{"id":94210,"date":"2016-04-26T08:18:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94210"},"modified":"2016-04-26T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:18:19","slug":"is-everyone-the-same-at-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94210","title":{"rendered":"Is Everyone The Same At Heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/thomas-franks-listen-liberal-or-what-ever-happened-to-the-party-of-the-people\/\">Luke Lea writes<\/a>:  I, like most people in the West, just assumed that people everywhere were more or less the same until the invasion of Iraq. How could anyone anywhere who didn\u2019t belong to the ruling class not be in favor of freedom and democracy? Hbd*chick\u2019s seminal post on Whatever Happened to European Tribes provides the most convincing answer to that question, at least in my view. It fundamentally changed the way I understand the world, which is really saying something for an old man like me. <A HREF=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/q18ekk\">Here\u2019s the link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Lea writes: I, like most people in the West, just assumed that people everywhere were more or less the same until the invasion of Iraq. 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