Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Why We Are Who We Are

... "and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security,..."

My italics, from the Declaration of Independence.

We Americans should read this document often. The last administration was, in my opinion, an effort to create a despotic regime. One doesn't get to strive for a "permanent Republican majority" without being accused of this, at least.

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