09-29-2016, 01:32 AM
(09-29-2016, 12:32 AM)taramarie Wrote:(09-29-2016, 12:23 AM)Galen Wrote:(09-29-2016, 12:19 AM)taramarie Wrote: It is usually that way though. Those that do not think things are "fine" become the new minorities. I have a question. I have seen you use the word "carpetbaggers" several times. That is not a term used in New Zealand so this kiwi wants to know what it means.
It means exactly what it says, a bag made out of carpet. Think of it as the nineteenth century equivalent of modern luggage.
Ok I still did not understand it as we have none of those terms here. I think Americans speak another language at times. I had to look it up. NOW i understand it.
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- a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
- British
a person who becomes a member of a mutually owned building society or insurance company in order to gain financially in the event of the organization demutualizing.
It was a term coined in the nineteenth century and only used now in connection with Reconstruction after the War Between the States. I really wouldn't expect you to know it unless you had an interest in US history. These people were, not entirely without reason, considered to be scum of the earth.
Imagine how most Americans would react to the language used in Blackadder. Its the same problem going the other way. Its one of the reasons most Americans find British humor to be a difficult concept.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises