It was the first time in history that a country was based upon something other than place or ethnicity. The Founding Fathers built upon the thoughts and actions resulting from the Reformation and Enlightenment, deliberately crafting a government legitimized by a popular mandate.
No longer did someone rule by Divine Right. Religion and the Divine were not possessed by a Chosen aristocracy and the coercive power of government was not used to impose it upon the populace. Political influence and economic success could be attained by other means than birth. For the first time in history, one could use hard work, creativity and discipline to provide a need -- and in the process make things that were previously attainable to only the few available to nearly everyone.
One could attain economic success to mutual benefit in an industrializing society, rather than at the expense of others in agrarian medievalism.
It is no accident that the Industrial Revolution coincided with the American Revolution.
Prior to the founding of our Republic, there was doubt as to whether limited representative government would not degenerate into mob rule. The founding of the United States of America showed the world that freedom is the optimal human condition. It was demonstrated that people could govern themselves and the result would be justice and prosperity that penetrated to a far broader proportion of society than previously deemed possible. Seeing the technological innovation that was nurtured under freedom, much of the world strove to emulate this example.
Certainly this course has been imperfect. We can second-guess the choices of people from the 18th Century as they essentially created the field of political science from scratch. Their prejudices and experience certainly colored their actions -- and their posterity certainly suffered the consequences. But the Founding Fathers’ genius provided a structure under which we could reform our society beyond what they could have imagined -- and still remain intact through great upheaval and tumult.
Hence, we enjoy the longest continuously running democracy the world has ever seen.
But, from the beginning, there were always forces who did not trust the people and sought to disenfranchise them. To this day, they try to seduce the people into giving up their freedoms for the false security of dependence upon those who are smarter and know better. They try to demoralize the public into thinking that they cannot run their lives w/o guidance and provision from their Betters.
The threat to freedom is as great now as it’s ever been. Our way of life and our empowerment to see to our own personal safety and economic security are under attack on all fronts -- by those who smile and tell us that they will take care of us if we only put our lives in their hands.
There is an elite class who dominates the media, academia, the legal profession, politics and the entertainment industry who have been patiently conniving to make us ignorant, impoverished and disenfranchised. Then they turn their pinched faces to blame freedom for the crime, poverty and social dissolution resulting from their mischief as they offer to save us from ourselves.
We are not being attacked by force of arms, but by deception -- and it has had its deleterious effect over the past couple of generations. The middle class is the main target for destruction; people who can take care of themselves have no need for benign tyrants.
Has freedom had its chance? Is mankind doomed to suffer under tyranny? I don’t think so. But we need to wake up, recognize what is being done to destroy our way of life and fight back.
We owe that much to those who sacrificed so much to bring us the greatest nation the world has ever seen. We owe that much to our children who must live in the world we leave behind.
And the bible warnings did not cease to be true either.
Yes, a big problem today is lies and people believing them.
This problem isn’t even coming from people, in the final instance. This is coming from the demons. Ephesians 6 among other passages in the bible warns of them and of how to achieve victory in their face.
If the American people can honor the largest sacrifice of all, that on the cross of Jesus on Calvary, they will soon be in a more advantageous position. Jesus came to show us that God loves us and the problem with hate is on our side, not God’s side. The devil comes only to shower us with hate.
The industrial revolution happened in the USA during a time of steep protective import tariffs. Conversely the de-industrialization ongoing in the USA is happening with no protective tariffs in place. In case anyone cares about the truth.
Americans don’t have the luxury to “stay home” this November. In order to outvote the illegal aliens and foreigners, they are going to have to get off their asses and get out and vote for America.
" John Adams, on July 2, 1776, after a day in which the Continental Congress had adopted the Declaration of Independence, wrote to wife, Abigail:"The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
"You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these states. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means. And that posterity will triumph in that day’s transaction, even although we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not…
"It may be the will of Heaven that America will suffer calamities still more wasting, and distress yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have this good effect at least. It will inspire us with many virtues which we have not, and correct many errors, follies and vices which threaten to disturb, dishonor and destroy us. The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in States as well as individuals...But I must submit all my hopes and fears to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the faith may be, I firmly believe."
- John Adams