The Colonists believe they had no representation in their course. All the power was kept by Parliament, and the Crown. All through history you will see pivot points that almost always hinge on the lack of representation, or the hoarding of power, as we see with Obama and his Czar mentality. Revolution will happen again, but will it be too late...
I've felt that way for some time. The ideological and cultural gulf is too wide now for us to ever be a united people. I often feel that this has been done to us willfully and systematically.
our “fellow Americans” are no longer our “fellow Americans.”
I would say our fellow Americans, might be closer to our mortal enemy.
Exactly!
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security....
You gotta love the uplifting title. There are always two options — FIGHT for something you believe in deeply or GIVE UP. There is no promise in the first, no promise of victory. But there is the promise of giving yourself to something you believe in deeply. The second is a lot safer.
I’d like to see the military rise up against the government and I’d be more then willing to support them like I do now. We took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against enemies both foreign and domestic.
The enemy is now domestic and it is the government. The executive and legislative branches of government are in direct violation of the Constitution.
The Late, Great USA - July 4, 1776 - November 4, 2008
No question that Roosevelt did a lot of damage, and before him, Woodrow Wilson.
But I would trace this back to 1968 and the Cultural Revolution. Vietnam was the focal point, but that was just an excuse. The war ended but the cultural revolution continued.
One key point was that you could get a draft deferral by going to graduate school and by going into the teaching profession. As a result, the anti-war protestors went into the colleges and the public schools in droves.
The reason we have so many un-Americans—maybe a third of the country—is that children are brainwashed by leftists from kindergarten through graduate school. As we know, conservatives have more kids than liberals—maybe twice as many—but then the liberals get to educate most of them.
Part of that was no doubt deliberate—”seizing the levers of power.” But part of it was an unfortunate side effect of the draft laws. All the leftists went into education and they took over. What was previously maybe 2/3 leftist became maybe 98% leftist, and ever since they have weeded out anyone who doesn’t think like they do. A few conservatives get through the cracks, but not many.
Liberty is not dead until that last man who yearns to be free is.
http://www.constitution.org/col/jrb/00420_jrb_fedsoc.htm
“A Whiter Shade of Pale”
Speech of Janice Rogers Brown
April 20, 2000, Thursday
I will close with a story I like a lot. It’s a true story. It happened on June 10, 1990. A British Airways jet bound for Malaga, Spain, took off from Birmingham, England. It was expected to be a routine flight. As the jet climbed through the 23,000-foot level, there was a loud bang; the cockpit windshield directly in front of the captain blew out. The sudden decompression sucked Captain Lancaster out of his seatbelt and into the hole left by the windscreen. A steward who happened to be in the cockpit managed to snag the captain’s feet as he hurtled past. Another steward rushed onto the flight deck, strapped himself into the captain’s chair and, helped by other members of the crew, clung with all his strength to the captain. The slipstream was so fierce, they were unable to drag the pilot back into the plane. His clothing was ripped from his body. With Lancaster plastered against the nose of the jet, the co-pilot donned an oxygen mask and flew the plane to Southampton —approximately 15 minutes away — and landed safely. The captain had a fractured elbow, wrist and thumb; a mild case of frostbite, but was otherwise unharmed.
We find ourselves, like the captain, in a situation that is hopeless but not yet desperate. The arcs of history, culture, philosophy, and science all seem to be converging on this temporal instant. Familiar arrangements are coming apart; valuable things are torn from our hands, snatched away by the decompression of our fragile ark of culture. But, it is too soon to despair. The collapse of the old system may be the crucible of a new vision. We must get a grip on what we can and hold on. Hold on with all the energy and imagination and ferocity we possess. Hold on even while we accept the darkness. We know not what miracles may happen; what heroic possibilities exist. We may be only moments away from a new dawn.
Thanks for the reference to John Adams. This was the main thesis of William Appleman Williams’ writings on the American Revolution. It’s good to see where his idea came from.
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American Revolution
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Something is very wrong...and perhaps a huge turn around has been made regarding our foundations...and I am with those who believe that the foundations of this nation, our Constitution and our Bill of Rights, are worth fighting for...no matter where we are.
I am middle-aged and grew up in the fities and sixties,having been born just after WW2 ended.
I grew up in NYC,which was a bustling place where lots of things were made and the place had a solidity that was reassuring.
I will never forget the maps we got in school that showed where everything was manufactured.The USA of my early years was a muscular giant faced off against the forces of communism,and the beacon of freedom for the world.
The sixties brought out the slime that dominates in academia and congress nowadays.The industrial base of our country was dissipated and we are now all these years later on the downward slide to the cesspool of internationalism and third world values.
This president seems to have the degradation of America’s image as his mission.The ground was well-prepared by the leftist crap professors that schooled him.He is the symptom of a decades-long decline.
I am glad I will not be alive to see the denouement of this trend.
The people who made this country great are being betrayed in their graves by a misshapen amphibian like Henry Waxman and a scumbag witch like Nancy Pelosi.I wish the very worst on them.Their souls stink like an old,rotten cheese.
I don’t buy that it is too late. The old cliche “It’s always darkest before the dawn” applies here IMO. It will get darker yet for awhile but the dawn will appear.
Why do I believe this? Because I have three sons between the ages of 18 and 25. I know their friends. One voted for McCain and is at least somewhat interested in politics. Another liked and voted for 0bama because of the “historic” and “cool” aura surrounding zer0 during the campaign (he’s an artist type.) He is now suffering severe buyer’s remorse. My other son is involved not at all in politics and forgot to vote.
So, I have raised my kids to have common sense but to respect their own freedom of choice. All three of them, as different as they are, will not stand in the long term for having their freedoms taken away and will, ultimately, stand up for their own rights. Their friends are the same way.
Combine this with the fact that most of the people are just now waking up to the debacle that is 0bama and the far left in this country and before 2012 the tide will turn.
I do not buy that zer0’s agenda is irreversible. I just don’t. If that were true then Carter’s cr@p would still be the predominant direction of the country. zer0 wouldn’t have to be overcoming the Reagan Revolution (with the unfortunate help of Clinton and GWB) right now.
So, there is ample reason to worry, plenty of incentive to stand up and be counted but not a single reason to panic. I trust the vast majority of the American people, as slow to action as they are, to prevail and that the 15-20% of hard leftists who have sway right now will be defeated by their own failing agenda. Theirs is a world view that is not sustainable and most people - enough to take them out of power - will ultimately vote for freedom over subservience.
Honestly I appreciate why some may have the despair seen in this open letter. I think I already know all the arguments in favor of this despair. But even if I agree that many of them are true I still don’t buy the final conclusion that it is too late.
I have faith in America and the Constitution even though they are both under severe attack. They will prevail IMO.
But not without a serious fight.
As long as people will vote for politicians based on what money they are promised from the national treasury, then we’re on the fast track to ruin.
We as taxpayers get to fund the corruption. That is our only role and value as far as the gang of thugs in Washington is concerned.
As I see it, we are now in a state of anarchy, for the government has trashed the Constitution, the linchpin of our rule of law. Pretty soon it'll be "every man for himself."
Unless the people can restore the public order, one way or another....