BoogyMan
05-10-2010, 07:01 PM
You know what they say about bird of a feather, right? How interesting that Obama would appoint such a person. Hmmmmm.
The quote below is from Elena Kagen's senior thesis at Princeton. In it she laments the fall of the socialist movements of the early 1900s.
Link (http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODMyM2YxNWM1MTUxMWJmNjBlNjYyNWFkN2RjMTNhYjE=)
“Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness,” she wrote in her thesis. “Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation.”
She called the story of the socialist movement’s demise “a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America ... In unity lies their only hope.”
.: Read the rest of this article :. (http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODMyM2YxNWM1MTUxMWJmNjBlNjYyNWFkN2RjMTNhYjE=)
The quote below is from Elena Kagen's senior thesis at Princeton. In it she laments the fall of the socialist movements of the early 1900s.
Link (http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODMyM2YxNWM1MTUxMWJmNjBlNjYyNWFkN2RjMTNhYjE=)
“Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness,” she wrote in her thesis. “Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation.”
She called the story of the socialist movement’s demise “a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism’s decline, still wish to change America ... In unity lies their only hope.”
.: Read the rest of this article :. (http://bench.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODMyM2YxNWM1MTUxMWJmNjBlNjYyNWFkN2RjMTNhYjE=)