[Peace-discuss] Constitutionalists alarmed that 42% of Americans are socialist, and believe in right to education

[C. G. Estabrook]

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:

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]

On 12/17/10 8:56 AM, David Green wrote:
> 
http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/News/PressRoom/BillofRightsInstitute_BillofRightsDayPollResults_FINAL.pdf
>
>  "42 percent of American adults incorrectly chose one of America’s
>  Founding documents as the source of Karl Marx’s exposition of
>  Communism, ʺfrom each according to his ability, to each according to
>  his needs.ʺ Of these incorrect answers, the most commonly chosen was
>  the Bill of Rights."
>
>  "55 percent of American adults did not recognize that “education” is
>  not a First Amendment right."

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