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The Myth of an Apolitical Military: A
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Posted By: Moritz55, 1/9/2024 7:49:50 PM

Over a century ago the Progressive leadership of the Democrats seceded philosophically from the Founding Principles of the American experiment.[i] Rejecting the principles of natural law and unalienable individual rights, they adopted the statist relativism of Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism and that of his philosophical heirs. They embraced the State as the arbiter of a changeable ‘common good’ and government by the State as preeminent over individuals, regulating personal liberty bestowed by government so long as it supports the state-defined ‘common good.’ Founded upon Woodrow Wilson’s paradigm of a “living constitution” with law making by judicial fiat or Executive Order and day-to-day governance by an unelected, unaccountable, administrative state

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Italiano 1/9/2024 9:07:55 PM (No. 1632979)
FTA: "Americans have a sense that things have gone wrong, but their perception is fragmentary, focused on one tactical issue or another." Is that a fact? The authors must not spend much time on this Site. The Pentagon needs a wake-up call. Unfortunately, it will likely be the Chicoms who supply it.
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