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To: RetiredNow who wrote (318169)	1/1/2007 12:18:17 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) of 1572099

>Time and time again, history has proven that autocracies that repress their people's freedom of thought and expression, while repressing market economies, don't stand the test of time. I think that's BS... maybe it holds true for the last half-millennium or so, but prior to that, weren't most governments such autocracies? Many of them lasted centuries. I'm not saying that I'd rather have such an autocracy than a reasonable free-market economy and a lack of repression, but we're working with a really small sample size and most of us are American exceptionalists... America has lasted for almost 250 years possibly because of many factors other than its nature of government and economy (such as its geographic isolation, wealth of natural resources, immense size, and its ruthless, expansionary nature). Plenty of governments have lasted longer in the past... America has just lasted longest now (not even sure if that's true), and just like every world power before us, we give the reasons that we want to explain our being on top. -Z

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