MAGA MAN
Let's go Brandon!
You like income redistribution, right?
The Declaration of Independence
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You like income redistribution, right?
MAGA MAN
Let's go Brandon!
How many on your enemies list now?
The same as before, stalker boy. Change any more of my posts lately?
MAGA MAN
Let's go Brandon!
Only when I need to clarify them.
MAGA MAN
Let's go Brandon!
Do you reply to stalkers' every post? LOL!
Lincoln clearly stated that that they did not mean to say that all were equal at that time or that they meant to make them so. It would ONLY have been an obvious untruth if that was their intent, but since it was not. I don't know how you read that any other way. It must require some extreme intellectual dishonesty or myopia to get from what you have.
Jefferson certainly had some moral inconsistencies, but he was far from stupid, unaware of those inconsistencies or the unjust circumstances that many then lived under.
Yep, Jefferson just failed to mention intent or aspirations or goals, didn't he?
I read it as the words are layed out. You and old Abe are making the inferences.
No, you are not reading the words as they are laid out. Nowhere in the text does it say that all men are then recognized as equals in the eyes of the law. To claim that was what they had asserted is just dishonest or stupid. Why would Jefferson have put this in the first draft if he was asserting the nonsense you put into his text?
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where Men should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he has obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed again the Liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
From a guy who had he lived then, with the same proclivities, would have made a good Loyalist.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
Socialism is just another word ... for monarchy.
Posts like this are what gives "Conservative" the reputation of being just another word for....dumbhead.
Ain't that the truth.
Bigdog
Harris - make America a 3rd world shithole
I recount the following from memory over a half century old, and paraphrase.
In grammar school my public school teacher introduced us to TJ/DOI, explaining that it's some of the most soaring political rhetoric in U.S. history.
For decades afterward I accepted the notion.
BUT !!
On closer look I've grown to believe Jefferson somewhat phoned it in.
I'd have liked to believe between the three of them, they could have done better.
In grammar school my public school teacher introduced us to TJ/DOI, explaining that it's some of the most soaring political rhetoric in U.S. history.
For decades afterward I accepted the notion.
BUT !!
On closer look I've grown to believe Jefferson somewhat phoned it in.
So Jefferson applied the somewhat troll-like trick (that in JPP exchange wouldn't fool most posters here) of calling his assertions "truths". This simple rhetorical flourish spared Jefferson the inconvenience of having to explain or justify. Jefferson declared them "truths", feebly reinforced it with the "self-evident" flourish, and moved on.
I'd have liked to believe between the three of them, they could have done better.
Give us your definition of Socialism.
I don't have a definition. But the definition is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned by the government, unlike, for example, the economic system in the U.S. supported by Republicans and Democrats alike.
The Declaration is not law. Never was. Never will be. Never intended to be.
The text says NOTHING about goals or aspirations. Note the present tense "are". "all men are created equal"..."are endowed by their Creator"..."among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
That passage refers to King George and more of his transgressions. Nothing about aspirations of equality. In fact, I see no mention of equality in that text.
I'm afraid you are inserting notions into the text of the Declaration, not me. I'm merely saying, just as Lincoln did, that it was an "obvious untruth" about people having the right of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". It was an "obvious untruth" then and is an "obvious untruth" today.
Thus the name. I've never heard anyone call it The Law of Independence.
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It may not be enforceable law.
That doesn't mean it's not a right. And Jefferson was explicitly clear about that. Such rights don't come from government. Such rights come from our Creator (please note the cap). And that government's role is merely to secure these rights.
Wow...everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...and those rights came from my mother and father.
Like I said...WOW.
They would have been so proud.
Yes, "are" and still that clearly does not suggest that all then enjoyed equality in the eyes of the law.
This is pointless. You don't have the intellectual honesty to acknowledge the obvious intent of the words and you dishonestly suggest that they meant something that other statements within the document clearly make impossible. Your reading of it is ignorant and petulant nonsense.