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James Pogue - Nature, Strife, and American Destiny

From the New World

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Those Principles Are Fungable When You Apply Them to Someone You Don't Like That Much

"If your principles are fungable whenever they have to be applied to somebody you don't like that much, then they're not really principles at all," he says. "Nobody in this country truly, truly seems to exhibit a desire to apply principles in a measured ... principled manner" He thinks people want more to see their enemies hurt than the society put back together.

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