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To: unclewest who wrote (557615)	6/12/2014 7:50:11 AM
From: LindyBill	7 Recommendations Recommended By alanrs bejay gamesmistress mistermj pheilman_ and 2 more members Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

Since the beginning of Islam, that culture has never known political freedom. It's not designed to have it, and the way the culture is set up they will never get it. Centuries will have to pass. A Anglo-Saxon culture can handle it. It looks like some Asian cultures can. I don't know if a Russian culture ever can, it hasn't so far. The most repressive Gov's have been Asian ones in the last century. China. Cambodia. Using a Euro model. We came the closest to personal freedom, and have been losing it ever since about 1900. Every decade we have less personal freedom than we had before. We like the idea of personal freedom, but will give it up in an instant for security. Look at what we are putting up with since 911. The most hopeful thing I see is that the rise of Libertarianism now gives people a philosophy that is tied to freedom. When we had the most personal freedom, say from after the civil war to 1910 or so, we really had no organized philosophy out there articulating it. Our founders understood where they wanted us to go but the whole of the system had not been fleshed out yet. The organized philosophy on the rise was socialism, and we did not see how evil it was. The opposition was disorganized against it. Still is today. Conservatism is not free enterprise. But it's what still runs the Right and the Republican party. They are still holding up prior models of business and religion that are flawed and wanting to return to them, which is impossible. We are finally in an ideological war between personal freedom system and a State system. Socialism is the "Death Star" and we are the rebels. That's great! We are now able to articulate our side from a ideological basis and this fact is driving the Left nuts! We need to approach every political problem with the question, "does the proposed solution give us more personal freedom or take some away? "