Posted on 07/08/2017 12:22:47 PM PDT by Baynative
On Independence Day, I spent a lot of time thinking of our Founding Fathers. Not as historical leaders but as regular, everyday men. I thought about what it must have been like for them to live under such tyranny and oppression, their hopes and dreams of something so much better, and their willingness to fight and die to achieve it, all so they could ensure that future generations would never have to experience the things they had.
I, also, couldn’t help but notice that the country we live in today bears no resemblance to the one they fought so hard to create for us.
Look around.
How did we go from true Liberty and unalienable rights to almost complete oppression in 241 years? What changed?
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Knowing that we have seen the rule of law and respect for authority set aside, so many of us still go about our business and let the swamp critters carry on as usual.
In general the FF’s did a great job. 2 perhaps fatal flaws, insufficient checks on the Judiciary and no mechanism to stop a political party from allying with the primary news outlets to subvert the founding principles.
“Knowing that we have seen the rule of law and respect for authority set aside, so many of us still go about our business and let the swamp critters carry on as usual.”
The founders fully understood that what they founded would only last as long as the people appreciated it and defended it.
“A Republic... if you can keep it.”
We now know the answer.
Yep. We are like the spoiled grandchild heirs of a great entrepreneuer who built a fortune through risk taking, innovation and diligent efforts. We have little appreciation for the legacy we’ve inherited and rather than investing the effort to build upon, or merely preserve that legacy, we mindlessly fritter it away...
Over the years we insisted on exercising our 1st Amendment rights without also exercising the obligations that accompany them. The first Amendment is a two-edged sword. The many adversaries that live among us have the same rights and can destroy us with it. Example: muzzies will use it against us by pushing for sharia law.
“A republic if you can keep it”
All instructions come with a CAUTION.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
President Trump may very well have helped save our Republic thus far.
“They did not envision a Star Wars bar room “
True, especially destructive is having 1 of the 2 major political parties in total alliance with these creatures.
Giving women the vote was really the beginning of the end of American Individualism in favor of SJW victim/socialism.
Having Senators represent the People instead of their State’s interest also was a huge mistake, but hardly matters any more now that most States are mere shills for the Feds.
Then there is that behemouth unconstitutional NWO Bureaucracy that keeps on keepin’ on regardless of who we vote into “power.”
The NWO was a goal of at least some of the Founding Fathers, so that’s where the internal struggle has been from the get-go.
But, we don’t have to worry our pretty little heads about that, now do we. Like Bubba&Hill and Bush1&2 and Soeotoro keep telling us - Sovereignty is so yesterday and Individuals are just too stupid to know what’s good for them. To Resist is Futile....
I said this to someone in Spanish class the other day.
The Polish people “do not forget”. That is why they love Donald Trump.
"A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it."
We kept it up until the last 60 years or so.
“Giving women the vote was really the beginning of the end of American Individualism”
I think this is probably true therefore unavoidable. But remember this Trump did win the majority of the married women’s vote FWIW. Also sad to say without the woman vote the Rats would be gone. Sorry rummy chick if you read this but it ‘s just a fact
That only happened when the government started being the source of the people’s income.
This is sadly true.
Girl, you needs to travel.
Get out in the world and see what "complete oppression: really looks like.
Not perfect, but far from “fatally flawed.” We just need to restore that vision.
The founding fathers assumed the continuation of Religion.They did not foresee that a technology and wealth that permits a large segment of the population to live in idleness and the wealth of the country that would push religion out of the minds of most.
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