By reelecting Obama, the remnants of the USA rejected freedom in favor of Big Unions and even bigger government. But at least unions and a hypertrophied federal government have made things better for us in the past, by improving the lot of the working man and spending us out of the Great Depression, right? Wrong:



As George Santayana said,

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

It is hard to remember the past accurately when we are methodically lied to about it by people who want to relive it. Obamunism is a deliberate reenactment of the Great Depression, which was the Golden Age for the statist bureaucrats of the Democrat Party.

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Quote: Eglman wrote in post #1

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By reelecting Obama, the remnants of the USA rejected freedom in favor of Big Unions and even bigger government. But at least unions and a hypertrophied federal government have made things better for us in the past, by improving the lot of the working man and spending us out of the Great Depression, right? Wrong:



As George Santayana said,

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

It is hard to remember the past accurately when we are methodically lied to about it by people who want to relive it. Obamunism is a deliberate reenactment of the Great Depression, which was the Golden Age for the statist bureaucrats of the Democrat Party.

http://moonbattery.com/?p=23199

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Even factoring in the phenomenal amount of fraud, the fact that Obama could get a significant number of votes, or even be nominated by a major party, demonstrates the success of Cultural Marxism / Political correctness in infiltrating the education system and corrupting our immigration policy.

Two interesting authors on education are:

John Taylor Gatto who has written on How public education cripples our kids, and why
Gatto, a teacher in New York retired in disgust and wrote:
An Underground History of American Education
http://mhkeehn.tripod.com/ughoae.pdf

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

Charlotte Iserbyt, Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education
The Following book is about changes gradually brought into the American public education system to eliminate the influences of a child's parents (religion, morals, national patriotism), and mold the child into a member of the New World Order, global governance of the future:
<b>The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America</b>
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf

http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/index.html

Shermer does pretty well with unions and the "Great" Depression, until he gets to Christianity. He says the Founding Fathers were not "believing Christians", and then goes on to say that they weren't Christian like modern day evangelists, and that evangelists try to back-engineer history to fit their beliefs. Well, a lot of us aren't evangelists, whatever that means, but we certainly consider ourselves Christian. And, the writings of the FFs are replete with references to God and Christ.

With regard to the beliefs of the FFs, he repeats one of my pet peeves - that we are a "democracy". The FFs certainly didn't think so.

Then he talks about the "noble savage myth", and points out how violent they were - "way more than the Europeans", according to him. Then finishes that discussion off with "they were like we are".

Maybe he wasn't fully prepared for the interview, but his thinking is quite sloppy.

Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #4

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He says the Founding Fathers were not "believing Christians", and then goes on to say that they weren't Christian like modern day evangelists, and that evangelists try to back-engineer history to fit their beliefs. Well, a lot of us aren't evangelists, whatever that means, but we certainly consider ourselves Christian. And, the writings of the FFs are replete with references to God and Christ.

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Yes, "evangelicals". My autocorrect went for "evangelists", and I went along. That'll teach me!