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2021-12-29 -Great Cultural Revolution

VDH - Elites Are Destroying America with Globalism, Leftism, and Tribalism

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-29 01:19|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 It would appear he's reading the Burg.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-29 01:21|| 2021-12-29 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Citizenship is fundamental to our civilization, yes. Right to life liberty and property; rule of law; responsibility to ourselves, our children, our elders, our neighbors to preserve the greatness of our civilization, with pride in things greater than us and a humble disdain for our own weak efforts as individuals.

Ironically, the source of our modern understanding of citizenship is the civitas, the city, and it's those large and deep blue US cities that are nurturing all the forces of hatred of both our civilization and modern conceptions of citizenship.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-29 03:40|| 2021-12-29 03:40|| Front Page Top

#3
He continued, "[Citizenship is] the idea that you would have people who live in a confined space and they would govern themselves. They would elect their officials They would audit them. They would set their budgets, their expenditures. They would decide when to go to war, when to have peace.

.. via their representatives. Untill the political party leaders hijack the representatives to represent them instead.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-29 04:45|| 2021-12-29 04:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Middleman's a great thing when you need less than a warehouse amount of some hard good. The rest of the time, not so much.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-29 04:47|| 2021-12-29 04:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Ref #3: .... via their representatives. Untill the political party leaders hijack the representatives to represent them instead.

Excellent point BB. I have observed however, most go willingly.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-29 07:23|| 2021-12-29 07:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Politics is what happens when a group assembles & works out who has to take the orders, who gets to give the orders, and who has to pay for the entire shebang. If the group fails to form a consensus they break up into smaller groups &/or go war with each other. The notion of citizenship was a political arrangement worked out long ago.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-12-29 15:40|| 2021-12-29 15:40|| Front Page Top

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