anecdotal huh? you really shouldn't use words you don't know the meaning of.
here's some more "anecdotal" quotes for ya:
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
"What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles."
"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history."
The fact of the matter is you don't know what a fact is. the US didn't become a socialist country until it passed an income tax in 1861 to fund the war (ironic since the war was about federal expansion...
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