You WILL surrender to an all-powerful sovereign because youre too stupid and small-minded to manage your own affairs! ============== EDIT: This is definitely being taken out of context. He appears to be talking about the past, how things used to be, and how he hopes to improve the situation. But those ideals have also been tested, here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign. Often this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others and that individual identity must be defined by us versus them, or that national greatness must flow not by what people stand for, but what they are against. Full speech: washingtonpost/world/transcript-president-obama-gives-speech-addressing-europe-russia-on-march-26/2014/03/26/07ae80ae-b503-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:11:19 +0000
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