There are three things that make folks go absolutely bat 💩 crazy:
- Trump
- Bibi and
- Israel.
History AND Politics are us.
There are three things that make folks go absolutely bat 💩 crazy:
Celebrating a quarter millennium of exceptionalism.
Two an a half centuries ago, a provincial people on the edge of a vast continent declared something astonishingly radical: That government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.
These brave patriots, farmers, bankers, merchants, frontiersmen, did not merely protest taxation or quarrel with imperial policy. They announced to the world that political authority itself rests NOT in dynasty, NOT in inherited rank and NOT in force, but in the God-given rights of the governed themselves.
Those people were prepared for Independence.
Are we still those people today?
In all my studies of American History, I have never seen one mention of Taco Bell supplying food to the Confederate army or Steak & Shake attempting to disrupt the Underground RR.
People being so stupid that they believe it is OK for the Islamic Republic of Iran to have nukes, however, law abiding American citizens should not be able to own a firearm.
Oh wait, we don't have to imagine!