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To: Vigilanteman

The Supreme Court has Mohammad, the Law Giver on it’s facade. Mohammad was seen as an agent of progress against pagan Arabs.

Further there is a lot of Nordic socialism in Mormon thought and cultural recruitment and ideas from up state New York, across the Mid West.

Frankly, Mormon thought, conservatism, radicalism of its core religious thinking is a mess.

I wouldn’t be so sure nor strong about Mormons and conservative thinking if you meant limited government and free enterprise. The very ideas of Nauvoo, and later Utah, are very oppressive with the idea of total Mormon control, through government( amongst other institutions ). Not to mention the close knit, clannish, economics, for better or worse.

One of the things that I think made RomneyCare so attractive to Mitt was his coming from an, to me, smothering, even blood libal in older times, patriartical, elders know best, Nordic, and close set Mormon ideas of the relationship of the individual, the state and the religion. Something the Taliban, Communists, even nice Swedish leftists feel. The foundations are the same, very very close tabs and various group pressures on the individual.


30 posted on 03/30/2009 3:01:05 PM PDT by Leisler ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Leisler
Cute anecodatal observations smothered by the facts of actual voting in counties dominated by Mormons such as Utah County, Utah or Madison County, Idaho, both homes to large church universities and young people that Oba Mao won over 2-1 in the rest of the county and couldn't even crack 20% here. Find me any sect which Oba Mao performed so poorly among, particularly amoung their young.
34 posted on 03/30/2009 7:34:41 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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