Child labor laws -- you'd have thought those would have been sacrosanct, ever since the 19th century. You'd have thought. You'd have been wrong.
Broadly speaking, two forces, two parties at work in the USA, the party of Cain and the party of Abel... the party of "Am I my brother's keeper?" (No. My brother's killer.) And that of men and wo…
Child labor laws -- you'd have thought those would have been sacrosanct, ever since the 19th century. You'd have thought. You'd have been wrong.
Broadly speaking, two forces, two parties at work in the USA, the party of Cain and the party of Abel... the party of "Am I my brother's keeper?" (No. My brother's killer.) And that of men and women well aware of how we depend on one another, for we're all in this together.
But when we come to Sarah Huckabee Sanders enabling the employment of kids in meat packing plants, that's the kind of thing you'd expect of a cruel foreign invader... not of your own people. Plainly another hangover from slave owning.
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What passes for "rugged individualism" so divides and atomizes human communities that we end up with mindless mass conformism. A strong sense of individual responsibility -- thinking for oneself, questioning hand-me-down notions, answering for oneself, that is one thing; that "-ism" and all the assorted ideological mindrot that comes with it, is quite another. A diseased, even criminal, mentality, as opposed to a healthy one.
Child labor laws -- you'd have thought those would have been sacrosanct, ever since the 19th century. You'd have thought. You'd have been wrong.
Broadly speaking, two forces, two parties at work in the USA, the party of Cain and the party of Abel... the party of "Am I my brother's keeper?" (No. My brother's killer.) And that of men and women well aware of how we depend on one another, for we're all in this together.
But when we come to Sarah Huckabee Sanders enabling the employment of kids in meat packing plants, that's the kind of thing you'd expect of a cruel foreign invader... not of your own people. Plainly another hangover from slave owning.
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What passes for "rugged individualism" so divides and atomizes human communities that we end up with mindless mass conformism. A strong sense of individual responsibility -- thinking for oneself, questioning hand-me-down notions, answering for oneself, that is one thing; that "-ism" and all the assorted ideological mindrot that comes with it, is quite another. A diseased, even criminal, mentality, as opposed to a healthy one.
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