Each year around the Fourth of July, I consider the Declaration.
I also conclude that the colonists didn't have it nearly as bad as we do under our government today.
And nobody does much of anything about it.
I'm thankful for Independence, but the current taxation schemes alone are much more egregious than anything George III or Parliament ever inflicted on the Colonies.
The Declaration is much more powerful when you read it as a case being made, not just a famous opening line. The preamble gives the principle. The grievances show the proof.
Yes. I mostly remembered the first few lines myself. Then I started doing the research and got a proper education on the really important parts of the document.
Revolutionary ideas and spirit. Timely article. It seems that those able to articulate this voice are drowned out by all the noise and distraction of today. We have issues but not the cultural fortitude to take much action on them and just continue to vote for the same old scoundrels.
Jefferson had the same worry. He watched the argument he'd spent years building get watered down by committee in a day. He published it anyway. The ideas that survive usually do so because someone refused to let the noise and distraction be the final word.
Each year around the Fourth of July, I consider the Declaration.
I also conclude that the colonists didn't have it nearly as bad as we do under our government today.
And nobody does much of anything about it.
I'm thankful for Independence, but the current taxation schemes alone are much more egregious than anything George III or Parliament ever inflicted on the Colonies.
Regarding taxation you aren't wrong. We have representatives, but I'm not thrilled with how things have gone there either.
The Declaration is much more powerful when you read it as a case being made, not just a famous opening line. The preamble gives the principle. The grievances show the proof.
Yes. I mostly remembered the first few lines myself. Then I started doing the research and got a proper education on the really important parts of the document.
Revolutionary ideas and spirit. Timely article. It seems that those able to articulate this voice are drowned out by all the noise and distraction of today. We have issues but not the cultural fortitude to take much action on them and just continue to vote for the same old scoundrels.
Jefferson had the same worry. He watched the argument he'd spent years building get watered down by committee in a day. He published it anyway. The ideas that survive usually do so because someone refused to let the noise and distraction be the final word.