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(3,979 posts) Thu Jan 29, 2015, 04:37 PM Jan 2015

Thom Hartmann: Can a New Thomas Jefferson Save Our Democracy?

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Thom Hartmann: Can a New Thomas Jefferson Save Our Democracy? (Original Post) thomhartmann Jan 2015 OP

He seems to have forgotten gladium et scutum Jan 2015 #1

How about the Koch brothers owning 99% of us? MrMickeysMom Jan 2015 #2

gladium et scutum

(806 posts)

1. He seems to have forgotten

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 07:46 PM

Jan 2015

that Thomas Jefferson owned 700 slaves over his lifetime. He freed only 10 of them. Five when he was alive and another five in his will after his death. Hardly a model of progressive thinking.

MrMickeysMom

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2. How about the Koch brothers owning 99% of us?

Reply to gladium et scutum (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:42 AM

Jan 2015

Hmmm?

Post Jefferson "he seem to have forgotten" is a laughable statement to make about Hartmann. He's not forgotten. Read some of his books.

Jefferson's ideology, from the beginning of this country have become the message of how a democracy survives, which was set forth by everything written into the Constitution, not his 700 slaves, which I'm pretty sure he was aware of.

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