09-16-2016, 10:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2016, 10:36 AM by Anthony '58.)
(09-16-2016, 10:15 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: 1861, actually; but who's counting
Actually, 1961 too. Kennedy calls us to begin; then invades the Bay of Pigs. Lessons learned.
But there was no perihelion/opposition of Mars and the Sun in 1961. There was one in 1956, and the next one was not until 1971; then in 1988, and again in 2003.
Back to the original post though: Trump's support for this maternity leave thing doesn't shock me one bit. The "New Right" - which includes such burgeoning movements as Five Star in Italy and Alternatives For Germany in that country - has absolutely no problem with government doing such things as feeding the hungry, healing the sick (whether they're rich or not), and sheltering the homeless - just so long as those hungry, sick and homeless are natural-born citizens of their own country.
Because they are Malthusian nationalists - not Social Darwinists.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892