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Richard Girard is a polymath and autodidact whose greatest desire in life is to be his generations' Thomas Paine. He is an FDR Democrat, which probably puts him with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders in the current political spectrum. His answer to all of those who decry Democratic Socialism is that it is a system invented by one of our Founding Fathers--Thomas Paine--and was the inspiration for two of our greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, who the Democrats of today would do well if they would follow in their footsteps. Or to quote Harry Truman, "Out of the great progress of this country, out of our great advances in achieving a better life for all, out of our rise to world leadership, the Republican leaders have learned nothing. Confronted by the great record of this country, and the tremendous promise of its future, all they do is croak, 'socialism.'
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The Romans have nothing on us when it comes to political assassinations, except they could never cover-up from the public at large that the oligarchs were responsible. Our oligarchs have that down cold.
I will eventually go back and add a whole slew of articles that I have written in the past about selfishness and its destructive effect on humanity and human society in every form.
This is going to be my all out, heavily researched attack against the Conservative movement; both now and in the past. My first articles are on Capitalist Libertarianism, because so many people are clinging to it, like survivors of the Titanic to wreckage, as a way to maintain their freedom, and get ahead economically. They must be disabused of their delusion.
