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[Two Americas]

I think the slave owners were seriously worried about becoming slaves, or thought they were. Takes on to know one, and people project their own thinking onto others. Having read extensively from their diaries and letters, I think that they did imagine and believe that what they were doing to others would be done to them if they relaxed their grip.

What I am saying us that the fear people raise now - that if we overthrow the economic tyranny under which we will live we will merely replace it with another - is no different.

You are making the perennial argument in defense of the ruling class that has been made throughout history - that tyranny lives in the hearts of all men, and that there is no sense overthrowing the tyranny under which we live, because that will merely lead to a new tyranny. That was the argument against overthrowing the feudal landlords, the monarchies. People who side with the tyrants always want to see tyranny as "human nature" and inevitable because that makes it impossible to overthrow.

You are looking at slavery in the rear view mirror, with the benefit of hindsight. You know how that one turned out, and you know which side to take.