I preach 'think for yourself' all the time, and it just came back and smacked me. It's not clear whether members knew they were voting against the 4th Amendment at the time of the vote. It's never been clear whether a mob knows anything or not. Basically it's like this. There is no rift in the Republican party when it comes to taking away rights, freedoms, and entitlements of those who don't make as much money as they do or who want to consider more than one point of view.
History contains many lessons.
Those who don't learn the leasons of history are doomed to repeat them. I don't know who said that. Those who teach that history has but one lesson are doomed to live out that delusion. I said that. The Politics of Meaning are Mere Semantics I am writing in response to the piece on the politics of meaning.