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To: Dumb_Ox
Why we're letting a traumatized refugee from Communist Russia tell us what America is all about, I don't know.

Then tell us what the US of A is about. Is it about the law of the jungle or is it about privileges granted to citizens by the state?

31 posted on 05/14/2006 5:13:55 AM PDT by NMC EXP (Choose one: [a] party [b] principle.)
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To: NMC EXP
Then tell us what the US of A is about. Is it about the law of the jungle or is it about privileges granted to citizens by the state?

It's not about anything. We aren't a proposition nation, or a nation with a creed. Otherwise, I'm a heretic or an apostate from this civil religion, and so are many other people.

What the US Constitution is about, what the State constitutions are about, what the Declaration is about, that's a question possible to answer: Limited republican government, with predictable laws applicable and accountable to everyone, and a dedication to justice on a human, rather than cosmic scale. Rand tried to generate an ideological nationalism, which is neither a good idea nor particularly conservative.

37 posted on 05/14/2006 1:24:47 PM PDT by Dumb_Ox (http://kevinjjones.blogspot.com)
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