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Originally Posted by bizaro86
It's in the DNA of the country. Thomas Jefferson had this to say
And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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I believe Mao had the same philosophy and the Red Guards and the Cultural Revolution was the result. This has been shown to be a crazy idea in practise.