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Cankerpuss's avatar

Spot on! That's America's problem. We can't find a balance. The pendulum always swings way too far to one side. I don't think we are intelligent enough as a people to recognize this and correct it. We don't live long enough to do so and we don't have generational memory that is passed on to our children and grand children. That is the curse of humanity. To continually repeat the lessons learned by our ancestors because we refused to teach them to our posterity.

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JohnAZ's avatar

That is the truth. Who is to blame? Easy.

Who refused to swing the pendulum back to the right after the chaos caused by the Dems? Who was as Deep State as the Dems? Who created the thirty years of un-interrupted Leftist trends, especially pertaining to the border. Who started the Anti-Trump RINO movement? Who started unwarranted wars? Hint: a father and his son.

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Cankerpuss's avatar

Bush and baby Bush?

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JohnAZ's avatar

Yup, and their sidekicks, Dick and Liz.

“How dare you beat Jeb Bush in the primaries”, the rallying call of the RINO crowd.

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Lugh's avatar

John wants as little government as possible. He's an open windows fanatic.

Swami Nirmalananda: Civilization is suppression (of our lower impulses).

Never trust anyone who just talks about freedom. It's no better than Obama talking about change. Change to what? Freedom to do what?

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JohnAZ's avatar

Yup! Government by definition is evil as it is the product of collective power mongers. There has never been a benevolent government in history, so why wouldn’t I want it to be as small as possible.

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Lugh's avatar

At multi-hour long seminars, people will keep the windows side open until everyone freezes, then close completely until everyone roasts. Solution? Open them all completely again!

Similarly when it comes to the economy. The answer is not Libertarianism or Communism.

Freedom is important - but so is what you do with that freedom. If all you want to do is make money, well the government is going to have to step in to curb your enthusiasm. Will Kennedy be allowed to stop the abuses in pharma and food? The Tribe is massively invested in both.

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rd3's avatar

Very few people are capable to handling freedom. Most of the sheeple need to be led.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Yeah, and it is the government that has caused the lack of education and knowledge that has put us in this state.

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