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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (119634)	12/26/2000 9:37:38 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

The next civil war will be against Draconian government indeed. And I think the forces against government will lose terribly, but not without causing great pain. American government is almost innately united, and as the world grows smaller this fact will become even more important during our next internal war. Those who seriously oppose government’s over-centralisation are too small and disunited. Many of them, while opposing government, are so hooked on government that should our government fold they could not well survive. Americans are dreadfully out of shape-- dreadful soft and fat. But the trend is against increasingly powerful government. At some point, our government will become so Draconian many Americans will fight against it because they will not care to live in an oppressed society. Wars are not usually about just one thing and only one thing. But there are catalysts that serve to bring together major players unlike any other. Slavery was the catalyst for the last war. It was the match without which the fires of war never would have blazed, the primary and as one Confederate general put it, “the immediate cause of the woeful conflict.”