Posted on 11/20/2016, 5:09:45 PM by Kaslin
Coming out of the election we hear the cries that America is breaking apart, that we have never been more disunited. We aren’t breaking apart in the literal sense of course; we have stalled any calls for secession for awhile, though California is more than welcome to leave, if it insists. But the country is certainly fractured, with most of the blame for this being heaped on the so called rabble that voted for Donald Trump, those boorish, offish Middle Americans who just didn’t want to be part of the, “it takes a village” collective. Well, to all this talk about disunity, I say, Hoorah!!
The idea that we must all be “united” should send a chill down the spines of all freedom-loving Americans. In fact, “stronger together” is nothing but a euphemism for the loss of our individual liberty.
For some time now, we have had a government and culture that has tried to forcibly homogenize us. The fact is that in a nation of 320 million people, over 3,000 miles wide and 1,400 long, with massive rivers, forests, deserts, and mountain ranges that homogenization will never happen. Huntsville, Alabama will never be Seattle, Washington, which will never be Saginaw, Michigan, which will never be Cheyenne, Wyoming. And even within these great States, you can’t force a Fresno into being a San Francisco. Mightily as they have tried, we are different and proud of it.
We are still living in the shadow of a post-World War II America, a brief and rare time when America seemed united in principle and purpose. Some of that may have been a mirage, but there is no doubt that the postwar America was one with many uniting features. But that, too, is now cracking up.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If you ever see me “united” with a libtard for any reason beyond sports teams, please stage an intervention.
No office holder is capable of “uniting the country”. And if an event like 9/11 could not do it either then nothing will. It’s simply us against them and them against us.
As with so many other words and concepts, the Left has commandeered the term “unity” to actually mean “Join us so we can have ‘unity’.” (The Left will NEVER move to the Right.)
Our answer: No, “e pluribus unum” exists only under our Free Constitutional Republic, not under illegal Leftist Marxism and tyranny.
“Unity” means you won but give into our demands.
Obama: Republicans get on the back of the bus. “The election is over and we won.”
THAT is the attitude Trump should have. Bulldoze the liberals and cram it down their throats FAST.
First 100 days needs to be a complete full court press change everything.
Then KEEP PUSHING.
They never give up. Show the country what winning is and we’ll have the White House and Congress for a generation.
Article is mostly unmitigated Bovine Excrement. The author must be smoking crack.
As using ‘towns’ as identifiers of ‘disunity’, I interject:
1. Long Beach, Ca, of 1952, is no more.
2. Bangor, ME, of 1956, is no more.
3. Stamford, CT, before the fires/riots of the 60’s, is no more, and in the transition time, to 1970, is ‘way no more’.
4. Dover, DE of 1074, is no more.
5. Denver, of 1977, is no more.
6. Victor Valley, San Bernardino, Rialto, CA of 1985 is no more.
7. With the closing of Bethpage Grumman and Fairchild Aircraft, the Long Island region of 1994, is no more.
8. Portland, OR, up to 2000, was never really there to begin with.
9. New Orleans, that microcosm within the State of Louisiana, though badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, is still crawling up the berm, one-handed like the burnt Anakin Skywalker.
10. The Alexandria/Pineville area has the river running between them, and they are still shouting at each other from the respective levees.
American Unity occured on Nov. 8, 2016, to slay the Clinton Dragon, who would have interfered with EVERYBODY’S life.
Now, if we might join to get rid of this mohammedan problem infecting us, that would be nice.
Well we’ve always been divided when it comes to politics and elections. But my perception, is that we used to be more united when it comes to issues such as patriotism, importance of family, we had not normalized out of wedlock pregnancy and child rearing, etc. There used to be more unity about issues such as men working to support their families, and many more people got guidance about life from religion. Many more people used to go to church regularly. Social norms were reinforced in public schools.
Do we even have social norms anymore??
Does everyone being on his or her cell phone during dinner or at family gatherings qualify as a social norm?
Turns out our parents were right about Elvis. Or grandparents as the case may be.
Curious, ain’t it? How the whole country has flipped in sixty years.
"The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its components are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order...."
-Justice Joseph Story
Justice Story's words pay tribute to the United States Constitution and its Framers. Shortly before the 100th year of the Constitution, in his "History of the United States of America," written in 1886, historian George Bancroft said:
"The Constitution is to the American people a possession for the ages."
He went on to say:
"In America, a new people had risen up without king, or princes, or nobles....By calm meditation and friendly councils they had prepared a constitution which, in the union of freedom with strength and order, excelled every one known before; and which secured itself against violence and revolution by providing a peaceful method for every needed reform. In the happy morning of their existence as one of the powers of the world, they had chosen Justice as their guide."
And two hundred years after the adoption of this singularly-important document, praised by Justice Story in one century and Historian Bancroft in the next and said by Sir William Gladstone to be "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given moment by the brain and purpose of man," the Constitution of 1787 - with its Bill of Rights - remains, yet another century later, a bulwark for liberty, an ageless formula for the government of a free people.
In what sense can any document prepared by human hands be said to be ageless? What are the qualities or attributes which give it permanence?
America's Constitution had its roots in the nature, experience, and habits of humankind, in the experience of the American people themselves - their beliefs, customs, and traditions, and in the practical aspects of politics and government. It was based on the experience of the ages. Its provisions were designed in recognition of principles which do not change with time and circumstance, because they are inherent in human nature.
"The foundation of every government," said John Adams, "is some principle or passion in the minds of the people." The founding generation, aware of its unique place in the ongoing human struggle for liberty, were willing to risk everything for its attainment. Roger Sherman stated that as government is "instituted for those who live under it ... it ought, therefore, to be so constituted as not to be dangerous to liberty." And the American government was structured with that primary purpose in mind - the protection of the peoples liberty.
Of their historic role, in framing a government to secure liberty, the Framers believed that the degree of wisdom and foresight brought to the task at hand might well determine whether future generations would live in liberty or tyranny. As President Washington so aptly put it, "the sacred fire of liberty" might depend "on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people" That experiment, they hoped, would serve as a beacon of liberty throughout the world.
The Framers of America's Constitution were guided by the wisdom of previous generations and the lessons of history for guidance in structuring a government to secure for untold millions in the future the unalienable rights of individuals. As Jefferson wisely observed:
"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."(Underlining added for emphasis)
The Constitution, it has been said, was "not formed upon abstraction," but upon practicality. Its philosophy and principles, among others, incorporated these practical aspects:
Recognition that love of liberty is inherent in the human spirit.
Recognition of Creator-endowed, unalienable, individual rights.
Recognition that meaningful liberty is possible only in the company of order and justice. In the words of Burke: "Liberty must be limited to be possessed."
Recognition that in order for a people to be free, they must be governed by fixed laws that apply alike to the governed and the government.
Recognition that the Creator has not preferred one person or group of persons as rulers over the others and that any government, in order to be just, must be from among the great body of the people and by their consent - that the people have a right to self-government.
Recognition of human weakness and the human tendency to abuse power; therefore, of the need to divide and to separate the power granted to government; to provide a system of checks and balances; and to make government accountable to people at frequent intervals.
Recognition that laws, to be valid, must have their basis and limit in natural law - that law which, as Cicero wrote, "is the highest reason, implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite."
Recognition of the need for structuring a government of laws, not of men, based on enduring principles and suitable not only to the age in which it is formed, but amendable to different circumstances and times, without sacrificing any of the three great concepts of Order, justice, or Liberty.
Recognition that the right to ownership of property is a right so compelling as to provide a primary reason for individuals to form a government for securing that right.
Recognition of the need for protecting the individual rights of each citizen, rich or poor, majority or minority, and of not allowing the coercive power of government to be used to do collectively that which the individual could not do without committing a crime.
Recognition of necessity for incentive and reward as impetus for achievement and growth.
Recognition of the need for a "Supreme Law of the land" a written constitution which, consistent with its idea of the sovereignty of the people, would provide its own prescribed amendment process, thereby circumventing any potential unconstitutional changes by any of the branches of government without the people's consent.
The Constitution of the United States of America structured a government for what the Founders called a "virtuous people - that is, a people who would be able, as Burke put it, to "put chains on their own appetites" and, without the coercive hand of government, to live peaceably without violating the rights of others. Such a society would need no standing armies to insure internal order, for the moral beliefs, customs, and love for liberty motivating the actions of the people and their representatives in government - the "unwritten" constitution - would be in keeping with their written constitution.
George Washington, in a speech to the State Governors, shared his own sense of the deep roots and foundations of the new nation:
"The foundation of our empire was not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and superstition; but at an epocha when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.... the treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labors of philosophers, sages, and legislators, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collective wisdom may be happily applied in the establishment of our forms of government."
And Abraham Lincoln, in the mid-1800's, in celebrating the blessings of liberty, challenged Americans to transmit the "political edifice of liberty and equal rights" of their constitutional government to future generations:
"In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American people, find our account running ... We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth....We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them - They are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic...race of ancestors. Theirs was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights, 'tis ours only, to transmit these...to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know...."
Because it rests on sound philosophical foundations and is rooted in enduring principles, the United States Constitution can, indeed, properly be described as "ageless," for it provides the formula for securing the blessings of liberty, establishing justice, insuring domestic tranquillity, promoting the general welfare, and providing for the common defense of a free people who understand its philosophy and principles and who will, with dedication, see that its integrity and vigor are preserved.
Justice Joseph Story was quoted in the caption of this essay as attesting to the skill and fidelity of the architects of the Constitution, its solid foundations, the practical aspects of its features, and its wisdom and order. The closing words of his statement, however, were reserved for use here; for in his 1789 remarks, he recognized the "ageless" quality of the magnificent document, and at the same time, issued a grave warning for Americans of all centuries. He concluded his statement with these words:
"...and its defenses are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens."
Our ageless constitution can be shared with the world and passed on to generations far distant if its formula is not altered in violation of principle through the neglect of its keepers - THE PEOPLE.
Remember who the messenger is. The message of “unity” is about the liberals banding together not the conservatives who they don’t want in heir clique. The message is a production produced by George Soros using a cast of actors and stage hands. Stop listening to them. Thisis Soros’ m.o. and he has used it to destabilize other countries in the past to manipulate their economies and markets for financial gain. America is the prize he wants and he has made that clear in the past.
You are amazing.
“THAT is the attitude Trump should have. Bulldoze the liberals and cram it down their throats FAST.”
No, we should simply point out THEIR OWN LANGUAGE TO THEM. And then say, either apologize to US for your divisive & intolerant speech, or accept that turn-about is fair play.
Every Republican should do that very publically every single day.
This nation was founded to implement & defend personal liberty - the opposite of what the Left considers “unity”.
Great article. Bookmarked.
Thanks very much for the ping, c_I_c. Yes, that is a great article. Thanks for posting, Kaslin.
HOORAY Michael Finch. Thank you, sir. BUMP-TO-THE-TOP
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