I’ve long advocated that a part of commemorating the nation’s birthday should be a reading of the declaration, and not just celebrating with beer, barbecue and fireworks. It seems particularly important in light of events of the past few years.
[Update late afternoon, as we’re slow-grilling ribs]
The Patriot’s Creed.
Can’t agree more. Particular attention should be paid to the list of grievances. Normally, a boring section of the DofI but especially appropriate with the Anti-Americans, Anti-Liberty dopes in the White House and the Democratic Senate.
I have read that list of grievances many times but. Few of them are relevant to our current issues with our federal government.
I do think we could build a list worthy of justifying replacing the current government but it would be different from the list in our Declaration.
‘Nother thing:
Lefty Soccie progs will never admit it but they think of themselves as much more civilized than the Near-Neanderthal Founding Fathers. Oh so much more refined, grasious, intelligent, wise, and – worst of all – they think they’ve expunged the negatives of Human Behavior the Founders understood so well.
And, of course, they have not. No one has.
And of course, Calvin Coolidge said it better than I ever could:
“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”
Ever since I first read about it a decade or so back, I’ve greatly preferred the American’s Creed to the Pledge of Allegiance.