As an American, I am downright pissed-off with our Federal Government. The corruption, the lies, the epic FAILS, the taxation, the debt... the list goes on and on.
Why do we allow it to be? What is wrong with us? Have we lost our identity as a nation of free people?
How did it come to this?
Tonight, for better or for worse, I am here to remind you what it is to be an American.
Every so often, I feel the need to read one of the greatest things ever written in human history. Let me share it with you. Please, take the two minutes and actually READ IT. I don't care if you just read it yesterday, just do it.
The Declaration of Independence.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Let's have a discussion. I DARE you. Let's discuss just how we could have another American Revolution. What is standing in our way?
Let me add my two cents here to get things moving...
- State governments could still run things during a revolution.
- 1% of the population (about 3 million) is all it would take.
And please, if all you have to offer is criticism of this concept, then I dare say you are unpatriotic. The Declaration of Independence tells us to have a revolution. And this is, after all, the founding document on which this country was built. So yes, arguing against it makes you unpatriotic.
Indeed, Revolution is as American as it gets.