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Are Americans too political?

[i]“Most Americans do not live in ideological bubbles, because they take little interest in politics at all. According to polling by the Pew Research Center, only about 13 percent of Americans say they talk about politics daily, making me and most people reading this column a minority smaller (much smaller) than gun owners.”[/i] [b]~ Michael Gerson[/b], in[i] “How can our political bubbles be popped?”[/i] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2pbMi0F [/c]

There is a myth, close to universally believed (although self-evidently false) that there is some kind of natural force or will of the people that brings inevitable “progressive” change as humanity marches ever forward toward the light, despite the attempts of reactionaries from the right to stop it.

This is an artificial construction which comes from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution – where the idea of ideologies was born . All of these ideologies have actually been instigated by a small minority, including the French Revolution as [b]Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn[/b] explains in his essay [i]“Operation Parricide: De Sade, Robespierre and the French Revolution” [/i] [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/29G4Bnj[/c]

All of these modern secular ideologies are just Christian heresies instigated and pushed by an elite: [c=#BF0000]http://bit.ly/2bc8H7p [/c]
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Not true. Close, but not true. What the French Revolution and Enlightenment did was seek to explain and examine the natural progression of mankind, not invent a construct for it.

Man progresses. individually and collectively. He attains spiritual growth, his body evolves and adapts, he learns and build on that knowledge, he discovers, he refines, he explores and expands in qualities like mercy, collectivism and understanding. It's a matter of science, but it also obvious.