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Earl Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 6:45 AM

Paul is perceptive. In 2008, Barack Obama used a movie analogy about Chicago gangland warfare. "They bring a knife, we'll bring a gun." Well, Republicans brought the proverbial pen of truth while the Obama campaign brought the proverbial guns and knives of deceit, propaganda, and empty promises. Repubicans expected more than 50 percent of American voters might actually think about their political commitments and not be swayed by Rap singers and washed up, Rust Belt crooners. The dumming down of America is in full bloom. Ultimately, we fail if our education systems fail. We have to ask the right questions and then equip people with the basic knowledge to pursue those questions. Until then, it's "Forward" or "Change." Woe is us.

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E1776 Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 9:04 AM

We are Rome in the final throes with our social policy, in the '30s big guvmint, big debt economic policy. The barbarians, Communists hold sway. And we did it to ourselves.

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Earl Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 9:54 AM

So did Rome. Barbarians didn't come thundering out of northern Europe to lay siege to the walls of Rome. Rather, they infiltrated over centuries, inter-marrying with the Romans--mostly soldiers who retired along the frontier. Romans lived in a "one-percenter" slave society where emperors bought support with low-priced bread and games. In the end, one barbarian chieftain overthrew a barbarian emperor and Europe entered the Dark Ages. The good news was that over time the energy of northern Europe meshed with the classics of the Mediterranean (kept alive by the Catholic Church and Islamic universities) to form Western European culture from whence we eventually drew our values based on Locke and a handful of others,

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Earl Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 9:58 AM

The bad news is, the energy of European culture on these shores is disappearing rapidly as it's overcome with Latin-American and African cultural influences, of which we have gotten the worst aspects exacerbated by history and diluted over the years. Unless we reform (and i mean RE-FORM) our values and culture substantially, the future will look Orwellian at best. We are, indeed, slouching toward Gommorah.

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Topeka Wrote: Nov 08, 2012 10:37 AM

Earl,

I wouldn't be so sure about the Dark Ages - Attila, e.g., didn't burn the libraries and tried to get the idiots work with him for months before he actually sacked Rome.

The Dark Ages arose b/c the slave economy destroyed the incentive to be civilized. Why should Germans support Rome when all they get is taxes, lies, and slavery? To support the elite/welfare complex on the Med.

Actually - it sounds like today - and the German "barbarians" really want the EU "Rome" to go "Dark Age" and more power to 'em!

Whatever happens - the Howard Zinn's of the future will blame German engineers for not supporting the "Civilized" EU and call it "Dark Age 2" even while the Germans are leading the fight to save civilization.

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America's Fundamental Transformation

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