I’m sitting here and watching some backyard fireworks, listening to country music, and in a mild food coma from pulled pork and beer. I was thinking the last couple of days what it means to be American. I think it is the fact that this nation and culture was perhaps unique in human history because it came from a collective and deep impulse to assert rights and liberty, and to engage in self-guidance and determination. Every other revolution has been a replacement of one authority by another. The American revolution was the replacement of authority from a ruling class by authority stemming from the individual person in recognition of human rights. This is why the first and second amendments are so important, because they devolve the traditional tools of the ruling class to the individual because the individual is the source of authority in a free nation.
I think this is also why the progressives are offensive in so many ways, because they want to impose their will over people, because they think they know best. It is not that they don’t often have some good ideas, but it’s how they wish to impose them.
Anyway, have a good fourth and put proud to be an American on repeat. Maybe watch the patriot, too. Great movie, but get the extended cut!
Well said!
I’m sitting here and watching some backyard fireworks, listening to country music, and in a mild food coma from pulled pork and beer. I was thinking the last couple of days what it means to be American. I think it is the fact that this nation and culture was perhaps unique in human history because it came from a collective and deep impulse to assert rights and liberty, and to engage in self-guidance and determination. Every other revolution has been a replacement of one authority by another. The American revolution was the replacement of authority from a ruling class by authority stemming from the individual person in recognition of human rights. This is why the first and second amendments are so important, because they devolve the traditional tools of the ruling class to the individual because the individual is the source of authority in a free nation.
I think this is also why the progressives are offensive in so many ways, because they want to impose their will over people, because they think they know best. It is not that they don’t often have some good ideas, but it’s how they wish to impose them.
Anyway, have a good fourth and put proud to be an American on repeat. Maybe watch the patriot, too. Great movie, but get the extended cut!