Posted on 07/04/2024 5:31:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A few centuries ago, some young men refused to have their property and their political autonomy redistributed to an elite thousands of miles away.
The very idea of having a revolution over such a thing seems entirely absurd to today’s wokes.
Or as another Englishman once again, “Imagine there’s no countries”. It’s easy if you live in the EU.
All that the Crown really wanted was for the colonists to pay their “fair share” of taxes, the same demand constantly put forward by Democrat millionaires like Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Sen. Bernie Sanders, a share that was determined thousands of miles away. All that the colonists wanted was the rights of Englishmen that they believed they were entitled to. After a great deal of bloodshed, the colonists won the right to be Americans instead—an odd series of consonants and vowels having to do with an Italian explorer but meaning personal freedom and limited government. Now we have free things, unlimited government, and our freedom shrinks in proportion to the growth of our free things and of the government that hands them out.
To the denizens of public housing watching the fireworks burn briefly in the sky, who get a free ride on everything from food to housing by taking away everyone else’s freedom and future, the fireworks are just one more free thing in the sea of free things that they swim in.
To the Democrat voters of the welfare state, this is Fireworks Day. Every country has its fireworks days and this is the day that this one chooses to light up the night sky. The day means nothing to them because though they are surrounded by free things, they aren’t free. The difference between freedom and free things has been progressively erased so that many think that the American Revolution was fought because...
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A lot of people just want “stuff”.
the journals of John Smith would have been interesting to study. I am content to work for food for me and wifey. NOT for anyone else though. get your own!
Most people believe that their particular “free thing” was earned, or that they are somehow entitled to it. Or that they were promised it. Or that there are many unjustified free things and so much waste and government corruption that their free thing is easily affordable.
There are plenty of sacred free things on this forum.
You can get all the free stuff you want.
All you have to be is an illegal alien, er.. ah.. a ‘’migrant’’, hop over the border and you get all sorts of free stuff.
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