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Happy 4th Think About This As You Celebrate

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And when one of the "enlightened" types (inside or outside) starts berating us, just remember why and how we got here, and that, WARTS AND ALL, there is no other country on earth that was founded on and still operates today on the precept that government should serve the people-not the other way-and that all people "are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." High treason, don't you think????? Consider Franklin's admonition that "Gentlemen, if we do not hang together then we shall surely hang separately." That admonition is still true. The thing that makes this country different is that we believe in the PURSUIT--we aren't perfect, but we work to solve the problems and recognize the process incorporates many dissenting views that are and should be respected. That's what, at the gut level, makes us Americans and not ________(fill in the blank with your specific interest group)-Americans. When this grand 228-year experiment is over is when we quit remembering and acting upon the lessons and the sacrifices of those who put it on the line and gave it all so we could enjoy liberty, and we sink into self-serving, destructive disrespectful partisanship (for whatever pet cause). Isn't it ironic that the enemies of freedom and our way of life prey upon us by cynically manipulating the very safeguards that were put there to ensure our liberties? Happy Fourth!
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