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Typical Democrat President post New Deal – LBJ This is the fourth in a series of posts. The first three can be found here: Were All Men Really Created Equal Equality vs. Inequality America: A Republic or a Third World Democracy? Note: You can refer to the Legend section for definitions of the...

In a way yes, but there are several important qualifications: too many other empires were merely built with the help of the sword, without much increase in knowledge. Only two empires were built on reason / knowledge, therefore their death would be tragic; these two emerged out of Republics...

This is the third in a series of posts. The first two can be found here: Were All Men Really Created Equal Equality vs. Inequality For an expanded version of this essay, refer to this page on Michael Spencer’s blog. For the abbreviations used in the blog you can refer the Legend. The FFs...

Thanks to those who responded constructively, glad that the discussion took an intelligent turn. The big drawback of democracy known right since classical Greek civilization (i.e. even prior to 400 BC) is that soon it develops a vote-block of doles-parasites, which today the Democrats have...

This post is a continuation of the forum discussion Were All Men Really Created Equal. The entire essay is available at: Equality vs. Inequality and an excerpt is provided below. For the abbreviations used in the blog you can refer the Legend. There are a few concepts of political philosophy...

idiom: I wish you had read the blog before calling the reference to the British Raj as spam. People all over the world have a lot of misunderstandings about this topic - and I think it is useful to consider the perspective of an Indian who has identified himself as persecuted due to his lower...

I recently received an email introducing a blog titled “Is Democracy the Nemesis Also of the Americans” at https://americanemesis.wordpress.com. From my reading of the website so far I have found it to contain excellent analysis about the nature of democracy and how it is leading to America’s...