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Posted on 11/03/2026 4:55:21 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
The American people can never forget the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence—for the simple reason that if they ever do forget, they will no longer be Americans.
As individuals, we are not entirely defined by our personal histories. We can change. So can nations. But just as no one would discard his or her personal history—memories of family and friends, of love nurtured and adversity overcome—for anything less than the most dire of reasons, a nation cannot erase or tamper with its own history unless it has decided to become something else: a new country, unattached to its old founding principles and formative experiences.
A man would only give up his personal past if he believed it was irredeemably wicked and that he must become a wholly new man to be a good man. The same is true for our nation: any case for forgetting or rewriting our national story must assume that our past is thoroughly wicked—that to be good and worthy in the future, we must become something other than the America that was founded in 1776.
Political progressives in the U.S. have long believed that they can improve on America’s founding principles. Woodrow Wilson, in his 1913 book The New Freedom, lamented that some Americans “have never got beyond the Declaration of Independence.” Similarly, dreamers in America’s institutions of higher education—rejecting the American Founders’ belief in a fixed and imperfect human nature—have imagined that our nature could be perfected through the use of government unshackled from the limits imposed by the Constitution.
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This is really sad.
Through my audio books, I have been restoring our history one piece at a time.
All audio is open source and for free in the public domain.
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