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D. Hawthorne over at American Greatness has something on which to contemplate given the trajectory this country is following when compared to what the Founders intended:

The American Founding: The Declaration’s Natural Rights ? Individual Character Formation to Create Good Citizens Capable of Self-Government ? Culture with Vibrant Mediating Institutions ? Limited Government
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Today’s Progressive Revolution: Relativism in a Naked Public Square ? Society Dominated by a Powerful Elite ? Atrophied Culture ? Individuals as Wards of the State

And then he goes to state what he means for each of these:

• The American Founding: The Declaration’s Natural Rights
• The American Founding:  Creating Good Citizens Capable of Self-Government
• The American Founding: Building a Culture with Vibrant Mediating Institutions (don’t miss the bit about “social justice”)
• The American Founding: Limited Government

And then he compares those foundational ideas and goals with what we see with what the Progressivism has wrought:

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Yeah, those “Open Borders” people are all about keeping them open – until it actually affects them and their families:

Hollywood superstar George Clooney is reportedly going to move his family back to the United States amid a myriad of terrorist activity in England. Clooney, who is pro-refugee, currently lives in England with his wife Amal and newborn twins Ella and Alexander. According to a report from Life and Style Magazine, Clooney and his family are making the move over increased security concerns in the United Kingdom.

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This is hilarious and yet another example of unions going over the top and diving into the proverbial “No logic and bad optics” chasm. Another one of those “you’ve GOT to be kidding me” stupidity of a government union.  College brings in goats to eat weeds and the AFSCME wants to put in a grievance that union members no longer have jobs because of four legged critters? Reformatted, emphasis mine:

The 400-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has filed a grievance contending that the work the goats are doing in a wooded lot is taking away jobs from laid-off union workers.  “AFSCME takes protecting the jobs of its members very seriously and we have an agreed-upon collective bargaining agreement with Western Michigan,” said Union President Dennis Moore. “We expect the contract to be followed, and in circumstances where we feel it’s needed, we file a grievance.”  The grievance alleges that the university did not notify the union that it was planning to use goat crews on campus, according to a chief steward report supplied to the Battle Creek Enquirer.

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It’s all about the demonization.

You know, Democrats just love to blow through “words” or “memes” about their opponents.  It isn’t enough to call them (er, that would be us) wrong, silly, or dumb.  No, it is always a case of trying to make us so distasteful personally as to make people in the middle shirk from the stances when it comes to voting.  An example of what they’ve done to themselves is that at the turn of the last century, Democrats (and some Republicans) that loved the idea of Socialism (and anti_Constitutional values) but knew it would never fly at the ballot box called themselves “Progressives” – they just couldn’t be truthful.  They wore that out and switched to being “Liberals” until they made that radioactive and have now switched back to Progressive.  I do think it rather laughable that some of them, Bernie Sanders among them, call themselves “Democrat Socialists” as if there is a difference between being that and just being a Socialist.  After all (and if you remember), none of the leading Democrats would dare tell anyone with a microphone what the difference was between a Democrat and a Socialist.  But I digress.

White Supremacist – you have to appreciate the irony of Democrats, who founded the Ku Klux Klan, trying to label others as being the racists.

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I thought that coal was bad and set up the “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!”, right? That “everyone had to do their part”.  SUCH shock and rancor that the US simply decided not to self-immolate its economy – where’s all the uproar about this?

1,600 new coal-fired power plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries.

Over all, 1,600 coal plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries, according to Urgewald’s tally, which uses data from the Global Coal Plant Tracker portal. The new plants would expand the world’s coal-fired power capacity by 43 percent.

But OUR media, what did they say?  Was it about the hypocrisy of the

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OK, obviously not in person but perhaps a moment or two of reflection.  Too often, I believe, we take what we have for granted in this country – and I don’t mean the material blessings either. More to the point that our country was found on the idea of Individual Liberties encased in our foundational philosophical document – the Declaration of Independance.  It holds, contrary to all political thought at the time, that our allegiance was not to a particular plot of land nor to a King and his aristocracy and cadre of nobles.

No, just as with Luther’s Reformation, just as the death of Jesus on the cross that ripped the Temple curtain of the Holies of Holies which proclaimed that we have a direct path to God and not have to go through a mass of priests and layers of organized Church(es), they proclaimed that instead of being ruled by a Government, we were to be our own Government – the idea of self-government was a heretical, literally revolutionary, idea.

One that gave birth to the

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