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Slavery Isn’t Uncommon in Human History, Freedom Is-What our ignorance of history threatens to do to us.
Frontpagemagazine ^ | October 31, 2023 | Mark Lewis

Posted on 10/31/2023 7:46:11 AM PDT by SJackson

The greatest battle we face in America today is the attempt by Leftists to overthrow and overturn the principles that abolished slavery and led humanity on the path to freedom. The Left’s unceasing attacks on our Founding Fathers undermine the values upon which America was established. And suppose the Democratic Party Leftists succeed in destroying our Founders in the minds of the American people. In that case, there will be no reason not to return to governmental oppression and, in effect, slavery.

Slavery is not uncommon in human history; freedom is. And, as in almost every human endeavor, our ignorance of history is going to destroy us.

As I have pointed out numerous times before, a crucial, cardinal error of modern-day Leftism is to judge all previous history by their (ever-changing) 2023 standards. THEY condemn “X, Y, and Z”, so it must be wrong for all people, especially if those guilty are white males. This is horribly unjust, but deliberately so. 1776 is not 2023, and the men who founded America could only look back at history from when they lived. They saw—rightly—government tyranny as the greatest enemy of human freedom, and they created a system designed to curtail that tyranny and enable people to be free in harmony with the rights their Creator had “endowed” them with—“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” And it was these principles—especially the second one, “liberty”—which, very soon in historical terms, led to the nearly world-wide abolition of slavery.

Slavery has existed for thousands of years all over the world. Within almost 100 years of the Declaration of Independence, economic slavery was virtually extinct. There are, of course, still pockets of sex slavery and child trafficking in the world today; men will always do evil. But, along with the wage-earning system of capitalism produced by the Industrial Revolution, the values launched by America’s Founders led to the eradication of the slavery so much of mankind had endured for all human history. And one might argue effectively that without the “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” ideals, the Industrial Revolution and capitalism might have adopted slavery, too.

Let’s hope the principle of “life” will soon abolish the Leftist barbarians’ practice of killing unborn children.

Folks, this is what makes modern-day Leftism, the Democratic Party in America, so frightening. They preach against “slavery” while the citizens in their cities cower in fear of their lives, in effect enslaved by the mongrels the Left has turned loose and refuses to restrain. They condemn the Founding Fathers as “slave-owners,” yet deny that it was the principles these very men built our country upon that eradicated the slavery Leftists (claim to) hate so much.

They fully intend to destroy America’s Founding Fathers in the eyes of our people because the Left does NOT believe in human freedom; the Left believes in slavery—not the agricultural-based economic slavery of the past, but governmental slavery, slavery where THEY are the “masters” and you are the “serfs”, and where you had better obey or you will suffer the consequences. Just ask the people of Stalin’s USSR or Mao’s China.

America’s great Founding Fathers constructed a system where the people tell the government what to do, not the government telling the people what to do. There has never been a country in human history based on that ideal. And the Left absolutely hates it. If you don’t believe it, go live in China like I did for ten years. And that is slavery—not economic ownership, but government oppression. Which is worse: being owned and told what you can and cannot do by a land owner or being owned and told what you can and cannot do by a government tyrant? We want neither, but who, ultimately, has more power? Government oppression is slavery by a different name, and our Founders knew it.

Patrick Henry, 1775, on the oppression of the British government: “Is life so dear, and peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and SLAVERY? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me LIBERTY or give me death.”

The aim of the Leftist Democratic Party is to return to pre-1776. They don’t want you to be free; they want to control your life; they want to tell you what they will allow you to do; they want to create the human utopia that exists only in their wicked, perverted, debased minds.

And the only way that utopia can be created is if they have total power and can enslave you by government decree. What the Democratic Party stands for today is a complete and total refutation of what America was built upon a return to government “lords” with the “serfs” and “slaves” doing as they are commanded. It’s slavery, pure and simple, under a different name—government tyranny.

I wanted to stay. The school I worked for wanted me to stay. I had students from all over the city who wanted me to stay, and I had letters and documents to prove it. But one government bureaucrat decided I had to go. Guess what happened? China, 2015. The same in 2019. I wanted to stay, but one government bureaucrat wanted me to stay. Guess who won the argument? Under a system of freedom, I would probably still be at that job I lost in 2015. I lost because some petty government tyrant arbitrarily exercised his power to rob me of my liberty and kick me out of the country. Is that what you want for America?

If it is, vote for the Democratic Party’s candidates. I LIVED IT!

Slavery isn’t uncommon in human history; freedom is. And, folks, we are about to lose it. The barbarians are overrunning the country. The jungle is taking over again. Thank you, Democratic Party.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: freedom; liberty; slavery

1 posted on 10/31/2023 7:46:11 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Now thT we have millions of these Biden pilgrims it might be a good idea to reestablish slavery


2 posted on 10/31/2023 7:50:06 AM PDT by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: SJackson

Bkmk


3 posted on 10/31/2023 7:52:18 AM PDT by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: SJackson

Nice to know somebody else out there is sounding off on the precious value of freedom which is hardly won and easily lost.

The next step is realizing the ONLY legal bulwark of protection of our God-given freedom is the U.S. Constitution which is the Supreme Law of the Land and MUST be reinstated as such. Otherwise losing our freedom is not a matter of “if” but “when”.


4 posted on 10/31/2023 7:52:52 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SJackson
enslaved by the mongrels the Left has turned loose

Using the term "mongrels" to describe humans significantly diminishes the argument.

5 posted on 10/31/2023 7:58:23 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: SJackson

Historically, poverty was the norm for most of society too. Seems fewer folks will be able to remain “middle class”.


6 posted on 10/31/2023 8:00:33 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: SJackson

More White Europeans were enslaved shipped to the Middle East slave markets than Black Africans were shipped to Slave Markets in the US.


7 posted on 10/31/2023 8:00:43 AM PDT by MMusson
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To: Wdempsey

What we need is another Great Awakening.


8 posted on 10/31/2023 8:15:31 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SJackson

When the word ‘slavery’ disappears from our languages, we will all be slaves.................


9 posted on 10/31/2023 8:16:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SJackson

Certain levels and kinds of taxation are tantamount to slavery.
Some would likely say any taxation is EQUAL to slavery.
It would be difficult to see much difference.


10 posted on 10/31/2023 8:24:25 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: SJackson

btt


11 posted on 10/31/2023 9:34:53 AM PDT by GailA (GMOs have a new name 'BIOENGINEERED' read labels. Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: SJackson

One thing not mentioned is that the Industrial Revolution made slavery obsolete.


12 posted on 10/31/2023 10:26:36 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Tell It Right

We’ve had the Great Awakening.

That’s why Deep State has to steal our elections and end our republic.


13 posted on 10/31/2023 10:30:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SJackson

They want their own version of modern day slavery cause Repbulicans took away the Democrats old version during our Civil War.


14 posted on 10/31/2023 10:43:24 AM PDT by consult
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To: Retain Mike
 
 
Correct - in a pre-industrial world, that's how %@#* got done.
 
 

15 posted on 10/31/2023 12:19:20 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: MMusson

Even more Black Africans were shipped to the Middle East slave markets. And many of those born men, arrived as neuter trannies. Their conversation was fully paid for, but then they got what they paid for.


16 posted on 10/31/2023 3:04:57 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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