Posted on 10/19/2010 3:33:12 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
This week we have two prominent examples proving that liberals are ignoramuses about the Constitution and U.S. history. One incident wholly misunderstood by the left was uttered by the redoubtable Sarah Palin and the other by Christine O'Donnell.
First up Sarah.
In Nevada Sarah Palin kicked off a new tour to spur conservatives and Republicans to the polls just ahead of the midterm elections. During one of her speeches Palin said that conservatives shouldn't "party like it's 1773" just yet. We need to keep our shoulder to the wheel and get to the polls first, she warned.
The idiots of the left went wild with Palin's 1773 date. It proved that Palin was an idiot, they said. Why, the only famous date in our early history is 1776, they chortled. Palin is obviously too stupid to know we became a nation in 1776 they guffawed.
A string of Twitter posts and TV reports streamed from these unschooled leftists attacking Palin for her obvious stupidity.
Of course, these leftist idiots proved themselves illiterate enough not to know that Palin wasn't referencing the 1776 birth of the nation. Palin was at a Tea Party rally and was referencing the Boston Tea Party… you know, the one that occurred in 1773? Yeah, remember that one...
Of course its a tactic preteens use, but its effective in our 'Jersey Shore' culture.
Not a shock, how the heck would liberals know anything about US history when they hate everything about America
Yeah, well.. Twit posts mean nothing.
Kind of like blogs.
It's just that they know so much that isn't so.
My message to other Dad’s out there. If you do nothing else, educate your kids about American History and also take them to Church on Sunday. And I mean You take them, not your wife, so you can stay at home to watch the game.
Two books that have helped me as a dad are:
How to Raise an American - 1776 fun and easy tools, tips & activities to help them love this country
And being you were probably educated by the public school system like me, and may need help with American History, get “a Patriots History of the United States.”
Oh and a third book, “The Real George Washington”. You will learn more about him and the Revolution than 10 years of college level American history. And its not heavy reading.
What Twits Libs are. Party like it’s 1773 and overturn Obama taxes like the British tea tax. Drink coffee and cocoa smuggled in from Holland! ;-)
Liberals know what NYU, UVA, Ithaca, Cornell, Brown and Boston University taught them.
People who “tweet” on Twitter are twits.
Can one imagine how they would attempt to denigrate and destroy the men who penned the following words?
"I do not think it for the interest of the General Government itself, and still less of the Union at large, that the State governments should be so little respected as they have been. However, I dare say that in time all these as well as their central government, like the planets revolving round their common sun, acting and acted upon according to their respective weights and distances, will produce that beautiful equilibrium on which our Constitution is founded, and which I believe it will exhibit to the world in a degree of perfection, unexampled but in the planetary system itself. The enlightened statesman, therefore, will endeavor to preserve the weight and influence of every part, as too much given any member of it would destroy the general equilibrium." --Thomas Jefferson to Peregrine Fitzhugh, 1798. ME 10:3
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278
"If Caesar had been as virtuous as he was daring and sagacious, what could he, even in the plenitude of his usurped power, have done to lead his fellow citizens into good government?... If their people indeed had been, like ourselves, enlightened, peaceable, and really free, the answer would be obvious. 'Restore independence to all your foreign conquests, relieve Italy from the government of the rabble of Rome, consult it as a nation entitled to self-government, and do its will.' But steeped in corruption, vice and venality, as the whole nation was,... what could even Cicero, Cato, Brutus have done, had it been referred to them to establish a good government for their country?... No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and their people were so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control. Their reformation then was to be taken up ab incunabulis. Their minds were to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vice by the dread of punishments proportioned, indeed, but irremissible; in all cases, to follow truth as the only safe guide, and to eschew error, which bewilders us in one false consequence after another in endless succession. These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and good government. But this would have been an operation of a generation or two at least, within which period would have succeeded many Neros and Commoduses, who would have quashed the whole process. I confess, then, I can neither see what Cicero, Cato and Brutus, united and uncontrolled could have devised to lead their people into good government, nor how this enigma can be solved." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1819. ME 15:233
"An enlightened people, and an energetic public opinion... will control and enchain the aristocratic spirit of the government." --Thomas Jefferson to Chevalier de Ouis, 1814. ME 14:130
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820.
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789.
"Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, the people, if well informed, may be relied on to set them to rights." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, 1789.
From James Madison:
"Although all men are born free, and all nations might be so, yet too true it is, that slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant – they have been cheated; asleep – they have been surprised; divided – the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson?... The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it."
"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
Do these words not sound more like Palin and the Tea Partiers than the political elitists in both Parties who dominate American politics today?
Betcha' that Palin understands the meaning of every one of these declarations; whereas the followers of Mao and Marx will disavow them, deny them, and evade their wisdom.
It’s not that they’re stupid.
It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
It does little good to tell people that separation of church and state is not in the constitution. They know that it is. It was taught to them in school and it’s re-enforced constantly by the media.
If we are going to try to replace conventional wisdom with truth, we’ll have to start a lot earlier than two weeks before an election.
thanks Mobile Vulgus, additional:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2610594/posts
Exactly right each of you. I mean, every post so far has be=en 100% spot on!! Thank God for Freepers!
If the knew ANYTHING they would’nt be liberals.
Ah, but they feeeeeel things. To a lib THAT is good enough.
Thanks for the tip. Got it ordered
When Sarah mentioned 1773 she was laying a trap for the liberal pundits that they obligingly walked right into.
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