re: #262 ggt

Thomas Jefferson’s nice little agrarian Republic certainly has changed —

I’m amazed at how many people don’t seem to understand that.

I forget exactly where I read it, some early 20th book of political philosophy. Modern liberals want to use Hamiltonian means to achieve Jeffersonian ends, while modern conservatives (read: teabaggers; sane ones like DF and steve are exempt) want to use Jeffersonian means to achieve Hamiltonian ends.