"Idealism counts - but it counts with a sword"


	"Idealism counts - but it counts with a sword"

graphictruth

5-10-2008 10:26 PM

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civil war, ideology, dogma, ethics, values

graphictruth says:

Everything said here is just as correct when speaking of the US Right.

Pit the two against one another and you have the perfect conditions for a civil war, for many of the same reasons that led Jefferson to predict the First.

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