Posted on 07/30/2020 7:43:20 PM PDT by Wiz-Nerd
GENERAL. The United States was founded on the idea that the people are sovereign. This philosophy is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence; which the Constitution’s Bill of Rights are supposed to protect.
In his July 4, 1926 speech, President Calvin Coolidge was aware of the dangers inherent in the Wilsonian ideas on progressive political evolution— “About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary.”281
From the lofty perch where all men are created equal, are endowed with inalienable rights and are only governed by the consent of the governed, Coolidge understood that Wilson’s statist notions of “progress” could only result from the negation of the principles ensconced in the Declaration. Foreign and domestic opposition to America—from states, entities and individuals—have undertaken long-term strategic efforts to fundamentally change America through cultural and institutional means aimed at negating the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. This estimate of the situation will focus on the Neo-Marxist “Left” as the primary
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