I started reading mid-post, missing entirely the source. I thought, as I continued to the end, that, with minor exceptions to content or context, you were writing a list of grievances with which patriotic American should level in advance of their removing our favorite tin-pot despot. Times have parallels. Your intent, or my incomplete reading, gives rise to what justly We The People should be planning. Could we find 56 signatories willing to give call to the cause, knowing they were putting their fortunes and lives of their families at grave risk? Thank TC. We the people only remember (or read and understood) the synopsis, the buggy trace sticker, version of our birthright Declaration of Indepence. Happy 4th, patriot.
I am glad you posted this! I got my booket of the Constitution out July 1st and have been reading it since then.
A glass raised to you and yours on this day of our nation’s liberation; keep your chin up and take heart that we will all be free especially we women from the tyranny of this attempt to destroy us as a whole nation. We will prevail. 😎😘
Most of the "charges" against the English King were bullshit of course - or at least bigly exaggerated - but hey, if you're going to write a document that will almost certainly threaten your life, liberty, family, and wealth, then you might as well pump up the grievances.
I still hold the view that the 13 original colonies should have bided their time for at least another generation or two - and then negotiated a peaceful and fruitful independence, dealing with an elected prime minister, and not a mad king. The issue - as it is in every bit of American history - was slavery.
One can only bide his time until things become intolerable, and then planning and action will ensue. One cannot wait for a later fate to step in. We have agency and volition and should use them.
And, yes, indeed, slavery permeates all of our history, including now with wage slavery and people being CONTROLLED by ICE, AI, military actions, threats of military actions and invasions, needless and ridiculous lawsuits, all methods of suppression and bending others to the will of this Mad King and his head henchman, Stephen Miller.
Above is Heather Cox Ricardson's Politics Chat from two days ago, and instead of TRUMP, she reads and discusses the Declaration of Independence. It's well worth the listen, as she talks about what each portion means, what it is saying and why it is there. Very informative, and I wish every MAGA would listen to it, as what our forefathers declared what was happening back then and why they were declaring independence from--and it sounds an awful lot like Trump. Just saying.
I started reading mid-post, missing entirely the source. I thought, as I continued to the end, that, with minor exceptions to content or context, you were writing a list of grievances with which patriotic American should level in advance of their removing our favorite tin-pot despot. Times have parallels. Your intent, or my incomplete reading, gives rise to what justly We The People should be planning. Could we find 56 signatories willing to give call to the cause, knowing they were putting their fortunes and lives of their families at grave risk? Thank TC. We the people only remember (or read and understood) the synopsis, the buggy trace sticker, version of our birthright Declaration of Indepence. Happy 4th, patriot.
It is truly remarkable that the list of grievances against George III fits Trump so exactly.
I am glad you posted this! I got my booket of the Constitution out July 1st and have been reading it since then.
A glass raised to you and yours on this day of our nation’s liberation; keep your chin up and take heart that we will all be free especially we women from the tyranny of this attempt to destroy us as a whole nation. We will prevail. 😎😘
Thank you TC. I had never read the whole declaration and found it very interesting and enlightening. So again, thank you! Good fireworks too!
History is just an echo, and here we are again. We barely solved a thing.
Most of the "charges" against the English King were bullshit of course - or at least bigly exaggerated - but hey, if you're going to write a document that will almost certainly threaten your life, liberty, family, and wealth, then you might as well pump up the grievances.
I still hold the view that the 13 original colonies should have bided their time for at least another generation or two - and then negotiated a peaceful and fruitful independence, dealing with an elected prime minister, and not a mad king. The issue - as it is in every bit of American history - was slavery.
One can only bide his time until things become intolerable, and then planning and action will ensue. One cannot wait for a later fate to step in. We have agency and volition and should use them.
And, yes, indeed, slavery permeates all of our history, including now with wage slavery and people being CONTROLLED by ICE, AI, military actions, threats of military actions and invasions, needless and ridiculous lawsuits, all methods of suppression and bending others to the will of this Mad King and his head henchman, Stephen Miller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCsf4t2bxjA
Above is Heather Cox Ricardson's Politics Chat from two days ago, and instead of TRUMP, she reads and discusses the Declaration of Independence. It's well worth the listen, as she talks about what each portion means, what it is saying and why it is there. Very informative, and I wish every MAGA would listen to it, as what our forefathers declared what was happening back then and why they were declaring independence from--and it sounds an awful lot like Trump. Just saying.
I propose a toast: To Donald! May he roast in Hell with his fascist forebear George III!
Just like our current congressional Democrats and we the people should bide our time??