To: wardaddy
Mexico lacks that tradition and their citizens swarming here en masse lack that commonality with this nations founders who did the wonderful things you admire. Pat seems to suggest that such an issue is biological one rather than a cultural one. For example, Italians didn't have the Magna Carta as a heritage, but we don't worry about Italian-Americans and their descendants turning America into a papal state if they became too numerous. Same with the Irish and the Eastern Europeans. With Pat, it only seems to be the brown-skinned folk who can't handle democracy now or even generations hence.
168 posted on
04/03/2004 1:09:19 PM PST by
garbanzo
(Free people will set the course of history)
To: garbanzo
Italians were a big part of the Renaissance actually and even the Enlightenment.....oddly Machiavelli was considered Enlightenment.
183 posted on
04/03/2004 1:24:52 PM PST by
wardaddy
(If we don't nut up quick as a nation, we'll be foraging for the eggs of the sooty tern soon enough)
To: garbanzo
With Pat, it only seems to be the brown-skinned folk who can't handle democracy now or even generations hence.Democracy, too, is beside the point. BTW, we are NOT a democracy, and it was on purpose. A whole lot of you "Conservatives" don't seem to be aware of that fact.
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