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Declaration Disclaimer: How Fast Is Too Fast to Change?
The document Americans celebrate today starts with a cautionary note:
“Prudence, indeed,” warns the Declaration of Independence, “will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
This serves well as a preamble to a ringing statement of our nation’s right to free itself from British oppression, but a slight turn of the kaleidoscope can reveal that warning’s meaning for our national life today, both domestically and abroad.
After voting for Change less than three years ago, under pressure of economic and terrorist anxiety, Americans are now experiencing transformation at a rapid rate of “the forms to which they are accustomed” in both governing themselves and intervening in the affairs of other nations.
In Washington, the Tea Party shadow government has Congress and the White House locked in paralysis over its agenda…
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5 Responses to “Declaration Disclaimer: How Fast Is Too Fast to Change?”
Uh, what?
We have decades of:
Increasing debt regardless of war or peace.
Decreasing governmental accountability in the courts.
Increasing special interest influence.
Decreasing transparency.
Increasingly hateful discourse.
Decreasingly meaningful discourse.
Increasing control by the financial sector.
Decreasing privacy and other rights.
And the Tea Party is what scares you?
ProfElwood
It’s not just the Tea Party. They are a splinter group used by politicians to drive a conservative social agenda in the same way that the green party political factions is used to drive economic changes favorable to a elect group of capitalists. Neither faction’s ideology is what is important to those who rule, their fervency is enough to be manipulated for someone’s profit.
The Tea Party says cut taxes but don’t touch my SS, and the Green’s want to sell carbon to a world wide market that can choose to ignore that structure; China is a good example of country outside the meme.
All your points listed are real and dangerous, but understand, those that rule will never allow the changes to those listed problems. They would never give up their advantage.
The factions are the shiny objects flashed to the crowd to keep them from seeing where the problem really lies.
Thank you Hemmann.
It’s this kind of miss-the-forest blaming that bugs me.
I’ve had some pretty good discussions with Greens and staunch conservatives: there’s a lot of things that “extremists” can agree on (particularly in the area of corporate welfare) that congress wouldn’t allow.
“Change” for truly light[weight!] and transient causes was offered in 2008. [snicker] Then the public was given not what they had voted for — and the public (hardly just the Tea Party) repudiated it in 2010.
But some, who probably were among the 2008 gullible, abhor the Tea Party and other popular rejection of left-excess in Washington.
Right on the money Robert. The two centuries plus of courage, sacrifice, brilliance and slogging away by the working class, all driven by some fairly common but respected (for the most part) values can be flushed down the drain a hell of a lot more quickly than people think. The rightwing politics of obstruction and disinformation are taking it’s toll at an alarming rate and the USA is falling behind as the progress leader in so many areas. It’s a lot easier to tear things down than it is to build them.