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2013-11-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-25 06:51|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Got that old 'Berlin 32' deja vu feeling (minus some pounds)?

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-25 08:08|| 2013-11-25 08:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

John Adams, Letter, April 15, 1814
US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826)

Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-25 08:44|| 2013-11-25 08:44|| Front Page Top

#3 The culture does seem to have a "Lord of the "Flies" or "A Clockwork Orange" air about it these days. The children are in charge with no guidance from adults.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-11-25 09:37|| 2013-11-25 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I remember learning that the Romans had four really bad emporers in a row and then Marcus Aerelious came along and almost saved things, but one great Emporer wasn't enough to reverse the decline.

I feel like that now. Reagan gave us an extra decade or two but we need another with such clarity of vision.

Posted by rjschwarz 2013-11-25 14:17|| 2013-11-25 14:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Reagan gave us an extra decade or two but we need another with such clarity of vision.

Don't put your trust in princes.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-11-25 15:53|| 2013-11-25 15:53|| Front Page Top

#6 or priests....

Posted by Shipman 2013-11-25 17:48|| 2013-11-25 17:48|| Front Page Top

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