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ORIGINAL: Sanity


No, our main problem is that we're devolving into the very ways of socialism and tyranny of all-powerful central government that many who fled to our nation of immigrants worked so hard to escape from. Look at the next thread over, if someone dares to vary from the socialist norm there isn't any part of his private life, or no lie that won't be dredged up in order to try to vilify him.

We are becoming a nation of slaves, but the injustice is being relabeled as "justice" now.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

Sanity, isn't it possible we have always been a nation of slaves: indentured servants from Europe, black slaves from the African bush, indigenous natives where we found them, post-reconstruction prisoners on chain gangs hired out by the state or county, chinese men recruited to build the railroads in the West, Irish, Jew and Italian wage slaves in the most horrendus garment factories either side of the turn of the nineteen century, and now cheap labor imported from Mexico and Latin America as "illegals." Not to mention the long history of supression of women. Somehow we overlook these obscenities when we patriotically proclaim ourselves a nation of free man and woman. I think our history has been one of the "selectively" free, well connected men. Perhaps you do not see it that way.

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ORIGINAL: SL4V3M4YB3

It's not the truth because what you've done is like telling the story of little red riding hood without mentioning the fact the wolf ate her at the end. Most nations have dark periods within their history and most people can't admit to them. You seem to be going back a little too far in history to find the last example of injustice.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Everything is relative Vincent, there are very few absolutes in this world.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

Sanity, isn't it possible we have always been a nation of slaves: indentured servants from Europe, black slaves from the African bush, indigenous natives where we found them, post-reconstruction prisoners on chain gangs hired out by the state or county, chinese men recruited to build the railroads in the West, Irish, Jew and Italian wage slaves in the most horrendus garment factories either side of the turn of the nineteen century, and now cheap labor imported from Mexico and Latin America as "illegals." Not to mention the long history of supression of women. Somehow we overlook these obscenities when we patriotically proclaim ourselves a nation of free man and woman. I think our history has been one of the "selectively" free, well connected men. Perhaps you do not see it that way.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Everything is relative Vincent, there are very few absolutes in this world.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

Sanity, isn't it possible we have always been a nation of slaves: indentured servants from Europe, black slaves from the African bush, indigenous natives where we found them, post-reconstruction prisoners on chain gangs hired out by the state or county, chinese men recruited to build the railroads in the West, Irish, Jew and Italian wage slaves in the most horrendus garment factories either side of the turn of the nineteen century, and now cheap labor imported from Mexico and Latin America as "illegals." Not to mention the long history of supression of women. Somehow we overlook these obscenities when we patriotically proclaim ourselves a nation of free man and woman. I think our history has been one of the "selectively" free, well connected men. Perhaps you do not see it that way.