Exactly 50 years ago today, Senator Mike Gravel read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record in order to make them public. As he read, his sadness at the fact that U.S. government lies had killed so many innocent people led him to start openly weeping. He died 2 days ago aged 91.

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Back when being a Democrat meant Classical Liberalism and not progressive-marxist lunatic.

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Classical Liberalisms in early Americana assumption was that Men strive for self determinationism as a result of each persons individualism and personal liberty. This requires a society to have a level of homogeny of objective and values, what Aristotle called "philia". When the west lost control of assimilated immigration, Classical Liberalism became obsolete and irrelevant as tyrants and despots divided people with age old ethnic rivalries to eliminate the peoples sovereignty.

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Everyone should read that small bit by Aristotle.

TLDR: Even Greeks new thousands of years ago that Democracy, or any non tyrannical rule is impossible in a non-homogeneous society.

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Classical liberalism is an evil ideology, nearly as evil as progressivism. It seeks to maximize personal freedom. The cost of personal freedom is order and community.

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I disagree. Personal freedom and liberty are inaliable rights and are the greatest drivers of innovation and human evolutionary progress, maximizing them is a noble cause. Conversely, all conflict distills down to competition for scarce resources so "order" and "community" should always be viewed as temporary and subjective to those needs.

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There is a balance to be had. The reason disorderly conduct, loitering and making excessive noise are illegal in nearly all places is because total personal freedom just means being an asshole. Your freedom to bang a drum at 3am ends when it keeps all of your neighbors awake. And it should. Classical liberalism undermines society by allowing the asshole with a drum to be an asshole.

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