Originally Posted by
superheavyrhun
This country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority....and so it remains". I mainly know it as the quote is in a Manic Street Preachers song though...educated on rock n roll!
Check out the quote from Henry Berry, House of Delegates in 1832 on government protecting property.
I quote
"Sir, I am sick with this clamor in this debate about this property, this wealth. The right of property in slaves is entirely the creature of the positive law. All our rules of property is under control of the legislature."
I interpret that as:
1.The majority to keep property away from is the people-the minority were owners of property, while the majority aka common owned nothing. End result non property owners weren't even allowed to vote...what principles....
2. The principle(s) in which this nation was founded were addressed as the Articles of Confederation. Property owners to free masons redefined said principals via Constitution. End result: privatization of money/banking to taxation via amendment. Men like Patrick Henry who said give me liberty or give me death, was so against the ratification, he stressed the Bill of Rights to ensure said principals would be inclusive, not exclusive.
Even when you look back at the sixties, and the Summer of Love, there were large numbers of people against war and supporting left leaning parties, even into Communism and Socialism
True but...think this over...Evangelicals from Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Buchanan, Pat Roberts, Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, The Dobsons...Christians seemed okay with war, denial of voting rights to blacks, segregation against all minorities. So the liberals, hippies, didn't all turn socialism out of philosophical views. Socialists to Marxists, communists were addressing such issues that conservatives and Christians were ignoring....
, but when those people grew older, certainly in terms of those who I know who have moved closer to the center than they were back then, I do think that the population shifts right as it ages.
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