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To: j g cordes who wrote (16223)	1/22/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

JG: Eloquently stated, but misses the mark in some key areas: A. One faction has already "taken over" - federalism. There was a great debate about this and almost another revolution back in the 1780s about centralizing government power because of the fears of it evolving into what it did during the 19th Century and later coalesced into the modern-day juggernaut we see today under the heavy-handed tutelage of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR, JFK, Johnson and Nixon. That is why today so many are apathetic regarding politics. They sense that both parties are two sides to the same coin. Both Republicans and Democrats are heading in the same general direction, one party is running, the other walking. B. JFK's message was that he believed the individual should serve the State. C. The so-called "Great Society" was neither. Instead it was a philosophically bankrupt, nightmarish vision of a collectivist, power-mad president. D. Socialism's only long-run "strength" is to empower a few individuals at the expense of disempowering most individuals. Father Terrence