Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, & the Birth of Right and Left — The Imaginative Conservative (Reblog)

Do you wish to understand the birth of right and left? Examine the debate between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine occasioned by the French Revolution. 1,623 more words

Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, & the Birth of Right and Left — The Imaginative Conservative
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Haibun: Eye to Eye

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I wish we could agree.
Our difference of opinion
enflames the things unsaid.
So we skirt around the issue
whilst I remained perplexed:
Whatever happened to your
rebellious youth?

And why am I the radical?

Brainwashed opinion
Open mindedness thrown out
Worn out paradigm

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