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All passive aggressive control put in place by weak and sick people.

Poisoning the strong to manipulate. Constant drip. Creep.

Lots of people want to be led or at least protected. Not everyone is a leader even though many claim to be. The “title” of leader many times is an illusion and unearned and no one takes serious. Look at the Congress lol.

Weakening the West and feeding very real adversaries that aren’t in the West, and who don’t care about wokeness besides to use it as a weapon against us a heap of confidence. When will those adversaries decide they like American land? They won’t be soft.

I hope you talk more Poulos. You have something that needs to be heard. I’m sure you have the skill to speak to different types of Americans on this. I’m sure it won’t be easy.

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Different populace, different priorities. Americans were settlers, not immigrants. They were aggressive in their acquisition of what they meant by the 'American Dream ': property. Without property, there is no freedom. This land is mine is the guarantee of freedom. Nowhere on earth was there property for the taking except in America. They came to stay, not, like the Spanish, to acquire wealth to gain status in the mother country. They fought and subdued the Indians and expelled them from their territories. The Indians were not interested in property or ownership. American settling of the land was the only phenomenon in world history in which the military came after the settlers claimed the land. Americans were farmers and/or builders; civilization came later. Emily Post was a nineteenth-century necessity once the railroads stitched the country together. Americans didn't know how to behave around other humans. This is the American difference. This is why America is "exceptional." I once reported on a local farmer in the bleakest part of Texas who had bagged a bobcat and nailed its skin to his gate. It was a local color feature for the San Antonio Light. He told me that when the local draft board came for his sons during WWII, he held them off with a shotgun. As a born and bred New Yorker I felt as if I discovered America for the first time. This is the bedrock of the American civilization and why the Constitution is without jingoists flourishes but merely a blueprint limiting as best it can the power of government by atomizing it and maximizing individual freedom and agency. The question is: is that America lost and gone? .

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Good article. My only quibble is that “the act of making soft” needs no neologism like “softenization” when “mollification” means the same thing.🤔wwtd (What would Toqueville do?)

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one liberal intellectuals above all must confront...? At this juncture Hell Freezing Over looks to be hitting the Silver Screen first.

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