Our country's Independence; its Experiment with Democracy, has not been under such attack since just before the Civil War. Facts mount leading me to ask if the far right-wing is not only determined to kill democracy, destroy the state and curtail our rights but to also deprive minorities of a decent education; affordable housing; access …
Our country's Independence; its Experiment with Democracy, has not been under such attack since just before the Civil War. Facts mount leading me to ask if the far right-wing is not only determined to kill democracy, destroy the state and curtail our rights but to also deprive minorities of a decent education; affordable housing; access to affordable health care and access to the vote. Ladders to 'The American Dream', there're not mentioned anymore.
Is genocide part of the far-right's agenda in the U.S.? Are the black robes worn by most of the justices in the Supreme Court a polite alternative to the white, hooded ones worn by the KKK?
Tom, on this July 4th, Independence Day celebration, you left us with important thoughts from Tom Paine's COMMON SENSE.
“In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense: and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves: that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day.’
'Time makes more Converts than Reason.'
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which their affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling.’
‘Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe’
___Thomas Paine, Common Sense
I have taken parts from your piece, Tom (reordered it a bit) with gratitude for your common sense in bringing what it at stake for us closer, and closer, still. Thank you.
Our country's Independence; its Experiment with Democracy, has not been under such attack since just before the Civil War. Facts mount leading me to ask if the far right-wing is not only determined to kill democracy, destroy the state and curtail our rights but to also deprive minorities of a decent education; affordable housing; access to affordable health care and access to the vote. Ladders to 'The American Dream', there're not mentioned anymore.
Is genocide part of the far-right's agenda in the U.S.? Are the black robes worn by most of the justices in the Supreme Court a polite alternative to the white, hooded ones worn by the KKK?
Tom, on this July 4th, Independence Day celebration, you left us with important thoughts from Tom Paine's COMMON SENSE.
“In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense: and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves: that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day.’
'Time makes more Converts than Reason.'
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which their affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling.’
‘Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe’
___Thomas Paine, Common Sense
I have taken parts from your piece, Tom (reordered it a bit) with gratitude for your common sense in bringing what it at stake for us closer, and closer, still. Thank you.