"What Plantation Is He Living On?"
What Plantation Is He Living On?
By Michael Tomasky at Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/plantation-living-094500398--politics.html
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Well the reason that the slaves were eventually freed was the Constitution, it was like the conscience of the American people. Unfortunately, there were some court decisions like Dred Scott and others that defined some people as property, but the Constitution kept calling us back to all men are created equal and we have inalienable rights in the minds of God. But a lot of the move to free the slaves came from the people, it did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith, that this was wrong. People like Wilberforce who persisted for years because of his faith and because of his love for people. So no liberal is going to win a debate that big government freed the slaves.
Please, I beg of you, dont do DeMint the honor of thinking him merely stupid. Hes probably that, in some way. Certainly those sentences add up to a mountain of stupid, a Himalayan range of it. Yet at the same time, a statement this insane cant be propelled merely by stupidity. A denial of reality this whole, this pure, requires, I think, some thought, some premeditation. Dwell with me on this for the moment.
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Todays radical conservatives like DeMint want to destroy government. This means in the first instance discrediting everything government does in the present. That, were all plenty familiar with. Its a lot of what we fight about all the time.
But the project also includes historyproving that nothing good that ever happened in history was done by the government. Oh, they might grant you a war here or there, these wingers. Theyre OK with war (when we win themwhen weve lost them, that was of course the liberals fault). But nothing else.
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