When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
So wrote the Founding Fathers in the opening words of the Declaration of Independence. Independence from a distant, unfeeling, self-righteous ruling class. Independence from a political system that was so tyrannical that these men pledged their lives, honor and all that they had to give birth to a radical political idea: government for, by and of the people. Representative government. Not by elitists but by men, and now women, elected by the people. Not a democracy, warned against by the founders, but a federal form of government. Three separate branches to act as checks and balances, one against the other.
Believe it or not not all of those in the Colonies agreed. There were those who wished to remain tied to Mother England. Tories they were called. Elites who did not agree with rule by for and of 'we the people'
Well, those Tories are still alive and well and still doing their damnedest to destroy those ideas and concepts brought forward in those tumultuous days of the 1770's. Ideas and concepts that have refined and revised to give us the America I grew up loving. Ideas and concepts nurtured in battle and defended with blood sweat and tears by thousands of Americans for over 200 years.
Those Tories are now today's Liberals, Leftists, Progressives, Socialists, Communists and anyone, Left or Right wing, who believes that they know more than I do about how I should live my life. What is good, or bad, for me. What I should believe in, or not. These people,, groups and ideologies are an affront to what I believe this country is, and should be, about.
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