A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Bullshit. I live in a rural area that has become more populated over the years I've lived here. A few minorities have moved here and I get along with them just fine. I have a large back yard and I allow some of the local kids to play football there. It's funny kids aren't racist when they play football because there are also minorities who play with them. I don't care if they play there, as long as they understand I'm not responsible if they get hurt.
Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.
ThatOwlWoman (03-22-2018)
From outside, the question of racism seems to depend very much on its sources. In most of Europe, it was a way of defending imperialism, so that the racism was always mixed up with notions of raising up these inferior people to our level (i.e. when you think about it, it was not about 'race' in the long run). In the 'States it was about the defence of the indefensible, slavery, and thefore had to be driven in much deeper. If you add to this the obsessive competitiveness between American 'national' groups, with its desperate need for someone to be 'bottom', you can see that racism will be hugely deeper-rooted. Naturally, the more progressive parties, the ones with contacts with outside civilization, will tend to be the less racist, the Republicans originally but more and more later, the Democrats. Pity socialism grew so slowly over there, or you might be quite civilized by now!
Last edited by iolo; 03-22-2018 at 08:51 AM.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
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