<i><blockquote> Imagine a ruthless country where peaceful citizens who fearlessly defend their heritage, their families and their faith can wake up in the morning and find themselves cut off from their entire life savings with no explanation and no recourse. That country is not Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela or Iran. That country is America in 2021.</blockquote></i>
I’m afraid I have to take strong issue with that, that country is <b>not</b> America in 2021 or in any other year. If one is to take the founding documents seriously, then people who reject the nation’s central founding principle: <i><blockquote>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, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.</blockquote></i>, then the American people have been bequeathed by the founders with the privilege–no, duty–to remonstrate against such usurpations committed by those rejecting that central founding principle, and should their petitions and pleadings are met with new injuries, they they are to “hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.”
In other words, the people representing Twitter, the powers that be in Big Government and Big Business, Wall Street, social justice radicals, deep-state bureaucrats, financial entities (ranging from Chase and Barclays to Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Venmo, Patreon, Stripe and Coinbase), Joe Biden and Operation Choke Point should not be regarded as part of this country in any way, shape or form. They should be regarded as foreigners, and not ones we are at peace with. As the main author of the Declaration put it in his 1800 inaugural, we are not divided today by political differences like Federalists vs. Democrat-Republicans, “called by different names brethren of the same principle,” but rather instead of mere differences in opinion the division is based on a “difference in principle”. I.e., like the difference in principle between a Patriot AKA Whig vs. a Loyalist AKA Tory. Like the difference in principle of later generations as Union vs. Confederate. And certainly the difference from the 20th Century totalitarians who warred on the American creed.
This is not politics but warfare. And let us not repeat the 19th century blunder of fighting a civil war, which is really a war among brothers. The Declaration does not stutter on this point, people can remain brethren only if they accept in common “certain inalienable rights”–and if they show enmity toward them instead, then enemies domestic have to be regarded and treated on the very same basis as enemies abroad.
Commentary for Disqus
29 Tuesday Jun 2021
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