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We are doomed to repeat history

To the Editor:

We repeat our mistakes because we never seem to learn the lessons of history and, in our case, we have an arrogant group of liberal elites who are attempting to do away with not only our way of life but establish a quasi-dictatorship run by a liberal aristocracy. President Obama bypassing Congress by using executive orders is similar to methods used by past dictatorships. The people in Congress we elected to represent us no longer have a voice.

We’ve seen it in dozens of countries from Nazi Germany to Venezuela.

The elite liberal aristocracy only thinks they know what’s best for us, they look down on the working class and prefer them to stay in their place by making them dependent on a big government. In fact, liberals have little understanding of how things work in life, many never having held a real job.

Several black leaders have commented recently that the aristocratic liberal class has done almost as much damage to the black people as did slavery. 

The result is a liberal aristocratic hierarchy with everyone subject to their views. But all liberal thinking goes against our knowledge of science, and I suspect at least some of them  are titillated by lowering our sexual moral codes to the level of Hollywood.

What brought the lack of historical continuity to my attention was a short clip I watched on one of the late night shows. Someone was interviewing people on the street and asked how they felt about the death of FDR last Monday? All replied that FDR was a great loss and sorry to hear he died. They were then asked which was FDR’s most important accomplishment, the Monroe Doctrine or the Louisiana Purchase?  

Dear reader, I hope you know the answers to these questions and if you don’t, we’re all in a whole heap of trouble because we will repeat the same mistakes over and over.

Bob Wilson 

Franklin

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