When the elected delegates went off to the Continental Congress to represent the people of the 13 colonies, and eventually to sign the Declaration of Independence, everyone in America was a “subject.” However, alive in the hearts of those “subjects” who were delegates to the Continental Congress was a unique vision; a vision of life without kings, where each human being is himself sovereign before God.
The Declaration of Independence recognizes and claims on behalf of all mankind that the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness don’t come from a government, they flow from the divine to the individual.
This patriot vision, found in the Declaration of Independence, articulates our national creed and is the very foundation of American exceptionalism – in it we are truly unique in the annals of time, but its success was not foreordained.
A mere two months after the Declaration of Independence was ratified, the British Redcoats defeated George Washington’s army in the Battle of Long Island and Washington’s tiny army would be forced to escape into the night – the first of many times that a small group of men, struggling for their lives, was all that stood between the idea of the sovereign individual and the reality of being a subject.
Today, the liberty of Americans is once again threatened, this time by those who profess the ideology of the new Democrat Party – whose ideas and policies are almost the polar opposite of those expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Consider that in the Declaration of Independence our patriot Founders opposed confiscatory taxes and the expropriation of private property, they opposed a regime that rendered their legislative bodies impotent, they opposed arbitrary non-jury trials, they opposed a regime that “burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people,” they opposed a regime that “excited domestic insurrections amongst us,” they opposed a regulatory state that “sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance,” they opposed a regime that tried Americans “for pretended offences,” and more generally for abolishing their Common Law rights and privileges.
And now consider that today, Democrats are committing the same depredations against American citizens: They want a 70 percent or higher tax rate, they plan a “Green New Deal” and many other acts that would confiscate private property, they have all but shutdown Congress, they have created a whole system of extra-judicial administrative courts to try Americans for fabricated “hate crimes” and other newly created offenses, they have attacked and attempted to prohibit the free exercise of religion, they have loosed violent mobs to loot, burn and occupy private property in our cities, they have suspended, restricted and criminalized the natural right to self-defense and the right to keep and bear arms, they have created and plan to expand a regulatory state that envisions controlling virtually every aspect of American life, from the use of private property to the serving size of your food, they’ve created and plan to expand an army of bureaucrats, inspectors and contact tracers to implement those regulations, and to prevent you from objecting or organizing opposition to them they have enlisted private corporations and obscure government agencies to prevent you from speaking freely and to punish you if you do.
-George Rasley (Democrats Now Stand For The Exact Opposite Of The Declaration Of Independence)
(H/T: ConservativeHQ)
