Originally posted by BingB: THE FBI HAS NEVER CLAIMED THE CRIME RATE HAS DROPPED JUST BECAUSE SOME AGENCIES STOPPED REPORTING. IT DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT.
The FBI never claims the crime rate goes up. It does not work like that !
Thanks cliffw, he is a true student of history, an accomplished author of historical nonfiction and a great thinker.
More people should pay attention to his works, because, as we all know....
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
I'm an avid reader, and listener, of everything that VDH produces. My personal library includes many of his books.
VDH's works on the late stages of WW2 and into the Cold War are especially instructive in understanding the genesis of our present sociopolitical mess.
Shelby Foote is also one of my favorite historians on the American Civil War and my library includes at least 20 of his works. There is a tremendous amount to be learned about the antebellum and post war fetid Demorat party from his books.
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Originally posted by randye: I'm an avid reader, and listener, of everything that VDH produces. My personal library includes many of his books.
VDH's works on the late stages of WW2 and into the Cold War are especially instructive in understanding the genesis of our present sociopolitical mess.
Shelby Foote is also one of my favorite historians on the American Civil War and my library includes at least 20 of his works. There is a tremendous amount to be learned about the antebellum and post war fetid Demorat party from his books.
gee did you ever learn the southern democratic party was as conservative THEN as you are NOW ? ie full nut-con
Originally posted by randye: Shelby Foote is also one of my favorite historians on the American Civil War and my library includes at least 20 of his works. There is a tremendous amount to be learned about the antebellum and post war fetid Demorat party from his books.
Shelby Foote preserved a lot of historical data, but his understanding of history is kind of weak. He actually claimed that the "people in the south thought that slavery would die out on its own" and that "state's rights was the solution". But that makes zero historical sense when you see that The Constitution of the Confederacy made it illegal to outlaw slavery. That is the exact OPPOSIT of "States' Rights". If the Confederacy was about "states' rights" the states would have the right to make their wn decision on slavery. But they didn't. The whole "states' rights" argument is silly when you look at the Confederacy's Constitution.
Originally posted by randye: I guess that we shall have to breathlessly await your books on the Civil War to rectify all that others are "weak" on, as you claim.
It is impossible to claim that every person who wrote book is correct because people write books with conflicting positions.
I did not post my opinion. I posted one of Foote's and showed why it made no sense. What is written in the Constitution of the Confederacy is not an "opinion" it is fact. It is impossible to claim that the Confederacy was going to give the states the rights to decide on slavery when their Constitution said it was illegal to ever ban slavery. The States if the Confederacy had NO "RIGHTS" when it came to slavery.
Are you part of the problem,nor are you part of the solution.
I know where I have stood my entire adult life.
Do you?
Thanks for the link.
You know, considering Dr. Hansen's deep knowledge on the genesis of geopolitical turmoil, world conflicts. regime changes and all out wars, his current rather "bleak" outlook in his articles should give everyone pause. Unfortunately there is a certain ideological portion of the population that will refuse to even read Dr. Hansen's viewpoints and, of course, are the same people complicit in determining the destructive path we seem destined to follow.
As someone once said about where we seem to be headed: "You can vote your way in but you have to shoot your way out."
I've always wanted to ask Dr. Hansen, based on his historical knowledge, at what point does he think that "the guns will come out."
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"The law of unintended consequences" that may be coming could very well be swift and horrifying beyond imagination.
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