On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:22:12PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > They've discovered the essential lesson of the extremist -- if you > > adopt an extreme position, and refuse to budge, repeated application > > of "striking a balance" moves the "centrist" issue in your direction. > > True. That's a violent way to achieve social change but it works > I guess. Not really ideal. Kinda like Civil War took care > of slavery at a huge price.
Not really. Slavery was already on the way out, and would have been almost completely gone within another generation anyway. And nobody can say that blacks were well-loved citizens north of the Mason-Dixon line... they were perfectly free to stay at the back of the bus and out of "white only" establishments for another 100 years. The Civil War was all about consolidation of power in Washington DC instead of the states. The mess we're in today is a direct result of that. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
