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A Jacksonian: UNITED STATES IS A REVOLUTIONARY NATION
America seems to have forgotten what it means to *have* liberty and freedom. And has forgotten the dear cost of that fight... the Universality of the Rights of Man as Individuals was not something that was conceived of as a mere 'talking point' and to be discarded whenever a fight got a bit too hard.
The Left, in particular, has forgotten that the United States is a Revolutionary Nation all the way back to its founding. The Right has also forgotten this in the long decades in which an established Nation could wander from its path and yet still be corrected back to it by its People.
Today the People are wandering from the path, the political realm is all over the landscape and those that espouse the basic, and to this day still, Revolutionary outlook of the Founding are now finding resistance to it.
That does not lead to Freedom or Liberty for *anyone* in the long run.
It is a path to Despotism.
A path to Tyranny.
Because bias and Nationalism are perfectly acceptable... if you support the Universal Right of the Individual to come together and form societies and Nations. The Founders worried that this Revolutionary Path would be side-tracked or lose, in the end. Right they were to worry about.
When Bejamin Franklin was asked in 1787 what the New Government would be, his response was clear and succinct: "A Republic, madam, if you can keep it."
Best we remember Mr. Franklin editor of the Declaration and Constitution. He realized just how abnormal the United States was and would continue to be.And the Republic is *still* ours.If we can keep it.
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5 comments:
We must keep it! At all costs.
Some elected officials are waving white flags -- they call it "talking" to people who are killing Americans, and they call it forbiding the President to use force against people who are killing Americans.
It is how nations are lost... Perhaps Abe Lincoln said it this way: "If destruction be our lot, it come from within," or something close to that...
Stand strong America... hold on tightly to your freedom for the world is full of those who wish to see you drop your freedom and run.
I am glad you post it ...:-)
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Serendip - My thanks! I truly write spur-of-the-moment on most everything, but the deep abiding themes all drive those thoughts... somewhere in my no longer fully visible thought structure.
I do have strange ideas... writing that passage to you caused me to think a bit more and solidify my thoughts, yet again. Restating the same thing over and over is tiresome, which is why hyperlinks are so very handy! People ask the same question and I can hand out the exact same answer, every time. But looking at how the US was formed and why, leads me to thoughts contrary to the ways of modern politics... I was, perhaps, born in the wrong century but only this one has allowed me to survive the ills of my body so I am stuck here.
Trying my best to see a better world and also knowing the horror necessary to get to it. Never more true were these words spoken:
"You must pay the price to secure the blessing." - Andrew Jackson
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