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To: Kaslin

Link to the Codevilla article that Rush talked at length about:

http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/29/donald-trump-is-the-next-barack-obama/


2 posted on 03/01/2016 1:45:56 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush

I did not hear the call, but I have been chuckling at all the polls that say Hillary will beat Trump. Do Not believe any of it, out here in liberal lala land of Los Angeles, the Majority of Proud Working Class Democrats as well as a rather sizeable percentage of ‘well to do’ Blue Dog Democrats are fully behind and in support of Donald Trump, maybe not in Public, but in Private it is a whole new Ball Game!


7 posted on 03/01/2016 1:52:47 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: gorush

Thanks for the link. The article says it all.


9 posted on 03/01/2016 1:56:02 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: gorush

But not only do opposing sets of wrongs not make anything right. As I have argued (Sophocles did it a lot better), trying to stop the cycle of political payback with another round of it, while not utterly impossible, is well-nigh beyond human capacity. - Codevilla

Victims of Lawful Plunder

Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter — by peaceful or revolutionary means — into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.

Woe to the nation when this latter purpose prevails among the mass victims of lawful plunder when they, in turn, seize the power to make laws! Until that happens, the few practice lawful plunder upon the many, a common practice where the right to participate in the making of law is limited to a few persons. But then, participation in the making of law becomes universal. And then, men seek to balance their conflicting interests by universal plunder. Instead of rooting out the injustices found in society, they make these injustices general. As soon as the plundered classes gain political power, they establish a system of reprisals against other classes. They do not abolish legal plunder. (This objective would demand more enlightenment than they possess.) Instead, they emulate their evil predecessors by participating in this legal plunder, even though it is against their own interests.

It is as if it were necessary, before a reign of justice appears, for everyone to suffer a cruel retribution — some for their evilness, and some for their lack of understanding.

“The Law” - Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)


14 posted on 03/01/2016 2:16:50 PM PST by PGalt
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