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Thursday, May 30, 2019

1642 GOT WRONG BY STONE AND HISTORIANS WHO FOLLOW HIM

Whether they are British or American. The interpretation of 1642 enabled the interpretation of 1688, and thence of 1776.


"Friday, March 21, 2014

FROM DK'S CURRENT POST

"....Politically, I would argue, the Anglo-American world began traveling down a certain very inspiring path in 1688 or so.  Three hundred years is a very long time in the history of any civilization. We still have,. of course, our democratic freedoms and institutions but they are a shadow of what they once were.  Our ability to act on behalf of the common good is much reduced.  Here, surely, is a threat to our civilization at least as serious as global warming, but one that we are only beginning to understand." DK

See Clark, Our Shadowed Present, Ch 6, p. 214.


"Wednesday, May 29, 2019



THE WHIGGISM OF BAILYN GREENE

Each explained..the causes of 1776 as external, provoked by a British affront to an already homogeneous exceptionalist America. Clark, Ch 6, fn 76."

...The British Whig-Liberal scenario has been fundamentally rewritten.... Clark

Of course, the American conservative resurgence, starting with the Jewish inspired neocon movement itself, has always been in Krugman's famous phrase, flatly wrong, about everything really, much as all economists have always been. 

I generally don't even bother to confute their nonsense. 

To paraphrase Samuel Beckett, Molloy, re American neoconservatism, supply side, Chicago School, trickle down, entrepreneurial, offshoring market globalism, etc., rather like having your prick in your rectum.

But, if you have to be flatly wrong, why not be wrong in the best of Whig-Liberal company, Bailyn and Greene?   Boomerbuster

This post is dedicated to Prince Charles, who will not and need not read it.

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