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

To: Thomas M. who wrote (502401)	12/2/2003 6:17:45 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

An interesting amalgamation of ideas... (some of which I disagree with quite a lot). But this: "and in America it goes back to a group of colonists called the Puritans, the Taliban of the 1600's, who came here to practice religious repression because the English church was not restrictive enough." Is an idea I'm conversant with. IMO, two of the most fundamental poles, pulling to influence the American character, and with us since before our nation officially began, are the Puritanical pole and the Libertarian (oft called "Jeffersonian") pole. Somewhere in that conflict, you can find Americans. As to "the principled bookish America of the Constitution" being "no longer mainstream America, being a 'marginal America'"; were that truly so, were the game of Democracy and individual rights actually up --- I would no longer recognize my country.