Virginians Butcher History

     Right wing types praise Locke, and never seem to understand Montesquieu.  What [Katherine] says is that "virtue" is required for a Republic.  Does Montesquieu say this?  No.  Not only that, she doesn't say anything about Montesquieu, but refers to the "teachers of Montesquieu," as if he was some sort of scribe of previous greatness.

     Montesquieu does say virtue is required for a Democratic-Republic, sometimes called today "direct democracy."  But that's not what we have, [Katherine], inadvertent right wing stooge.

     Then Barbara Clark Smith lies about virtue.  Lies about what the Founders thought virtue meant.  She is telling the defenseless (no TV stations of their own) people that .

     Smith would have served her listeners better if she hadn't skipped the role of credit in pre-17th century Continental European wars.  She makes it sound like Britain invented it. 

     Smith is killing me on the definition of patriot.  She asserts it was about debt financing of a military state.  Read the Declaration of Independence and you'll see nothing about this. 

     Strangely, although Smith doesn't seem to understand virtue, she does have a good grasp of the trade boycotts and the power of them, the state of public manufactures in the Colonies and other promising things.

     There was a nice part about the rich no longer attending the theatres, and not using funerals for an opportunity to show off clothes.

     McGarvie, however, the other speaker, is a sick fascist.