Thomas Paine and the Promise of America

Thom talks to Harvey Kaye, author - Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, about Glen Becks modern-day reimagining of Thomas Paines Common Sense

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[Plutonwolf]

That video series is enough to make any scholar of history projectile vomit. But since when has the far right even paid pale lip service to the truth?  Even when they do approach anything reminiscent of the truth, it is taken out of context, edited and twisted so cruelly as to make a damnable lie more honest.

[KamuiMosir]

@WBradio Yeah, too many facts. Damn hippies and their learnin'

[davide121100]

Mr. Paines rants have evidently hit a nerve somewhere with I guess what you would call unintellectual Americans. I hope the other 2428 that watched your video were not like me and found your video by accident. If this is a reflection on how many people listen to your radio show and keep up with you please prepare yourself for unemployment. Can you say"supersize that for 50 cent? sir".

[threefiveZ]

@davide121100 What an interesting proposition? Do the number of views determine the intellectual merit of the video? Do they determine the factual accuracy of them?

One other thing, Mr. Paine is dead: has been for a long time. That other guy...well, he is a fraud.

[davide121100]

Mr. Hartman needs to realize his video (this one) has a total of 2411 views and Mr. Paine is about to hit 10 million.... I will bet Mr. Hartman a thousand dollars ($1000.00) to the charty of his choice, this one never hits a million in the same length of time... Put you money where your mouth is. Talk is cheap.

[mec554]

You're right we don't want social security... we didn't want it then and we don't want it now. It doesn't exist. It's a nice jerkoff theory but FDR rammed it in our asses and look it at. It's bankrupt. What an economic illiterate.

[seahorse1945]

Loser!

[MarmaladeINFP]

@KamuiMosir Even with the Civil Rights movement, the Democratic Party only took a side after a lot of protests and violence had already happened. The Democratic Party sometimes responds to the liberal and progressive movement, but the Democratic Party never leads. However, I guess responding to change is better than fighting against it as has become the norm for the GOP. Your comparison of Obama and Jefferson is quite humorous. I can sort of see that. :)

[KamuiMosir]

@WhatCanIsay100 Oh hardly!

Communists are communists (That does NOT equate tyranny btw) SOME progressives were varying degrees of socialist, but most were just true leftist democrats. Prohibition was championed by christian progressives.

Learn the storied history of these terms you sling around like some watery Molotov cocktail dud.

[KamuiMosir]

@MarmaladeINFP Actually, its that the Democratic party never really stood for what it should have. Paine was one of the only real democrats. Jefferson was like Obama is now, and Franklin Roosevelt was still only a little more to the left.

[KamuiMosir]

@nafaidni Wait... Are you from he US?

John Adams, Gouverneur Morris, and later John Calhoun, are your conservative founders. You should shut up and feel proud that your team, the aristocratic wealthy elites of the nation have mostly won the game and own DC in whole