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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (80032)	6/7/2023 8:39:32 AM
From: The Ox	6 Recommendations Recommended By Clam digger Hayduke Qone0 Sokka Sun Tzu and 1 more member Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 97958

You have a lot to learn, my friend. There are so many "liberal" policies that deserve your ire, but the concept that conservative's main focus is to help their neighbors and the common man is just bunk. We need both conservatives and liberals to help keep the other side in check. The farther right the "right" gets is more about greed than it is living in a communal society. The farther the left the "left" gets, can be more about punishing those who've "profited" and creating a "victim" society. Lee, I hope you learn to remove some of the anger from your commentary. I know you basically want more for yourself and others but being liberal in and of itself is not a disease. Too much Fox News and their constant vitriol....the evil left, the evil immigrants, anyone not Caucasian must be viewed with skepticism.

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (80032)	6/7/2023 8:55:49 AM
From: Sun Tzu	4 Recommendations Recommended By edward miller Lee Lichterman III Qone0 The Ox Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97958

I've been reading a lot of history lately. Not just the US, but global. And my conclusion is that the world has always been shitty. There have been great people throughout history, but there have been no great societies or social classes. Young or old, everyone is free to, and should, fight the structures that prevent them from living the life they want. What you miss is that the rules and traditions are most often made to keep the upper classes in warm cushy seats. E.g. don't question God is designed to keep the priesthood in power. It took eons for it to give way to understanding why God is right (that was the whole purpose of Milton behind writing Paradise Lost). Which eventually changed to debate about the existence of God. The South dressed up its rebellion as fight for values and traditions. The reality is that they could have modernized their farming and many aspects of their lives, but it had two unacceptable drawbacks: (1) Economically they would have to share profits with the industrial North. This could have been resolved peacefully. BUT more importantly, (2) socially they needed the slaves so that the underprivileged white poor had someone to look down upon and not rebell. Psychologically, the slaves made life bearable for the white trash. Without them, the white poor would rebel because they would see their lives for what it was. Having the slaves made a structure - "you can lord over the blacks, and we can lord over you, this is the order of things." They got the suckers to come fight for them so that they can keep them poor and exploited. BTW, the North were no angels either. The war was not about slavery for the Northern leaders. And abolishing slavery (which came way later) was a geopolitical stratagem to get the slaves flee the south in order to reduce their labor force. Read about the shogunate Japan, often so idealized in the movies. What an absolute shitshow! Europe? Which part and what era? Name it and I will tell you what the traditional value life was really like for the people. . The world has been continuously making social progress because young people have given the finger to what did not work for them. Like natural evolution, social evolution gets it wrong far more often than it gets it right. That's just the nature of evolution - it is messy. But it is the only way forward.