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To: American Spirit who wrote (263787)	12/8/2005 1:03:39 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572336

"And look what happened to the Romans." Yeah, they only lasted more than a millenia and shaped history. The US has something the Romans didn't. And that is the Constitution. The importance of this document, and the Federalist Papers which support it, cannot be overstated. Both could be the basis of the most liberal empire or hegemony in history. The fact of the matter is that the US is founded on the greatest philosophy of individual empowerment that has ever existed. None of the other philosophies come any where close. Marxism,which could have built upon the American experience, failed. The good of Marxism was already subsumed in the American labor movement. Why does the rest of the world celebrate an event in American history for Labor Day? A day that is ignored in the the US? Because it was especially seminal, and Americans view it with shame. The Haymarket riot happened. Not only that, but the Populist Movement that fed it, also happened. Between the two, that shaped what most of the world, sans the US, see as the focus of the Liberal movement. We, not the Marxists, are the orginators of the Liberals. In every country but the US, Liberals are the champions of what is right. Anti-liberals are the one that favor the status quo. They are the ones that favor the ones that don't want change because it upsets their applecart. A US led empire or hegemony holds the promise of bringing most of the world to a egalitarian point that is unequaled in history. Don't let yourself get misled by the neocons that advocate something that seems simular. they don't value the Constitution that rules most American psyches. The Constitution is unique and it is important. It paves the way to a world that has never existed.