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To: goldworldnet who wrote (276557)	10/25/2008 4:02:31 AM
From: LindyBill	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 793843

I like very much how you phrased this. For me it reflects original Americanism and war with those who would prefer this country to be another Europe. It's the reason the French Revolution failed and the American one succeeded. Our founders understood the fallacy of the "strong man," and built in checks and balances. The French were all "kill the King" and ended up with another one. The French never understood our revolution because they were not readers of Locke. They welcomed the man who integrated the basic ideas, Thomas Paine, then jailed him when he protested their reign of terror. Thomas Sowell does an excellent job of describing this in his book, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles amazon.com I consider Sowell our best living Philosopher. It is ironic that in the same year, 1776, that Tom Paine wrote "Common Sense" and integrated Individualism and the Enlightenment for America, Kant wrote Critique of Pure Reason, which Hegel and Marx used as their basis for the destruction of those two concepts. Ayn Rand put it: "Plato, Hegel and Kant. Three destroyers of the modern world." I add in Marx and Rousseau to that miserable group.

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