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Warpy

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22. Well, what made this country to begin with

Fri May 17, 2013, 08:27 PM

May 2013

were the WASPs who got here first and grabbed all the best land but who got sick of paying all the niggling taxes the Crown had levied on everything they did.

Fortunately for us, they were products of the Enlightenment who thought in the long term instead of the short and gave us a remarkable governmental structure that they were wise enough to crib largely from the Iroquis.

However, the structure has proven to be resilient enough that we've been here before and have managed to come out of it when our government has become sufficiently frightened by the people to act in their behalf.

Unless we scare them enough, they'll continue to ignore us.

It doesn't have to be violent. It just has to be consistently anti incumbent.

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