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I think we're getting around to the starting point again - it will be 250 years next year:

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal and independent; that from that equal creation they derive in rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes: 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, begun at a distinguished period, and pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to subject them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." https://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/jeffersons-draft-of-the-declaration-of-independence.php

Yep, we're getting there...

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A People seem to Get the GubMint they/them Deserve, sadly or necessarily perhaps

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Mar 19·edited Mar 19Liked by T.L. Davis

You know, I hear that comment a lot, but it doesn't take into account the fact that the sociopaths who inhabit government have, for generations, been using its limitless taxpayer funding to mold the society into what we see today. This is not accidental, and it is certainly not due entirely to what "people want". Government has been very actively suppressing, discrediting and subduing arguments and facts against it for ...well, forever.

JFK assassination, Gulf of Tonkin, Remember the Maine...no difference between these and "safe and effective". We don't deserve this.

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founding
Mar 19Liked by T.L. Davis

So true. 1913 was a really bad year.

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When you Cede Power to GrubMint you Diminish Yourself and Yes this has been going on for Generations ..... So What??? Is that an Excuse to follow the earlier precidents???

Each generation gave away their liberties.

Perhaps the tide is turning however. Would Americans now surrender their Gold as FDR ordered??? Will we surrender our Guns??? Will we surrender to Another VaXXX??? Will we accept CBDc's ??? Wokeism ??? Continuing Illegal Invasion ???

Time will Tell, but the USA is almost completely the USSA now, so drawing "the line in the sand" is upon Us,..... We/Me/You.

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Mar 20·edited Mar 20

I agree with you, people should have bren paying closer attention. Some of us were; I am the unfortunate person who was handing out Mises Institute literature at work in the 1990's.

Conditions were artificially good even then, lulling people to sleep with consumerism and entertainment. The message was not generally received. It was very frustrating. The bottomless-moneyed government was able to seduce most Americans.

But I welcome all of you now. And I don't blame them too much for taking longer to wake up, it is now pointless, water over the dam.

Welcome to the party, pal!

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Mar 19Liked by T.L. Davis

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

~~H. L. Mencken

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Mar 19Liked by T.L. Davis

"It would be a right of the people, even if there were no government at all"

Bless you, sir.

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Mar 19Liked by T.L. Davis

The Bill of Rights as well as the Constitution itself, both of which extoll the unalienable rights bestowed on individuals by God Himself, are meant to be lines in the sand protecting individual citizens from government, NOT the government from citizens! Considering one justice doesn't even know what a woman is, one may be compromised from Lolita flights, another worked for Bush and may be sympathetic to government, along with two nit-wits, I'm not too comfortable about pending results.

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founding
Mar 19Liked by T.L. Davis

Que the Andy Jackson response. Time's acoming.

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We have no more rights. It's always been an illusion. The only right I have is to be taxed. Oh well I'm glad I don't hide in Lala Land like so many others. My advice has been to prepare because it's going to get ugly.

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