Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "What a Former Democrat Learned at a Trump Rally - Karlyn Borysenko | Real Talk with Zuby #78" video.

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  3. Postmodernists see only the flaws in the past. Focus on how exploitative the Spartans were; whereas, historians USED to notice the democratic features of Spartan society and Greek society in general, and rightly saw the seeds of our own representative republic. We've never been blind to the flaws. In fact, seeing the flaws of the past informed the framers of the U.S. Constitution, who wanted to AVOID those mistakes. Civilization has slowly muddled its way to a BETTER present, but never a PERFECT present. We may yet get to something close to perfect, but the one thing intelligent people are certain of is that those promising to use power to MAKE utopia, if only we would give THEM the power, are dangerous and misguided, at best, malevolent at worst. Postmodernists want to dwell on the institution of slavery, and IGNORE the principles and people guided by those principles that eventually did AWAY with it! Reparations? Really? My ancestors got stepped on, plenty, too! And they embraced the opportunity to make their lives better. So did blacks, up until Lyndon B. Johnson came along and the narrative switched from "Give me an even break!" to "Give me something because you OWE me, because I'm black and you're white!" Before Johnson, blacks were closing the gap between blacks and whites. After Johnson, they started losing ground as a group. Of course that begs the question of the rationality of even seeing race as a group status. There are SO many mixed-race couples that it doesn't even matter.
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