| Donald Tees 2006-04-17, 6:55 pm |
| LX-i wrote:
> Joel C. Ewing wrote:
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> So, I take it you disagree? :)
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> Nope - and with that flawed premise, the entire rest of this is flawed.
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> Sounds like socialism to me. If you feel that socialism is so great,
> why not become a citizen of one of the many countries that are already
> socialistic? Why try to turn our republic into one - because you are
> smarter than our founding fathers, I suppose?
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Fuedalism in Europe was one of the things that they were most adamantly
opposed to, according to what I was taught in school. Mind you, I am
Canadian, so was not taught near as much as you about USA history.
Now, if you were also taught about what happened in Britain and Europe,
you will know that feudalism was caused mainly by the concentration of
wealth in the great families, that is, the nobility. The democracies of
the rest of the world evolved by destroying that, mainly by death
duties, though the French took a more direct route.
Once great wealth could be diluted by a couple generations, fuedalism
became a thing of the past.
Until Corporations were invented. Once you have an entity with an
infinite lifespan, it all becomes possible again. You simply do the
exact same thing ... concentrate all the economic power into a few
corporations, and give control of the corporations to the new nobility.
Voila, history repeats. If Bush gets his way, the United States will
eventually also have a revolution. And there is 2000 thousand years of
history to explain how and why, and maybe even when.
Donald
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