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Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) by dehrmann on Sunday January 10, 2021 @01:53PM (#25718079)
How was the the revolutionary period "moral convulsion?" Political, sure, but not moral.
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Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) by marcusverus on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:04PM (#25718264)
The widespread adoption of the civil libertarian ethos (under the guise of unalienable rights, endowed by a creator) might be the greatest moral convulsion in human history.
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Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) by vulcan01 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:17PM (#25719183)
> civil libertarian ethos

People living in the colonies already had this. When Parliament started asserting more control over the colonies, they fought to restore their control over government.

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