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Gollleee and Shazaam, huh. LOL!

Permit me to expand a bit:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

. . . . . from A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress Assembled, July 4, 1776, Philadelphia.

“... such is become the prostitution of language that sincerity has no longer distinct terms in which to express her own truths.”

. . . . . Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, 22 January, 1783 The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ME, Vol 4, pg 205)

“If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.”

. . . . . George Washington, letter to Bushrod Washington, 10 November, 1787

When we seek purity (clarity) in our choice and use of words and terms, we demonstrate that we are impelled by a desire to seek distinct terms in which to express our own truths; a precise communication of an idea, unclouded by ambiguities. As an idea matures, it begins to form boundaries about the distilled essence of its import; the core of its being, so to speak. When in the course of the lifetime of an idea that it has come to the point of considerable maturity, yet its proponents, ostensibly in pursuit of purity, remain engaged in disputes, even among themselves, over its simplest boundaries, it may be reasonably surmised that precise communication in distinct terms has not been the point of the conversation.

What, then, is the point? Confronted with the repeated failures of their intellectual and practical systems, Socialists seem constitutionally incapable of drawing the obvious conclusions. Gaining no wisdom from their devastating experiences, it is indeed hard to say from whence, and if ever, they will find wisdom. Instead, bristling with hostility, they respond to each successive failure by launching increasingly shrill and irrational attacks against a western civilization that has now posted a “no outlet” sign at the entrance to the blind sidetrack that is Socialism. The point, then, must be obfuscation, in the form of deceit and misdirection, but to what end?

The instrument of self-correction that we have installed in Western Civilization resides in the idea of the Perfectability of Man. Having both a secular history and a religious history, we may nonetheless surmise its roots originate from our culture’s Judeo-Christian tradition. The idea does not necessarily imply the notion that Man can achieve perfection, rather that he is capable of bettering himself and his condition; that, indeed, his very nature impels him to seek an elevation of himself and his condition. It is this idea that allows Western Civilization to correct its faults and liberate its virtues, and with increasing force, as its elements come to be better articulated and more accurately applied.

Exhibiting a degree of perverseness that can only be regarded as deeply pathological, much of our Intellectual Community, which is almost uniformly Marxist, has sought to reverse this process of self-correction, using our culture’s discarded faults as weapons with which to attack and destroy its virtues. Raised and schooled in Western Culture environs, they can hardly plead ignorance as an excuse for their miscreant behavior.

The passage from the Declaration of Congress Assembled, cited above, was truly not the work of one man, or of a committee, or even of the entire general assembly. It came from the psyche of the colonial community, and its well-spring arose from centuries of the accumulated political, economic, societal and ethical thought of all of Western Civilization. Mr Jefferson and the gathered assemblage in Philadelphia simply produced a perfect essence of Natural Rights as one object of their labors. Madison confirms this in an observation made almost a half-century later:

“Nothing can be more absurd than the cavil that the Declaration contains known and not new truths. The object was to assert, not to discover truths, and to make them the basis of the Revolutionary act.”

. . . . . James Madison, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September, 1823

If there is one thing of which we may be sure, it is that Man is not perfect, and therefore we must assume that neither are his works. Yet, in the more than two-and-a-quarter centuries since Mr. Jefferson gave us that eloquent and stirring passage, no one has seen fit to suggest an acceptable alteration. The American People have seized upon it, and so made it a part of their psyche that even more than a century of intense socialist indoctrination has failed to dislodge it. It has become the keystone of Western Civilization.

Not being able to inflict so much as a modicum of damage upon the keystone, our Intellectuals have elected, instead, to dismantle all of Western Civilization, brick by brick, and so bury its keystone in the rubble, that it will never again see the light of day. In that socialist theories are borne out of, and reside within, the normal confines of Western Civilization, as do the intellectuals who champion their cause, to what can we ascribe this essentially self-destructive behavior? In a word, what is their reasoning?

To describe their behavior as self-destructive and pathological is to suggest that the answer is to be found in psychiatry, and I believe that, indeed, is where it is to be found. All the classic signs are in evidence, the defense mechanisms, the rage, the paranoia, and the obsessive compulsive insistence on endlessly repeating the same failed behavior in the belief that different results can be obtained the next time it is tried. But, at the bottom of it all, I believe, lies the simple fact that liberty, which is at the core of all Jeffersonian liberalism, scares the very hell out of the whole of the Western Liberal Establishment.