Posted on 02/24/2016 3:20:29 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
We can ascend into freedom. But we must engage in local politics. Get involved and hold on--fiercely
In the 1600s David Hitchborn migrated to America and spent his life in servitude. Within four generations, the family became free property holders, business owners and respected burghers. By 1734, David’s great-great grandson, patriot Paul Revere was born into the influential Boston family.
This is the classic American saga of the rise from serfdom to freedom. Yet today, American freedom is in reverse.
The choices bred from our forebears’ sacrifices are swirling down a cultural cesspit of renewed servitude.
From Wilson’s progressivism and FDR’s New Deal to Barack Obama’s sustainability, a parade of demagogues has turned the idea of American freedom into whispered conversations in a campus ‘free speech zone’.
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