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Hortensis

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17. Hey, buck up? The kind of anxious, hostile conservatives who react to change by looking for

Reply to nikto (Reply #16)

Sun Jul 26, 2015, 08:07 PM

Jul 2015

targets to strike out at are not America's special sickness. Those people are always with us, in all societies at all periods of time.

"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'" William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Tut, tut," the dragon tapped back. "Unreasoned anguish is nonetheless real." Robert Heinlein

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