amicus
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This thought came to mind during an episode of Ken Burns, ‘The War”, that described the reaction of Americans at the death of FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1945, near the end of World War Two.
What follows is a simplification and a wide generalization, of course, which I am well known for, but bear with me, even that method of exposition has benefits.
From the inception of the American Nation, place that date where you wish, there has been a conflict between those Colonists who desired a semblance to a Monarchy, from which they migrated, and those who desired another, ill defined form of government, called a Republic.
That which we call individual freedom, the implementation of which is Capitalism, was a new discovery, a new path to explore, an uncharted horizon, as it had never been traveled before.
Everyone knew what a totalitarianism Monarchy, rule by Kings and Courts, would entail, but no one knew, because it had never been tried before, what a Constitutional Republic would bring about.
It has been a long and winding road (McCartney song), as to how those two opposite desires would conflict and continue, and it continues, yet today.
Each generation seems to face a reaffirmation of those differences and we are no different as opposing forces battle for supremacy.
Here on the AH forum, a microcosm of world events, we spit and spat to define left and right, liberal and conservative, right and wrong, good and bad, freedom or slavery and although you may think, little changes, it does, but very slowly.
Perhaps unintended, for those of you who followed the entire Ken Burns series, ‘The War”, left an impression that one should be prepared to defend human rights at all costs and be prepared to pre-empt efforts by tyrants to annul those basic human values.
In 1933 there were 9 million people of Jewish ancestry in Europe, two thirds were exterminated, 6 million humans eliminated, at the direction of a centralized, totalitarian dictatorship. The answer to the question, could that have been prevented?, is inconsequential; what is of consequence is if we are will willing, as a people, to prevent it from happening again.
Democrats, the left, the modern Liberals, advocate a strong central government, that has absolute control over human affairs; that is where the danger lies. Not in those who give value to human individual rights.
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I know…I go ‘off’, every once in a while…what else is new?
Amicus…
What follows is a simplification and a wide generalization, of course, which I am well known for, but bear with me, even that method of exposition has benefits.
From the inception of the American Nation, place that date where you wish, there has been a conflict between those Colonists who desired a semblance to a Monarchy, from which they migrated, and those who desired another, ill defined form of government, called a Republic.
That which we call individual freedom, the implementation of which is Capitalism, was a new discovery, a new path to explore, an uncharted horizon, as it had never been traveled before.
Everyone knew what a totalitarianism Monarchy, rule by Kings and Courts, would entail, but no one knew, because it had never been tried before, what a Constitutional Republic would bring about.
It has been a long and winding road (McCartney song), as to how those two opposite desires would conflict and continue, and it continues, yet today.
Each generation seems to face a reaffirmation of those differences and we are no different as opposing forces battle for supremacy.
Here on the AH forum, a microcosm of world events, we spit and spat to define left and right, liberal and conservative, right and wrong, good and bad, freedom or slavery and although you may think, little changes, it does, but very slowly.
Perhaps unintended, for those of you who followed the entire Ken Burns series, ‘The War”, left an impression that one should be prepared to defend human rights at all costs and be prepared to pre-empt efforts by tyrants to annul those basic human values.
In 1933 there were 9 million people of Jewish ancestry in Europe, two thirds were exterminated, 6 million humans eliminated, at the direction of a centralized, totalitarian dictatorship. The answer to the question, could that have been prevented?, is inconsequential; what is of consequence is if we are will willing, as a people, to prevent it from happening again.
Democrats, the left, the modern Liberals, advocate a strong central government, that has absolute control over human affairs; that is where the danger lies. Not in those who give value to human individual rights.
~~~
I know…I go ‘off’, every once in a while…what else is new?
Amicus…
