Posted on 08/04/2021 9:19:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
The story of America is unique in human history. Looking at the millennia of civilization, we see people exchanging one form of oppression with another. Not long ago, slavery and oppression were the universal principle of government. Around the world, power was held by the strongest, concentrated in the elite.
To be sure, there were times that people revolted against oppression, but in all these cases the people traded one tyrant for another in the hopes of finding a more just master. Look at the change from the Senate to Caesar, Czar to Lenin, Lenin to Stalin, King Louis XVI to Napoleon, the Qing Dynasty to Communist China, Yellow Emperor to Red Dictator, Wilhelm II to the Weimar Republic, and the Weimar Republic to Adolf Hitler. In all these instances, people rejected one ruler and fell into the hands of another.
Something new and different happened in America in 1776. Instead of replacing a tyrannical king with another overlord, the Founding Fathers acted on the bold proposition that the American people can govern themselves. That is what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote “We the People,” and that is what the world understood when the Founders presented the Declaration of Independence on the world stage.
Instead of replacing the king with another all-powerful head of state, the American people accepted responsibility for their own freedom. “We the People” chose to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” That is no small matter. We are not given the task to “try” to be free or to “hope” to be free. As Americans, “We the People” must “secure” liberty for ourselves and for future generations.
In recent years, we have seen threats to liberty increase and the very foundation of our nation is at risk. The tyranny we have fought to keep at bay for more than two centuries is encroaching through an ever-growing bureaucracy and government overreach under the guise of taking care of us. Just as the foundation of our liberty is within each human heart, the response to these new threats begins in the heart of every American.
If “We the People” wish to remain free and truly secure the blessings of liberty for our children and grandchildren, we must once again pursue the simple solutions on which the Founders relied. These solutions are simple, but they are not easy. They require dedication, commitment, and consistency, but most of all they require a belief that they will work—that these simple solutions will, in fact, solve our complex problems and not only protect liberty but secure it for generations to come.
What are these liberty-preserving solutions? We know that liberty begins in the home and family. Strong, patriotic families will raise strong children who can resist the temptations of tyranny and accept the responsibility of liberty. The most important work we can do to preserve our nation is within our own home with our own family. The values we give our children through our daily life will determine the future of the republic.
One of the most important lessons we can teach our children is who we are. In a time when Marxist radicals are trying everything to undermine and distort the study of history, knowing our heritage has never been more important. In order to understand our liberty, we must know our history and understand that the foundation of our government is the protection of our God-given rights. We are not classes and identities but individuals who belong to the freest nation on Earth, and it is up to us to preserve that freedom.
More than anything, we know that stories touch the heart and pierce the soul like no other medium. We must nourish our souls and inspire our children with the story of America, the story of God’s people, and the story of liberty as it has appeared throughout human history.
When “We the People” take responsibility for our freedom — when we cultivate a garden of liberty, educate our children, worship God, and live according to the virtues that freedom requires — tyrants will have no power over us. When we are tempted to fear and despair, we must all remember that the Good, the True, and the Beautiful remain at the heart of true freedom.
No matter the administration in power, these eternal principles do not change. These are the principles on which the Founding Fathers set our great nation, and they are the principles through which we will secure liberty if we have the courage to accept our responsibility.
Our Founders recognized that it is the duty of the People to deal with tyrants. Why that hasn’t happened yet either means they’re not tyrannical enough, or we’ve lost our nerve.
We seem to lack the necessary fortitude to do what is needed to retain out liberty.
Heck, we can’t even convince people to stop re-electing the people who are intentionally flooding our country with foreigners.
Instead of replacing the king with another all-powerful head of state, the American people accepted responsibility for their own freedom. “We the People” chose to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” That is no small matter. We are not given the task to “try” to be free or to “hope” to be free. As Americans, “We the People” must “secure” liberty for ourselves and for future generations.
I'm confused.
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but it didn't contain "We the People."
The Constitution begins with "We the People... secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” That was written by James Madison. Jefferson was in France with Benjamin Franklin at the time.
-PJ
we’ve lost our nerve.
This global reset bull crap has been planned for a long time
I do believe that the Democrat players who are trying to implement it or shocked at how much compliance they got from the citizenry when they told them to lock down socially distance and wear face diapers
Furthermore I think they’re shocked at the amount of compliance they got with these experimental vaccines which are really poison shots that are clearly not doing any good and killing / maiming millions of people
I think they are also shocked that our great and wonderful president let them steal the election
I do believe a reckoning is coming however
As conservatives are locked and loaded and heavily armed and will not tolerate very much more
November 3 was the final straw and if it is not rectified this month yes this month August !!!!!then all bets are off
We’ve been very patient as Mike Flynn and Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis and the whole cruise of told us all about the fraud and we’ve been waiting for the Arizona audit and all this other nonsense and they’ve been saying August August August August August for the longest time
Well here it is August
Enough of the waiting for Durham bowl crap waiting for the Arizona audit bull crap waiting for this waiting for that
it’s time to show your cards!!! Let’s ROLL !!
>>I do believe a reckoning is coming however<<
Don’t bet on it. We have surrendered our means to fight, We have not talked the talk nor walked the walk. We are no longer governed but we are ruled like a common 18th century European nation without a constitution.
Yeah, I caught that as well. I guess the author was on a roll, like John Belushi in Animal House.
<>When “We the People” take responsibility for our freedom . . . tyrants will have no power over us.<>
Quite right.
Article V.
I would like to disagree, but I can’t.
If the remnants of the former Republic were going to do anything, the past year would have been the perfect time.
Instead, we watched TV as the Democrat’s black-clad armies burned cities, as unprecedented election meddling and media manipulation stole an election, and as the newly installed Junta consolidated their power.
“the People” are in the Declaration of Independence too, just not the phrase “We the People.” I suppose because the declaration was not drafeted as a form of government, rather it was as it is titled, a rejection of the current government. It is a document announcing resistance, revolution, throwing off of a rotten government.
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 of 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.
The people have been cowed, the tyrants a running free and wild ANYTHING GOES for THEM not You
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