Stephen Harding wrote in message ...
Vince Brannigan wrote:

Stephen Harding wrote:
Brian Sharrock wrote:


Under this paradigm of human political/economic/social action, no one does
anything without clear beneficial economic gain. Only the "socialist man"
is able to rise above this selfishness because the people own the means of
production, and workers can no longer be exploited. The bad things capitalism
does (and capitalist governments) is thus no longer possible.

The fact is the America of 1770 had probably the largest percentage of middle
class population of any place on earth, doesn't lend itself well to risky
propositions like treason against the most powerful country on earth. An
extremely high percentage of Americans were property owners.

But, that fact is what started The American Revolution
and is what keeps it going. Since, there is an even higher percentage
of middle class in American today than there was in 1770.

And the powers that be are *still* New York British, French,
and German morons. Just like it was in 1770.

And it's also why we to keep telling the French that their
greeny anti-jet missles are obviously of no use when
faced with a well-tuned black-smoking 757.