It's past time for Americans to know and understand that the Bill of Rights is at risk of destruction by unelected communist leftist politicians and their RINO counterparts. Looking forward to your future posts...
Thank you Frederick. In putting my letter together I scanned thru your Constitution stuff where you also referenced Alien Sedition Act and Lincoln. Great reference material!
You know it strikes me how irreparably boring our American educators managed to make “Civics” in elementary school. Purposefully, illegally, unforgivably boring. Time to correct that! Where are the new textbooks we need for my homeschooled young friends. A populace reared from childhood to understand healthy skepticism and the importance of what is actually required of us to be able citizens and why is 100% necessary in order to run a Democratic Republic. Never again can they be allowed to take our children away.
Thanks, very good post. Makes some things clear to this non-historian that is only suspected but didn’t know. Love the understanding that Lincoln with all his pretty words was in effect playing both sides against the middle like any other politician. They haven’t changed at all and neither has the threat to liberty we perpetually find ourselves living through. We may be found sensible to take the popularization of nearly any political view and simply reverse it to get at the truth. There have been exceptions but they are unfortunately rare.
Thank you. Having said what I said though, I do have to sympathize that Lincoln was inserted into an extraordinary situation in history. Paraphrasing a famous quote of his that he had the South in front of him and the bankers to the rear.
It has always been puzzling to me that out of 330+ million people, THESE mostly sorry specimens are what we pick to run our local, state and federal government!
So true. I'm not unsympathetic to Lincoln and am a fan of many of the things he managed to articulate and accomplish. I don't expect leaders to be free of human foibles and imperfections but I sure do draw the line at honesty and straight-shooting. I don't mind that Jefferson said "We are all gun men" and despite his epic foibles (humanity) I appreciate what he accomplished with all of his Revolutionary buddies.
So if Lincoln "had the South in front of him and bankers to the rear" I wonder what he would say we the people are facing in 2022?
Choosing great leaders (and they are out there) is likely the leading responsibility of citizens who would desire to live with dangerous freedom. And being highly skeptical of their power once they get in office.
Well said. We do have the situation though that the picks we get to choose from are preselected for us! An example is who Cocaine Mitch decides to put money behind. He gave up on the guy in Arizona and is backing Murkowski in Alaska AGAIN!
Yes, it is interesting living in supposedly under the aegis of the Constitution in the USA in these times. Going to be quite a journey to see if the old "Republic" holds together under the current stresses. We have some real doozies out there currently in power. No way the American people chose correctly. Voting is one thing, voting in people who will serve only your worst interests in another.
It's past time for Americans to know and understand that the Bill of Rights is at risk of destruction by unelected communist leftist politicians and their RINO counterparts. Looking forward to your future posts...
Thanks Jim. The old saying. If you don't know your rights you don't have any!
That image reaally gets me. We've all been othered, one way or another(ed).
How outrageous to be so fearful and frustrated that you felt you needed to say that!
Top shelf Dave! Once again you beat me to the punch with the analysis of how the bill of rights has been dead for a long time.
Thank you Frederick. In putting my letter together I scanned thru your Constitution stuff where you also referenced Alien Sedition Act and Lincoln. Great reference material!
You know it strikes me how irreparably boring our American educators managed to make “Civics” in elementary school. Purposefully, illegally, unforgivably boring. Time to correct that! Where are the new textbooks we need for my homeschooled young friends. A populace reared from childhood to understand healthy skepticism and the importance of what is actually required of us to be able citizens and why is 100% necessary in order to run a Democratic Republic. Never again can they be allowed to take our children away.
Thanks, very good post. Makes some things clear to this non-historian that is only suspected but didn’t know. Love the understanding that Lincoln with all his pretty words was in effect playing both sides against the middle like any other politician. They haven’t changed at all and neither has the threat to liberty we perpetually find ourselves living through. We may be found sensible to take the popularization of nearly any political view and simply reverse it to get at the truth. There have been exceptions but they are unfortunately rare.
Thank you. Having said what I said though, I do have to sympathize that Lincoln was inserted into an extraordinary situation in history. Paraphrasing a famous quote of his that he had the South in front of him and the bankers to the rear.
It has always been puzzling to me that out of 330+ million people, THESE mostly sorry specimens are what we pick to run our local, state and federal government!
So true. I'm not unsympathetic to Lincoln and am a fan of many of the things he managed to articulate and accomplish. I don't expect leaders to be free of human foibles and imperfections but I sure do draw the line at honesty and straight-shooting. I don't mind that Jefferson said "We are all gun men" and despite his epic foibles (humanity) I appreciate what he accomplished with all of his Revolutionary buddies.
So if Lincoln "had the South in front of him and bankers to the rear" I wonder what he would say we the people are facing in 2022?
Choosing great leaders (and they are out there) is likely the leading responsibility of citizens who would desire to live with dangerous freedom. And being highly skeptical of their power once they get in office.
Well said. We do have the situation though that the picks we get to choose from are preselected for us! An example is who Cocaine Mitch decides to put money behind. He gave up on the guy in Arizona and is backing Murkowski in Alaska AGAIN!
Yes, it is interesting living in supposedly under the aegis of the Constitution in the USA in these times. Going to be quite a journey to see if the old "Republic" holds together under the current stresses. We have some real doozies out there currently in power. No way the American people chose correctly. Voting is one thing, voting in people who will serve only your worst interests in another.