Don't let the left pervert what July 4th means

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245 years ago, our Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.

In that charter, the foundation for our country’s philosophy was laid and the principles that would inform our system of government was enshrined.

It read, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

We must never forget those principles.

They are what makes America unique.

America did not become great because government made it great.

America became great because people made it great.

But our principles are in danger of being dismantled.

Our culture has changed, our civil liberties have been denigrated, and the core values of our Founding Fathers’ vision have been ignored or deemed irrelevant.

Our freedoms have been taken away by excessive government overreach.

In the past year, during the pandemic, DEMOCRAT governors in many states across the country took power they did not legally possess and rewarded themselves with multi-million dollar book deals and self-serving press conferences.

These same DEMOCRATS created one set of rules for citizens while ignoring their own policies so as not to inconvenience themselves.

They supported defunding the police and slandered law enforcement as “systemically racist” while allowing crime and lawlessness to increase. Now they are comically trying to blame Republicans for the crime surge.

The illegitimate Biden regime has exacerbated these problems.

The DEMOCRAT Party has opened our borders to illegal immigrants by offering them incentives to come here while paying American citizens to stay home.

DEMOCRATS created inflation by spending trillions of our tax dollars on radical left-wing causes.

DEMOCRATS mismanaged the pandemic with unscientific policies.

DEMOCRATS created racial division and support indoctrinating our children with the false narrative that America is fundamentally evil.

DEMOCRATS now praises anti-Americans like Gwen Berry

DEMOCRATS canceled the July 4 fireworks that were planned at Mount Rushmor.”

Nancy Pelosi, who seems to be spending most of her time concocting a partisan witch-hunt and removing statues of historical DEMOCRATS from the Capitol Building, has canceled the Independence Day outdoor concert that is regularly held on the Capitol’s west front on July 4. She has also refused to open the fortified Capitol because she doesn't want citizens to know can see how she operates.

Anyone who pushes back against the Left’s radical orthodoxy is now at risk of being indicted as an "insurrectionist".

That's exactly what George III called our ancestors.




https://spectator.org/left-cancel-independence-day/
 
Our Revolution

It’s been a hard year for the American Revolution.

It’s been smeared by the failing New York Times’s bogus 1619 project as a fight to preserve slavery.

Juneteenth, a worthy event in its own right, is replacing July 4, marking a supposedly more palatable and less flawed Independence Day.

Statues of leaders of the American Revolution have been vandalized and torn down.

This is wrongheaded, ungrateful, and destructive.

1776 marked the beginning of the greatest revolution the world has ever known.

It succeeded where so many others have failed, delivered a severe blow to monarchy and aristocracy, inspired republican movements around the world, and won the independence of a new country whose power and ideals have influenced the course of history ever since.

We shouldn’t disrespect the uphill struggle that killed more Americans per capita than any conflict since - besides the Civil War that Republicans were forced to fight to stop DEMOCRATS from destroying the nation.

But there was nothing like the bloodbath when royalist resistance to the French Revolution was put down in a spasm of savagery in 1793, let alone the terrors that characterized 20th-century communist revolutions.

Our Revolution’s military leader, George Washington, had no ambitions to rule on his own and tamped down a potential military coup in 1783.

Our Revolution didn’t devour its own. Its leaders died in their beds. At the end of long lives, sworn political enemies John Adams and Thomas Jefferson struck up a respectful correspondence, and both died on July 4, 1826, still honored 50 years after the Revolution.

When the country’s politics diverged after our Revolution, no one was imprisoned, guillotined or exiled for his beliefs. Instead, the profound disagreements between the two sides played out in battles in the newspapers and at the ballot box.

Our Revolution didn’t seek to wipe all that had come before.

There was no Year Zero. The idealism of our Revolution endured. (Thomas Paine: “We have it in our power to begin the world over again”) was leavened with a realism about human nature (James Madison: “There is a degree of depravity in mankind”).

Our Revolution established a republican system that lasted until 2020.

Where other revolutions have given way to serial and violent changes of regime, our Revolution led to the adoption of a constitution of remarkable staying power.

This was an achievement of world-historical importance.

Let's honor its memory as we mourn its decease.
 
This year some of us celebrate our nation’s birth at a time when the ideals that animated our break with England are under siege throughout our political, business, educational, and cultural institutions.

The iconic preamble to the Declaration of Independence–– “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”––is under assault, and tyrannical ambition continues to undermine the infrastructure of our liberty.

We focus so frequently on that world-changing preamble that we risk forgetting the bulk of the Declaration is a detailed indictment of tyranny very similar to what we are facing right now.
 
The Declaration of Independence was a truly revolutionary document.

It was the work of what had been 13 separate colonies audaciously declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.”

It is a document of dissolution, self-determination, and reformation based on the principle of freedom for individuals.

With this document, the colonies were dissolving ties to their mother country and hurling themselves collectively into a hopeless struggle against the mightiest power on earth.

The Declaration spelled out a principle thoroughly incomprehensible to the modern left — that governments are meant to be subservient to their citizens: “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 abolish it, and to institute new Government.”

In its day there was nothing like it. There have been a few since, and none so successful. It was immediately incendiary. Its flames leapt, not just in America, but across the world and across time.

Now its day is done.
 
I could only just imagine the drivel that was posted above, but I won't even do that..
The ignore function is awesome.
 
Decades of assaults on our Constitution have weakened our defense against tyranny.

Power has increasingly been devolved unto and concentrated in the federal government and its ever-expanding number of agencies.

Professional bureaucracies are insulated from accountability, and leftists have gradually unconstitutionally suborned the three functions of government into one institution backed by the coercive power of the central government, destroying the balance of powers that allowed America to grow, prosper, and become dominant in the last century.

The extralegal activities of agencies under the Biden regime have metastasized like a deadly cancer.

With the Chinese disease as the excuse, the unelected and unaccountable careerists at the NIH and the CDC became all-powerful commissars, issuing diktats on everything from mask mandates to the abolition of property rights.

We have an even more shameful example of dictatorship in the excesses of our national security and justice agencies in the aftermath of the January 6 demonstrations at the Capitol, which the progressives and their mendacious media minions eagerly redefined as a “deadly armed insurrection.”

People whose only "crimes" are misdemeanor trespassing have been imprisoned for half a year, many in solitary confinement.

Meanwhile the NSA spies on Americans and the FBI concocts a mythic “white supremacist” conspiracy to overthrow the government, even as thousands of hours of exculpatory video evidence are embargoed by prosecutors.

The ideologically-purged US military and the alphabet agencies agencies provide the guns that the regime is using keep citizens from demanding their rights.

This corruption of federal power is tyranny.
 
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