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Which candidate will bring policies that support individualism and your right to think and behave as you wish, even in opposition to the orthodoxy of the government?
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.



1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”

The word is ‘secure.’

That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.

The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.





2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.


Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912



“…and there will be the family…”

The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.




3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?

Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”



This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.
 
Essentially, all our "rights" are under continuous and never ending assault.

Any "rights" we wish to attain or protect will have to be fought for. That means a never ending battle as well.


We'll soon see if the American people are up to the job......or, if there are an American people any longer.
 
Which candidate will bring policies that support individualism and your right to think and behave as you wish, even in opposition to the orthodoxy of the government?
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.



1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”

The word is ‘secure.’

That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.

The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.





2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.


Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912



“…and there will be the family…”

The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.




3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?

Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”



This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.
So much time wasted for wise words that don´t mean a thing. The last two presidents made it more visible: They don´t have policies and tell you anything to make you vote them. You know it: It is all made up.
 
Which candidate will bring policies that support individualism and your right to think and behave as you wish, even in opposition to the orthodoxy of the government?
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.



1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”

The word is ‘secure.’

That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.

The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.





2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.


Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912



“…and there will be the family…”

The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.




3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?

Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”



This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.
So much time wasted for wise words that don´t mean a thing. The last two presidents made it more visible: They don´t have policies and tell you anything to make you vote them. You know it: It is all made up.



You can't possibly be this oblivious.

Obama....no policies???

Trump....no policies????

One gets the feeling you don't think before your post, so you can be just as surprised as the rest of us when you read what you have written.



You and I, same Genus, different species. Clearly 'sapiens' doesn't apply to you.
 
4. Whether or not there are inalienable rights is one of the determiners of the argument between the Founders, and the totalitarians of the Democrat Party.



Another is the Progressive’s belief that they can alter human nature.


For many early forms of government, the aim was to perfect human nature, to create an inherent good in people.
Our Founders eschewed that view, they believed “those aspirations were at best unrealistic and at worst, dangerous. Henceforth, politics would not be a sphere in which human nature is perfected; the political project would not include prodding people to their highest potentials. Instead, modern politics would be based on the assumption that people will express, and act upon, the strong impulses of their flawed natures. People will be self-interested. The ancients had asked, ‘What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this?’”
George Will, “The Conservative Sensibility,” p.19



5. The French Revolution demanded a new human nature, and became a slaughterhouse, bequeathing modern man the communists, Nazis and the Progressives. Rousseau wrote:
“He who dares to undertake the making of a people’s institutions ought to feel himself capable, so to speak, of changing human nature, of transforming each individual, who is by himself a complete and solitary whole, into part of a greater whole from which he in a manner receives his life and being; of altering man’s constitution for the purpose of strengthening it; and of substituting a partial and moral existence for the physical and independent existence nature has conferred on us all.”
Rousseau, The Social Contract, Chapter VII. The Legislator. The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right. Book II. Rousseau, Jean Jacques. 1913. Social Contract & Discourses

Here we see the origin not just of Communists, Nazis and socialists, but of the modern Progressive and Liberal. Hillary Clinton assumed this view in her thesis.




It's not the candidate that counts.....it's the policies they bring.


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Which candidate will bring policies that support individualism and your right to think and behave as you wish, even in opposition to the orthodoxy of the government?
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.



1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”

The word is ‘secure.’

That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.

The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.





2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.


Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912



“…and there will be the family…”

The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.




3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?

Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”



This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.
So much time wasted for wise words that don´t mean a thing. The last two presidents made it more visible: They don´t have policies and tell you anything to make you vote them. You know it: It is all made up.



You can't possibly be this oblivious.

Obama....no policies???

Trump....no policies????

One gets the feeling you don't think before your post, so you can be just as surprised as the rest of us when you read what you have written.



You and I, same Genus, different species. Clearly 'sapiens' doesn't apply to you.
If adding record dept is a policy, so you are right. But at least I can remember that Trump announced to reduce national debt to zero.
Trumps wall is also there. It is a bunch of democrats whom he hides behind so you won´t hold him accountable for his campaign promises.
And Trump is ending regime changes in Venezuela, of course, isn´t he?
 
Wowe
Which candidate will bring policies that support individualism and your right to think and behave as you wish, even in opposition to the orthodoxy of the government?
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.



1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”

The word is ‘secure.’

That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.

The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.





2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.


Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912



“…and there will be the family…”

The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.




3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?

Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”



This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.
Wow, yet another fantastic post. Thanks, PC.
 
Which candidate will bring policies that support individualism and your right to think and behave as you wish, even in opposition to the orthodoxy of the government?
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.



1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”

The word is ‘secure.’

That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.

The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.





2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.


Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912



“…and there will be the family…”

The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.




3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?

Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”



This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.
So much time wasted for wise words that don´t mean a thing. The last two presidents made it more visible: They don´t have policies and tell you anything to make you vote them. You know it: It is all made up.
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Which candidate will bring policies that support individualism and your right to think and behave as you wish, even in opposition to the orthodoxy of the government?
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.



1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”

The word is ‘secure.’

That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.

The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.





2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.


Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912



“…and there will be the family…”

The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.




3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?

Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”



This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.
So much time wasted for wise words that don´t mean a thing. The last two presidents made it more visible: They don´t have policies and tell you anything to make you vote them. You know it: It is all made up.



You can't possibly be this oblivious.

Obama....no policies???

Trump....no policies????

One gets the feeling you don't think before your post, so you can be just as surprised as the rest of us when you read what you have written.



You and I, same Genus, different species. Clearly 'sapiens' doesn't apply to you.
Well, Blue Peter IS a moron. So there's THAT.
 
4. Whether or not there are inalienable rights is one of the determiners of the argument between the Founders, and the totalitarians of the Democrat Party.



Another is the Progressive’s belief that they can alter human nature.


For many early forms of government, the aim was to perfect human nature, to create an inherent good in people.
Our Founders eschewed that view, they believed “those aspirations were at best unrealistic and at worst, dangerous. Henceforth, politics would not be a sphere in which human nature is perfected; the political project would not include prodding people to their highest potentials. Instead, modern politics would be based on the assumption that people will express, and act upon, the strong impulses of their flawed natures. People will be self-interested. The ancients had asked, ‘What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this?’”
George Will, “The Conservative Sensibility,” p.19



5. The French Revolution demanded a new human nature, and became a slaughterhouse, bequeathing modern man the communists, Nazis and the Progressives. Rousseau wrote:
“He who dares to undertake the making of a people’s institutions ought to feel himself capable, so to speak, of changing human nature, of transforming each individual, who is by himself a complete and solitary whole, into part of a greater whole from which he in a manner receives his life and being; of altering man’s constitution for the purpose of strengthening it; and of substituting a partial and moral existence for the physical and independent existence nature has conferred on us all.”
Rousseau, The Social Contract, Chapter VII. The Legislator. The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right. Book II. Rousseau, Jean Jacques. 1913. Social Contract & Discourses

Here we see the origin not just of Communists, Nazis and socialists, but of the modern Progressive and Liberal. Hillary Clinton assumed this view in her thesis.




It's not the candidate that counts.....it's the policies they bring.


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Thank you for ANOTHER fine post, PC.
 
Which candidate will bring policies that support individualism and your right to think and behave as you wish, even in opposition to the orthodoxy of the government?
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.



1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”

The word is ‘secure.’

That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.

The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.





2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.


Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912



“…and there will be the family…”

The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.




3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?

Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”



This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.
So much time wasted for wise words that don´t mean a thing. The last two presidents made it more visible: They don´t have policies and tell you anything to make you vote them. You know it: It is all made up.



You can't possibly be this oblivious.

Obama....no policies???

Trump....no policies????

One gets the feeling you don't think before your post, so you can be just as surprised as the rest of us when you read what you have written.



You and I, same Genus, different species. Clearly 'sapiens' doesn't apply to you.
If adding record dept is a policy, so you are right. But at least I can remember that Trump announced to reduce national debt to zero.
Trumps wall is also there. It is a bunch of democrats whom he hides behind so you won´t hold him accountable for his campaign promises.
And Trump is ending regime changes in Venezuela, of course, isn´t he?
You ARE an idiot, Blue Peter. Congratulations.
 
Which candidate will bring policies that support individualism and your right to think and behave as you wish, even in opposition to the orthodoxy of the government?
And which one will make you be very careful as to what you say or think?
You know the answer.



1.While the Declaration of Independence prefaced heretofore unknown changes in the structure of a society, the most important word in the Declaration of Independence is found here:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, …”

The word is ‘secure.’

That means that the most important function of government is to maintain pre-existing rights, not to create them, nor to dispense them. They are known and self-evident prior to the founding of our nation, are inalienable, whether one chooses to use them or not. They are that men are created equal, and enjoy the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They come from our Creator by virtue of our simply being human beings.

The prime mission of Militant Secularism is to reverse, to 'undo,' this foundational view of America.





2. This is the basis for the battle, one that must be won generationally, and fought against an enemy that lives within our nation, an enemy that is tireless in the attempt to reverse our founding. It is Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, Militant Secularism. The Democrat Party.


Democrat Woodrow Wilson presaged the battle of the individual vs the collective, here:
“Well, we are architects in our time, and our architects are also engineers. …we are rearranging the structures in which we conduct those processes. What we have to undertake is to systematize the foundations of the house… accommodated to all the modern knowledge of structural strength and elasticity, and then slowly change the partitions, relay the walls, let in the light through new apertures, improve the ventilation; until finally, a generation or two from now, the scaffolding will be taken away, and there will be the family in a great building whose noble architecture will at last be disclosed, where men can live as a single community, co-operative as in a perfected, co-ordinated beehive,…”
Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” 1912



“…and there will be the family…”

The irony, of course, is that this mode of thought gave birth to today’s Democrats, who openly plan to abolish the family and concepts like marriage and individuality....and freedom.




3. Well, which is it, the Founders view of inalienable rights from our Creator, or rights lent out by an all-powerful Progressive government administration? Are we sovereign individuals, or simply cogs in one massive collective, subject to rule that government churns out at its whim?

Central to this question is whether Americans have free speech, freedom of thought and conscience, freedom of religion, or these can be restricted, as Justice Kagan has written. Whether the American created at conception has the right to life, or whether government can award the ability kill that individual to another. Whether we own the fruits of our individual labor, or, as a member of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration claimed, “[A]ll of us owe the government; we owe it for everything we have—and that is the basis of obligation—and the government can take everything we have if the government needs it. . . The government can assert its right to have all the taxes it needs for any purpose, either now or at any time in the future.”



This is the battle fought in every election….but the actual stakes are hidden from all but the most astute: it’s not about a particular candidate….it’s the policies that candidate will bring.
So much time wasted for wise words that don´t mean a thing. The last two presidents made it more visible: They don´t have policies and tell you anything to make you vote them. You know it: It is all made up.



You can't possibly be this oblivious.

Obama....no policies???

Trump....no policies????

One gets the feeling you don't think before your post, so you can be just as surprised as the rest of us when you read what you have written.



You and I, same Genus, different species. Clearly 'sapiens' doesn't apply to you.
If adding record dept is a policy, so you are right. But at least I can remember that Trump announced to reduce national debt to zero.
Trumps wall is also there. It is a bunch of democrats whom he hides behind so you won´t hold him accountable for his campaign promises.
And Trump is ending regime changes in Venezuela, of course, isn´t he?
You ARE an idiot, Blue Peter. Congratulations.
Looks like you are just another lapdog, who doesn´t care what Trump is actually doing. Good luck with that but don´t make others suffer.
 
There are reasons to be a Progressive, or, the more commonly used synonym, Liberal…. its definition has changed several times throughout our history.



6. As of our Founding, the views memorialized in the documents represented classical liberalism, with the individual at the center, rather than the government. In Thoreau’s On the duty of Civil Disobedience, he states: “ There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all of its own power and authority are derived.”

Viewing government’s function as the protection the citizen’s life and liberty, for the individual’s private pursuit of happiness. This form of liberalism is called conservatism today.




7. This remained as the center of the Democrat Party’s spirit until Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal liberalism. FDR saw the emergence of the modern industrial economy as requiring new health and safety laws, and new governmental powers to produce the ‘correct’ societal allocation of wealth, opportunity and security. Power shifted from the individual to the collective, and this is called Liberalism today.



8. As government grew to accommodate the new powers and obligations it assumed, the numbers and employees grew as well. “The New Deal, the modern state it created, and the class of people for whom that state provided employment led to the third liberalism, that of the 1960s and beyond. This ‘managerial liberalism’ celebrates the role of intellectuals and other policy elites in rationalizing society from above, wielding the federal government and the ‘science’ of public administration, meaning bureaucracy.”
George Will, “The Conservative Sensibility,” p.33



And far too many formerly independent Americans have agreed to allow themselves to be 'managed' by government bureaucrats.
We'll soon see if this is the majority.
 
9. The promise of Progressivism, Modern Liberalism, is security and material wealth from cradle to grave. Perhaps you’ve heard it put this way: “A Worker’s Paradise.”

From it’s origin, the promise has always gone unfulfilled.

“If the French Revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century.” French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror





10. What do you believe?

Do you believe in the Founder’s America, based on individualism, free markets, and limited constitutional government, on an immutable human nature….or Rousseau’s totalist government that can marginalize, silence, even kill any Americans that do not get with the program, can change man’s self-centric character, that promises to master the business cycles, and, as Tocqueville wrote “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.”


“Culture is a stubborn opponent. The Soviet Union attempted to create the New Soviet Man with gulags, psychiatric hospitals, and firing squads for seventy years and succeeded only in producing a more corrupt culture.”
Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 198
 
11. The views from the French Revolution rose in American Progressives:

“…Progressive journalist Walter Lippmann wrote in 1914, “We can no longer treat life as something that has trickled down to us. We have to deal with it deliberately, devise its social organization, alter its tools, formulate its method, educate and control it. In endless ways we put intention where custom has reigned. We break up routines, make decisions, choose our ends, select means,” which we can do because “the great triumph of modern psychology is its growing capacity for penetrating to the desires that govern our thought.” The instrument of this process necessarily must be the federal government,…”
The Political Debate We Need to Have




12. “The Progressives, then, discarded the Founders’ vision of an eternally flawed human nature, and the Constitutional architecture that balanced and checked the tendency for people and factions to pursue their interests and maximize their power at the expense of others. Now a more powerful federal government––currently comprising over 500 agencies and offices, with 2.3 million employees costing $200 billion annually–– armed with new knowledge and backed by coercive federal power, will organize, regulate, and manage social and economic conditions to improve life and create a more just and equitable society.”
Ibid.



13. " Franklin Roosevelt had pictured a place where citizens were joined in a collective enterprise ... Reagan pictured a more individualistic America where everyone would flourish once freed from the shackles of the state, and so the watchwords became self-reliance and small government."
The Liberal Crackup
 

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