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Given what Americans actually believe (as opposed to what the
corporate media and the political class tell us they believe), those
Americans who are saying that it's time to take the country back are
right:<br>
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Jefferson, e.g, in his maturity thought that people "by their
constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who
fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them
into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify
themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and
consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most
wise depositary of the public interests. In every country these two
parties exist, and in every one where they are free to think, speak,
and write, they will declare themselves. Call them, therefore,
Liberals and Serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories,
Republicans and Federalists, Aristocrats and Democrats, or by
whatever name you please, they are the same parties still and pursue
the same object. The last one of Aristocrats and Democrats is the
true one expressing the essence of all." [Thomas Jefferson to Henry
Lee, 1824]<br>
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On 12/17/10 8:56 AM, David Green wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/News/PressRoom/BillofRightsInstitute_BillofRightsDayPollResults_FINAL.pdf">http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/News/PressRoom/BillofRightsInstitute_BillofRightsDayPollResults_FINAL.pdf</a><br>
><br>
> "42 percent of American adults incorrectly chose one of
America’s<br>
> Founding documents as the source of Karl Marx’s exposition of<br>
> Communism, ʺfrom each according to his ability, to each
according to<br>
> his needs.ʺ Of these incorrect answers, the most commonly
chosen was<br>
> the Bill of Rights."<br>
> <br>
> "55 percent of American adults did not recognize that
“education” is<br>
> not a First Amendment right."<br>
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