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To: elmatador who wrote (26640)	12/18/2007 4:04:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217884

It's amazing how countries [and families] can go from rags to glory to rags in just a few generations as the cultural norms which made them great are ditched by their dissolute descendants. A few hundred years ago, the British made excellent slaves for Barbary Coast pirates. They were mere serfs to their masters at home. Then they established "On Liberty" and all the good things combined with the industrial revolution and around the world, people flocked to the ideology. Then, the great dark cloud of Karl Marx descended over the world and socialism remains the suffocatocracy, kleptocracy and "world owes me a living" mantra for the democratic mob to vote itself rich. England and France led the world. Now they are more like human dumps! Great things like the Millau bridge notwithstanding. While the Islamic Jihad immigrants have shifted the culture heavily in favour of where they came from, there's a lot more to the decline than that recent effect which is more like a failed culture being taken over by a mass-production invader. Virtuous Victorian Values are sneered at these days. Mqurice