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June 01, 2004

What Is America? « Social Issues »

Kerry's latest campaign slogan says something about "Let America Be America Again." I think.
Nick Berg's dad said something about America under President Bush not being the American he grew up in.

I've heard it often said that the miracle of the United States of America is an unprecented recognition of rights...

"Progressives" are advocating the expansion of rights as "progress", as if we should be on an inevitable quest to seek out new freedoms and grant/recognize them as soon as possible.

"America: It's a Free Country", right?

I submit that the basis of the experiment was not freedom. The miracle of the United Staes was not in the recognition/guarantee/granting of freedom, it was simply the recognition of the fallibility of humans, and a corresponding structure designed to prevent that fallibility from tyrannizing the citizens.

Stability, not freedom, was the goal. Freedom was always intended to be secondary to stability and power balance. Evidence? Well, originally, the only people whose freedom and rights were guaranteed were white land-owners. Freedoms and rights were expanded slowly over time only when enough people were convinced the expansion would not upset the stability or create imbalances in the power structure.

After a little over 200 years, we've finally gone off the wire, and the system is breaking down from groups of people who have learned to manipulate the system against the will of the majority.

Discuss.

Posted by Nathan at 10:38 AM | Comments (1)
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People are no longer being trained to be fit for freedom. The "mental infrastructure" of freedom is no longer being installed in the schools.
The rapid proliferation of faux "rights" will quickly overload the court/constitutional system, which was set up for a different type of government altogether, with a society populated by more responsible and self reliant people.

Posted by: Constantine at June 2, 2004 01:55 PM
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