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A Victory for Creatures of the State

Hard Thought Wrote: Nov 09, 2012 11:15 AM

Look at the map of the election results and you will see what I am talking about. Blue states: crowd millions of people into areas of limited economic opportunities for average people, be unable to meet your obligations and then demand that the government fix the problem. OR Move to an area where hard work is rewarded, work, budget your resources, prosper and live a life that is rewarding and earned. The contrast is shown, vividly, in the results on the electoral results map.

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A Victory for Creatures of the State

The Progressives won on Tuesday.

I don't mean the people who voted Democrat who call themselves "progressive." Though they won, too.

I mean the Progressives who've been waging a century-long effort to transform our American-style government into a European-style state.

The words "government" and "state" are often used interchangeably, but they are really different things. According to the founders' vision, the people are sovereign and the government belongs to us. Under the European notion of the state, the people are creatures of the state, significant only as parts of the whole.

This European version of the state can be nice. One...