disenfranchise us, or we disenfranchise them.

Can you elaborate on this?

46 posted on 04/27/2003 8:11:31 PM PDT by lurky
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To: lurky
All my life I have seen a steady increase in nihilism and license. History shows this has been a steady progression over time in America since at least 1800. Rousseauan ideas become increasingly accepted. Moral arguments become less and less effective. This trend is "left". It is the major cultural trend in the West since the "Renaissance". It is possible to track similar trends in the ancient world and in Chinese history, although I am not very familiar with either. That is why Cicero is interesting.

What cleared up the Ancient World's depravity was Christianity. (And incredibly hard times.) I can see nothing similar happening in the modern world for the foreseable future.

FreeRepublic entertains many old fashioned people, not terribly learned or articulate, bless them, and a small town, rather Nineteenth Century ethos. I like it. On the other hand, this will not be a successful defense against the "left" aspect of modernity. Take France and Germany as proof. Or Dalrymple's writing on English culture. Or the state of any big city USA. (And increasingly the small towns.)

So much for the big picture. On the near term new middle class jobs will be very rare. There is no reason to expect any real economic "recovery" until the excesses of the Bubble have been worked through. This could take a decade or more because of half measures applied to the problem. (The economic medicine applied will not be enough to cure but only prolong, as happened in the 30's. It will mostly be the wrong medicine as well.) There will be enough pain to shift a majority of voters to the left. Right now the situation is balanced, but another 10 or 20 million middle class jobs disappearing will change this.

If you want more brass tacks, look at the Democratic Party's behavior during this administration. They have many very smart, very ambitious people. They are acting according to a plan based on a view of the future not disimilar to mine. They will fight to the death to stop any tax cutting, regulatory reform, judicial reform, or legal reform that would in fact lead to recovery. They will blame without pause the Republicans for the increasingly dismal situation. When they gain power they will do whatever they believe it takes to insure that they cannot ever be dislodged. Political opposition will be suppressed.

There you go, plain as day.

54 posted on 04/28/2003 1:51:06 AM PDT by Iris7 (Sufficient for evil to triumph is for good people to be imprudent.)
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