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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
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That's a very stange view of history. Everything was great black when only wealthy white males could vote (slave owners often) -- but then everything got screwed up by special interest....did it ever occur to you that slave holding was a special interest?
Again how do you explain unions getting the 8 hour work week if democracy only ever serves the interest of the powerful?
I g2g but let me just say...when you disagree with me. Your disagreeing with mainstream academic thought. Don't fool yourself into thinking I'm just making my own shit up.
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First, mainstream academic thought in useless disciplines like history or economics primarily serves to justify the ruling class. In other words, it's complete shit. Secondly, I think you should go back and chat with your marxist professor, because everything you say is just confused.
Unions get concessions because they are a special interest group and democracy serves the special interests. Like any special interest group, they don't really serve the interests of the majority, though. The California teachers and prison guards unions for example are in the process of bankrupting the state, the auto unions have nearly wrecked Detroit, etc.
Slaveholders are of course a special interest group . . . what is your point? Remember that the Emancipation Proclamation was not issued until years into the Civil War when Lincoln needed a morale boost. And while I am not a huge fan of the institution of slavery, was its abolition really worth 650,000 killed? The Civil War is still the bloodiest war in American history.
Obviously not everything was perfect in 1775. They didn't have penicillin, automobiles, or the Internet. What I am saying is that life in the United States improved because of small government and individual liberty, not unions or democracy, and now that we no longer have the former things are rapidly going down hill. I believe even women are less happy now than they were in 1970, despite the massive 'achievements' of feminism.