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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6
I disagree.
The tipping point was when the Hamiltonian huge diversified capitalism vision for the U.S. won out over Jefferson's small agrarian vision for out country. Everything our country is today from synthetic CDOs to everything made overseas to the ultimate decline of America's moral character can be traced back to Hamilton's vision winning over Jefferson's.
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Has America ever actually had moral character? Back when those two were around, America had less than zero of it (aka - slavery was legal . . . not to mention we were busy with the wholesale massacre of the indigenous people, because we could).