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  1. “That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts of the ideological spectrum, is not surprising. What is surprising, however, is how often the opinions of those on the left are accompanied by hostility and even hatred.” ― Thomas Sowell
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  2. Communism fails because it works off the premise put forth by Rousseau that people don't have a fallen nature and therefore can be perfected. Starting with the French Revolution, a lot of people have died trying to prove Rousseau right and Locke wrong. I'm with the guy who said if he had a gun with two bullets and Rousseau, Lenin, and Stalin were standing in front of him he would shoot Rousseau twice. The Soviet Union failed for a lot of reasons, not the least being they lacked the resources and capital to make communism work. They went pretty much straight from feudalism into socialism, ignoring the capitalist phase Marx called for in his highly flawed historical dialectic. That's the highbrow argument, the "it just wasn't tried correctly" crowd likes to point to. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who lived the nightmare was more on point when he talked about the entire system being based on people's willingness to go along with a lie. "It is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand: It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty. And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!" ― Live not by Lies. Or as he more succinctly put it: “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” Lies, like their father, only have power if we grant it to them. But lies, like their father, can do a great deal of damage when they dictate how we manage our affairs. What is a woman takes on much greater importance when viewed through that lens. But hey, don't worry. This is America, land of the free, home of the brave. They could never get away with that sort of nonsense on this side of the pond. "There is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.' Alas, all the evil of the Twentieth Century is possible everywhere on Earth:" ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Who's right; the academic who comes up with a bunch of theories in a classroom and the unelected bureaucrat who gets paid to put them into practice or the guy who witnessed first-hand what happens when we abandon God and trust the experts. You decide. But remember what John Adams said: "Facts, are stubborn things."
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  3. I can listen to Thomas Sowell all day long. I'm glad he pointed out that racial differences didn't drive everything as far as colonization and conquest were concerned. That is the kind of nonsense being spread in today's universities and media platforms. People have been conquering and relocating other people since they got a taste for power. Cultural lines have formed and hardened over time but that desire, the desire to dominate others, is alive and strong as well and people will always seek power in the world as it is currently set up.
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  4. That's the beauty of being a liberal. Your ideas don't have to work, they just have to make someone feel good. To each according to his feelings from each according to his ability to pay for those good feelings.
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  5. A basic rule of thumb when dealing with the left. If you want to know what they are up to, listen to what they accuse you of doing.
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  6. This is where Washington becomes so critical and why there is him, Lincoln, and a bunch of guys afterward who held the job, pick the order. Washington knew everything he did was setting the precedent and he was in many ways the true father of the Constitution. He wanted it to endure so he did his best to avoid getting involved too deeply in the spat between Jefferson and Hamilton (though Jeffersonian historians may disagree) and he stepped down after two terms, discarding the notion that the states had removed one king and replaced him with another. Washington knew there needed to be a smooth, voluntary transfer of power in order for the Constitution to survive. Like his hero Cincinnatus, he would finally retire to his farm. King George the Third called him the greatest man in history when he stepped aside after the Revolution. Old mad King George was right. There are no more Washington's. Maybe that's why countless revolutions fail time and time again. Thanks for the video. Good stuff.
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