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Thomas Jefferson,moreso than Andrew Jackson(the actual original Democrat)has historically been claimed by Democrats as the father of their party. Given the party's longstanding support of federal control and more and more government,can Democrats still claim to be Jefferson's heirs?
Jefferson was full of contradictions, and even hypocrisy, but there is no freakin way he would be at home in today's Democratic party.
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if we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
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A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
Jefferson with have the most in common with far-right tea party Republicans like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee. He would be regarded as a loon and nut job by mainstream democrats. He would be in for a lot of name-calling.
Jefferson was a francophile, rednecks who use phrases like "freedom fries" , own "France sucks" buttons, or ***** about foreign language have nothing in common with him.
Jefferson was a francophile, rednecks who use phrases like "freedom fries" , own "France sucks" buttons, or ***** about foreign language have nothing in common with him.
A leading 19th century French economist was Frederic Bastiat, a tea party hero. Now there is Dominque Strass Kahn and Esther Duflo Renowned French economist to join Obama
1800 France intelligentsia was a little different from 2013 France.
A leading 19th century French economist was Frederic Bastiat, a tea party hero. Now there is Dominque Strass Kahn and Esther Duflo Renowned French economist to join Obama
1800 France intelligentsia was a little different from 2013 France.
Fail.
I never mentioned the tea party, just rednecks who hate France and foreign languages, and automatically the tea party was the first thing that popped in your mind.
I never mentioned the tea party, just rednecks who hate France and foreign languages, and automatically the tea party was the first thing that popped in your mind.
LOL
And you never responded to any of the Jefferson quotes either. Why? Because what Jefferson was saying 200 years ago is exactly what the tea party is saying today, and you have implicitly exposed that you think the tea party is composed of a bunch of boobs, rubes, and rednecks. LOL.
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