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Crackpot Lawyers With Itchy Ears

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The Survivalist Interpretation of the Founding Period

The south were deriving great benefit and profit from slavery and the slave trade. If they had fallen into disunion over slavery or any other issue they would have fallen into civil wars that possibly could have ended the country so I bring that up because we need to be able to get to a place where that doesn't create cognitive dissonance force. We will continue our conversation with Eli Merritt tomorrow as we dive deeper into the question of America's flaws  and if the past few years have escalated those flaws to the point where demagoguery really does pose a huge danger to our country That'll be Eli Merritty tomorrow.

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