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Ron Paul and the John Birch Society

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Bubbaman4/28/2009 8:24:42 pm PDT

re: #230 Zimriel

I’m sorry, but that’s balderdash. America in the 1780s took the measure of the Marxists of their day - the Jacobins in France - and drew up a Constitution expressly designed to stop anything like Marxism from taking hold here. As for the libertarians, granted this Constitution wasn’t as libertarian as the Articles of Confederation, but the framers still attempted to give a latitude for human freedom as wide as possible given the constraints of (for instance) the South.

Please provide some valid references as this is a rather audacious perspective that runs counter to classical writings and teachings. To think that the framers were primarily concerned with the infiltration of collectivism is, a bit twisted.