Below is my column in Fox.com on the rising rage in this election. This week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul added her voice to the rage and said that anyone voting for Trump is “anti American.” Despite such statements, I found a reason to be hopeful in a brief encounter on my way to New York for the election coverage.
Here is the column:
When President Joe Biden took the podium in his hometown of Scranton, Pa., to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris, many expected a return to the “self-professed unifier” Biden from the 2020 election, particularly after his recent comments calling tens of millions of Trump supporters “garbage.” If so, they were disappointed when it turned out to be the “take him behind the Gym” Biden. Speaking through clenched teeth, Biden seethed that he wanted to “smack [Trump] in the ass.” Even with the Harris campaign alarmed over his costly gaffes, Biden clearly could not resist the rage. He is not alone.
This entire election seems to be a type of political roid rage. In my book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss how rage rhetoric and rage politics have long been part of our history. Politicians will often intentionally trigger rage to rally voters not in support of their policies but in opposition to their opponents.
However, Biden’s seeming inability to keep his rage in check is a common feature of this rage politics. As I wrote in the book, “rage is liberating, even addictive. It allows us to say and do things that we would ordinarily avoid, even denounce in others.” It is also contagious. Across the country, people are yelling at neighbors, tearing down signs, and even assaulting each other. What they are unwilling to admit is that they enjoy the rage. They like it.
As someone who has written about rage rhetoric and covered presidential elections for over two decades for different networks, I should be accustomed to these scenes. I am not. From the scenes outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan to the scenes outside of political rallies in Virginia, I find the rage depressing and deflating.
However, in flying to New York this weekend to join the Fox election coverage, I had a moment of real hope. I was driven to the airport by a man who told me that he was just months from his citizenship and how he and his wife were so thankful to soon be U.S. citizens. He came from a Middle Eastern nation where he long admired the United States for its freedoms, particularly the freedom of speech. Indeed, in his home country, he constantly ran into trouble with his government and was warned by his imam that he had to stop acting “like an American” by speaking his mind.
He could not shut up, so he decided to become an American instead.
He then told me how confused he and his wife are by this election. They love the United States and cannot understand why people are so hateful and angry. “It is like they do not understand what they have here,” he noted.
Listening to him over the course of our ride, I started to feel something that I had not felt in a while: real hope.
Sometimes, our truest citizens are found among our newest converts. As I discuss in my book, the problem with our democracy is that most citizens grew up in a nation where basic rights like the freedom of speech are guaranteed. They have never known the absence of such rights. This man and his wife have. They were not born here. They had to escape their country at great peril and cost to become U.S. citizens. They chose us and what we stand for.
They follow other great Americans drawn to these shores by something unique about this country. One was Tom Paine. The man who was credited with rallying a nation behind a revolution only landed upon these shores two years before the Declaration of Independence. His rocketing to fame with the publication of Common Sense enraged some, like John Adams, who viewed him as an unkempt, unknown rabble-rouser.
Yet, it was precisely Paine’s immigration that gave his words such clarity and power. He saw this emerging nation as unique for all of humanity, a nation where citizens could live free without the calcified social, economic, and political limits of the Old World. His voice resonated with this nation because it was so genuine and authentic.
I heard that same voice on my way to the airport. Sometimes, it takes the newest among us to remind us who we are to not only the rest of the world but also to each other.
I do not know what is coming out of that gate on election night. I have been there before. However, half of this country is going to be very, very upset either way this goes. What we need to struggle to remember is that this election does not define us. The rage does not define us. We defined ourselves almost 250 years ago and do so every day that new citizens like my new friend come to these shores. There is hope in who we are . . . even if we forget sometimes.
Brutal takedown in New Hampshire Congressional debate by Republican Chinese immigrant Lily Tang-Williams of Democrat Maggie Goodlander, wife of Jake Sullivan, U.S. National Security Advisor
Fantastic, thank you.
Youre welcome. There is a much longer highlights video on youtube but posted by a Chinese youtube account with Chinese characters describing the video. Could not find it earlier but comments in English and Chinese. its awesome
I went to my wealthy doctor’s office yesterday, and that wealthy guy was working his wealthy doctor’s butt off!
Unskilled, democrat, sick, lame, and lazy union members quit their jobs, violate the law, trespass, vandalize, and threaten private-property enterprise owners and the public for unmerited and undeserved raises.
Communists, aka democrats, are lying sick and twisted people.
Strange bedfellows.
“BLM Leader Announces He’s Voting for Donald Trump — Warns That a Kamala Harris Victory ‘Would Be a Disaster for This Country’”
— by Jim Hᴏft Nov. 5, 2024 8:15 am
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/blm-leader-announces-hes-voting-donald-trump-warns/
When the Marxists join your side…
“Immigrant Song”
Ayyy! Ayyy!
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde, sing and cry
Valhalla, I am coming
On we sweep with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore
Ayyy! Ayyy!
We come from the land of the ice and snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
How soft your fields so green
Can whisper tales of gore
Of how we calmed the tides of war
We are your overlords
On we sweep with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore
So now you’d better stop
And rebuild all your ruins
For peace and trust can win the day
Despite of all your losing
(Led Zeppelin III)
Watch out where the huskies go,
And please don’t eat that yellow snow…
It can’t happen here
It can’t happen here
I’m telling you, my dear
That it can’t happen here
Because I been checkin’ it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times
But I’m telling you
It can’t happen here
Oh darling, it’s important that you believe me
(Bop bop bop bop)
That it can’t happen here
Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere
in Kansas,
(Kansas, Kansas, Kansas, Kansas,)
(Kansas, Kansas, do-do-dun to-to
Kansas, Kansas, la la la)
(Kansas, Kansas, do-do-dun to-to
Kansas, Kansas)
Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota,
(Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi
Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi)
(Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota,
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma Mama Minnesota,
Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota,
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma Mama Minnesota)
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in Washington, D.C.
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
(AC/DC do-do-do-dun, AC/DC
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma, AC/DC)
But it can’t happen here…
Spend some time as an ex-pat in even a Westernized nation and you’ll come away with a greater appreciation of our constitutional republic, our nation of law, and the prosperity it has produced.
Is it ever really ‘half the country this, half the country that’?
How many don’t care, or see through it all, or choose to not vote?
How many vote but hold their noses while doing so?
* Yes, because the reality is business, engineering, and many other outstrips government by light-years. There’s very little talent in government if any at all. Look at the congress and those running for offices State and Federal.
Ah, but let’s not speak of those things today as people vote for the talentless mediocrity to write laws, interpret laws for the talented.
Government needs a weed whacked taken to it.
“There’s very little talent in government if any at all.”
There are misguided people with talent who do enter government employment, but they either don’t stay long, thwarted at every turn by parasitic bureaucratic parasites thwarting their every initiative, and stealing credit for any accomplishments they actually manage to pull off, or they get co-opted into becoming parasites themselves.
“Government needs a weed whacked taken to it.”
More like a flamethrower.
I agree, as that driver pointed out, it seems people here don’t realize what they have. The message from this election cycle seems to be that there are frightening amounts of people here ready go all in on switching in a more authoritarian government. Some think it wouldn’t affect them personally because they’d be on the right side of it and the penalties would be directed to ‘the other’. Some are down for an actual holocaust directed at the other…
And Jon, you’ve worked really hard at inflaming those groups. So, in that respect, your work has been successful. Pat yourself on the back…, I guess.
Vicious.
Yours is a story with potential hope, but, demographically; the welfare system, the propaganda media, and open borders has destroyed that hope into a dream at this point.
“Open borders” is a Republican lie. Biden is enforcing immigration laws on par with previous administrations, and in some areas even more.
And yet we have a immigration crisis on the southern border. ICE and border patrol all say the Biden admin is preventing them from doing their jobs.
Really? Stay in Mexico much? You’re a liar and not a very good one.
seek sound mental healthcare…there is a cure for advanced TDS but it is painful when it has reached this point
there are treatments for this advanced form of TDS but they are painful, but necessary to save what is left of your gray matter
I have known a few of these immigrants also, some of whom came from western Europe because they valued freedom unfettered even by the nanny states there. I have to say that one I knew returned to her native Bulgaria a few years ago because she’d become alarmed by trends and rhetoric she’d known under the old communist system. Now if you want to see someone who appreciates this country still after being here 36 years, try to find the interview of Lily Tang Williams, or maybe the debate she had with her entitled, elitist Democratic party rival for the 2nd district in New Hampshire. It’s pretty revealing.
* I was in Washington State one day and ordered a taxi. The driver was a new immigrant with a heavy accent. He was so happy, helpful, energetic , talkative as a driver and he drove the taxi wildly at great speeds as I white knuckled it in the back seat. I said at some point could he slow down a little. . He waved one arm above his head and with a big smile said, oh that’s how we drive in America!
GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
God bless Donlad J. Trump!
I Second that!
I Totally agree!
I agree!
Jonathan,
I’m happy you had this conversation with the soon to be US citizen. It reminded me of my years in long term care before I retired. One of my favorite acts as Executive Director was to write a personal note to an employee when they became a citizen. I congratulated them, I welcomed them, and I thanked them for joining Americans’ pursuit of Life Liberty and Happiness. Be they African, Caribbean, Asian, Hispanic or European, I could see smiles on their faces that glowed with both pride and a sense of opportunity. By experience they knew they were some place different. And like my several friends, acquaintances, and occasional taxi driver with Eastern European heritage, they know just what “different” is. Too many of us may not.
Keith
Kathy Hochoke is an incompetent buffoon who only became Governor NY by riding Andrew Cuomo’s coat tails into office after his naked totalitarian COVID manipulations (along with his sexual improprieties) forced him to resign. She is just as much a mindless mouthpiece for the Wokist Soros-led Marxist agenda as is Biden or Harris.
Surprised me because Hochul threw Cuomo under the bus in very similar fashion, or just as, Cuomo had thrown David Paterson under the bus. Can you imagine, a Democrat party official, a New Yorker, attacking a cohort that is both blind and black? And, as Hochul proves, “no honor among thieves.”
“just as, Cuomo had thrown David Paterson under the bus”
I don’t know that very much effort was required to get rid of Paterson. Andrew’s daddy Mario (a total POS who was governor when I lived in NYS) retained massive power, and had dirt on pretty much everyone, in the state Democratic Party after his arrogant reign was ended.
Yet she gets elected thanks to that cesspool that is NYC. As a resident of upstate NY; we detest that the parasites of NYC determine the future of the entire state. Until we clear out the city, there is no hope for NY State. The prog/left have won the demographics war.
Enough
Time for Republicans to STOP turning the CHEECK…and JAIL 1000’s of criminal Democrats
and TAKE AWAY THEIR MONEY!
End ALL Federal Aid and loan backing to cities, states, non-profits and colleges
Ban public union or at least ban public unions from politics….they basically bribe democrats
BTW…Biden GAVE $36 Billion to Private Unions…because their PENSION WAS BROKE from giving away too much Money!
Anyone involved in helping illegals with taxpayer money…should go to jail for TREASON!
No more CHEEK Turning! TAKE AWAY THE FASCIST Democrats Money and Power!
I am sure the irony is lost on you.
in other News Fascist Democrats are going to Sentence Trump for 26 Felons they MADE up illegally….judges by criminal judges, setup by a Criminal AG and DA!
I want EVERY SINGLE person involved in the FASCIST Democrat Persecution of Trump JAILED!
Another poster who does not see the irony.
Sammy, in the world of “truth isn’t truth” and “alternative reality” in the world of Trump supporter’s, irony is not a word they look up or understand.
Fishstick, in leftist “alternative reality” world, there are 97 different sexes, leftist use pronouns like ze/xi/yur. They think biological men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. They think pornography in elementary libraries is perfectly fine.
The “real” irony is you are trying to lecture us about “reality” when you clearly live in your own. Which of the 97 different sexes did you identify this morning? Or are you a Fishstick?
When it comes to why some of us are Republicans and some of us are Democrats, like our religions a lot of it has to do with our parents and how we were raised. If your parents were Methodist, it’s likely that you are a Methodist; if your parents were Jewish, it’s likely that you are Jewish, etc. And so, it is with politics. Yes, of course, some convert, perhaps a sizable percentage and some lose their faith just as some choose not to vote. As Turley found in his recent trip to NYC, people who come to the U.S. from abroad are at first puzzled by our politics. The good news is that they arrive here with no intergenerational affiliations with political parties and are free to choose which party they think might represent their interests better. The result, not surprisingly, is that many immigrants who become citizens choose the Republican party because it aligns with their conservative values.
Immigrants see bits and pieces of the governments that they left in the Democrat party and that frightens them. They came here to be free, safe, prosperous, and able to provide for themselves and their families. Many waited many years for their dream and resent seeing Democrats give away what they sacrificed so much for. In short, the Democrats have misread the American public and, as a result, have made lots of mistakes, some of which we no doubt will hear a lot about in the coming days and weeks. A big mistake was thinking that open borders would result in immigrants choosing to be Democrats as a form of payback for the favor. Not so. These people come here with no party affiliation and as they acclimate to our society and begin to understand the choices before them, they likely will choose conservative policies over those they fled from. I hope Trump understands this and deports the criminals first and then implement measures to convince states to work with ICE and report immigrant crimes as they occur so that gang members and other illegal alien sociopaths can be quickly deported.
if your parents were Jewish, or even just your mother, then you ARE Jewish, regardless of what you believe. That is just how it works, and nothing you do can change it.
Racist?
What, pray tell, is racist about what Milhouse wrote? It is a fact. If your mother is Jewish, you are Jewish. You can be a Catholic if you want to convert, but why do you think those whose maternal great-great-grandmothers were Jewish “tainted” their blood under Hitler’s National Socialist tyrannical regime? It’s not racist. It is a fact.
Millhouse: Yes, of course, you are correct that Jewish law (Halachah) dictates that born of a Jewish mother one remains forever Jewish. It was probably a poor example of what I was trying to analogize. Yet, there are many Jews who relinquish their faith or adopt some other faith and believe themselves to no longer be adherents of Judaism. The point I was making is that most of us choose our politics based on the politics of our parents. We do the same when it comes to religion. And yes, we can choose to convert or drop our religion entirely just as we can choose to ignore politics entirely. In the past, many Jews, including immigrant Jews, seemed to gravitate to liberal policies as Americans but that, too, seems to be changing as they see the Republican party better suited to serve their interests. In a democratic society, the selection of party affiliation based on one’s personal self-interest is fine and preferable to simply being this or that because one’s parents were this or that. That was my point. Sorry if I confused you.
Milhouse posted: if your parents were Jewish, or even just your mother, then you ARE Jewish, regardless of what you believe. That is just how it works, and nothing you do can change it.
My mother was Presbyterian, so then I AM Presbyterian, regardless of what I believe?
My father was Protestant on the other hand, so does that mean I AM Protestant, regardless of what I believe (or what my mother believed)?
As I was raised between the two churches and am now agnostic, I find this formula for what I am so confusing.
It’s even more confusing when one set of grandparents had immigrated from Scotland and the other set of grandparents had immigrated from Ireland. I’ve never set foot in either country – does my ethnic background make me what I am just like those with Jewish parentage?
So confusing…
OAD: Halacha Law that Millhouse and I were discussing does not pertain to anyone outside the Jewish faith so you have nothing to worry about. Two centuries ago, De Tocqueville, French writer and political analyst, answered your question in a manner of speaking. After a trip to America where he visited many large and small towns, he wrote his famous book, Democracy in America, in which he marveled at how well we all got along with our novel form of self-government. He said people could come from anywhere in the world, settle in the U.S., and call themselves and be known by others as American. By contrast, a French person, no matter where he travelled or settled, would always be a Frenchman. He might travel to and live in Japan, for example, but he never would be Japanese or claim to be Japanese.
jjc posted: Immigrants see bits and pieces of the governments that they left in the Democrat party and that frightens them… A big mistake was thinking that open borders would result in immigrants choosing to be Democrats as a form of payback for the favor. Not so. These people come here with no party affiliation and as they acclimate to our society and begin to understand the choices before them, they likely will choose conservative policies over those they fled from.
I assume that you are using the word “immigrants” in it’s proper sense. Those who came here lawfully by applying for entry, going through the years that process takes to work through, and then entered America with permanent resident visa in hand.
As Ronald Reagan realized to his sorrow after believing the lies of Democrats that they would secure the border if he granted amnesty to criminal Illegal Aliens, once the former Illegal Aliens had citizenship over 70% of them promptly became loyal Democrat voters to give thanks to Ted Kennedy and the rest of the Democrats who made it possible.
Every Illegal Alien in this country is a kick in the face of every legal immigrant awaiting naturalization and the now American citizens who came here as legal immigrants.
I spoke recently with a relatively wealthy European couple who wanted to get their green cards and open up a business in the United States. Nearly $50K later in lawyers fees and years waiting, they finally got it. This is what annoys so many of us whose ancestors struggled to immigrate here and those who chose to come here the legal way so they could make a contribution to the country.
Mary: Don’t feel bad. Those immigrants that arrived at Ellis Island back in the old days were expected to pay their own way. Back then, you had to have a sponsor who would foot the bill if you walked it. And yes, those immigration lawyers are one step (literally) away from the infamous “slip and fall” guys but at least they provide services that result in people getting their green cards. Having lived abroad myself I can attest to the difficulty in understanding and complying with laws of which I had no familiarity whatsoever. Thankfully, some professionals I worked with did understand the laws and that made life a lot easier for me. As for the cost, $50 grand is a big number but at least they didn’t have to pay much, if anything, for their resident visa. An American couple looking to emigrate to New Zealand, for example, would be charged almost as much in resident visa costs paid to the government of NZ (not including legal fees, if any, paid to private attorney). There was a time, many years ago, when some countries actually paid people to settle and open businesses. Those days are gone forever, I’m afraid.
Old Airborne Dog: Thank you for your comment. Let’s assume that you are correct about Reagan and how he was duped on amnesty. That was many decades ago when the Democrat party was a very different party. Imagine Trump and Nancy Pelosi stopping at a pub in Boston on St. Paddy’s Say to have a mug of beer! Back then, Tip O’Neill may have represented his party and differed with the Gipper on some policies but both were solid Americans who would never have agreed to the obscene and anti-American policies of the Biden-Harris group. The immigrants back then, illegal or legal, probably saw little difference between the parties and opted for the Democrat Party out of loyalty for that party having met their self-interests. They had a choice between good and better whereas today’s immigrants – legal or illegal – do not have that flexibility but must choose between good and evil. Hopefully, most will choose correctly.
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I like the post and have seen many of these same people through the years. They come and do often renew the dream and the hope of this country. There are just too many people who have been born here who totally miss the whole essence of why we have this nation. It was easy to remember up until we ceased teaching the story. The story of course changes as each wave comes in and some succeed and others do not.
When I was 6 months old in 1949 my family were living on an Army Base in Yokohama Japan. I don’t remember it but I have all the pictures my father shot of us growing and playing. Unfortunately the Korean War occurred and we were sent to the states and my father went to Korea. When my mother died about 6 years ago, as we made our way through her papers, we came upon a letter written to her, in very stilted English, from a Japanese Gardener who she had helped get a visa and permit to emigrate to the US and he was thanking her for all her help in vouching for him as he worked around the army base in Yokohama. It was tear jerking to read. My mother had an 11th grade education and up until that time had lived most of her life in South Georgia and North Florida but she loved the people of Japan and the country even though it was still devastated just 4 years after WW2. And she was happy to help.
I also remember returning to the US in 12/1956 after being away for 3 years in Europe at another army base. Yes, we got to see beautiful things that were still present in Europe but returning to the US (Home) in 1956 was magical and I never forgot. And every time I left the country and came back I got the same magical feeling even now.
My mother had an 11th grade education and up until that time had lived most of her life in South Georgia and North Florida but she loved the people of Japan and the country even though it was still devastated just 4 years after WW2. And she was happy to help.
Beautiful story. Catholics this time of year pray for the souls of our loved ones and members of our parish. She will be mentioned in my prayers this Sunday at Mass
My mother-in-law is similar to your deceased mother. She is in her 80s, lives in N Florida, has family in S Georgia, never finished high school, and talks with a thick Southern drawl that is difficult for me to understand. At first she did not know what to do about having a Catholic, Cuban son-in-law, until she got to know me. When I met her she was obese, pre-diabetic, on SSRIs, and had abandoned her christian church.
Today she visits the dying, helps immigrants (Hispanics), visits her local gym regularly and goes on long walks where former Railroad tracks existed now turned into joggers trails – lost 35 pounds after we discussed nutrition, exercise and pre-diabetes. She leads a bible study at a community center and a leader in her local church. She just needed a little encouragement.
The elderly like your mother’s memory and my in-law are a treasure for us. they are sources of wisdom, flames of godliness and give us reasons to hope. If only most Americans treasured them instead of discarding them.
So we pray…..
Immigrants make the most patriotic Americans
Estovir posted: Immigrants make the most patriotic Americans
Here, here!
There’s no way to prove that, but I certainly agree that actual immigrants who came here legally to build their lives as they became naturalized Americans as a demographic are far better than the greater demographic that won the lottery of life by simply being born American. They know the life they came from in comparison to what they now have. The difference it has made in their lives is glaringly obvious. They have their culls, just as native born Americans have far more culls within their ranks fouling the DNA pool.
Far too many of our Born In America class are whining crybabies who demand the taxpayers give them the life they want, because they didn’t get their fair share. They don’t appreciate what they have by accident of birth, and whatever the taxpayer gives them via the government will never be enough. Legal immigrants in comparison know the gift they have.
Emphasis on the word “legal.” I’ve spoken with Hispanic friends who worked hard, saved up money and made applications for green cards who now feel betrayed by the open borders.
Thank you, Jonathan. Reading your column was so refreshing, having just read the following a few minutes before I read your hopeful words:
Harris running mate Democratic Gov. Tim Walz appointed a Critical Race Theorist as a top education official in Minnesota. “The first tenet of Critical Race Theory is that the United States is irreversibly racist,” Brian Lozenski has said. “It must be overthrown.” Lozenski has also said: “You can’t be a Critical Race Theorist and be pro-U.S.”
Go out and vote everyone who hasn’t yet voted. This should be a day of celebration and ope!
Inspiring story professor.
I leave shortly to vote!
And done!
Trump/Vance!
Judge Judy!
Good post. This new legal immigrant’s perspective is available to anyone of us. First and foremost, we must believe we have rights that do not come from government. Then we need to agree that the primary purpose for government is to secure those rights. Only then can we begin to form a reasonable opinion as to who should lead this country.
Olly,
I’ve been studying more and more of the early 1900’s and the “Progressive” movement. Teddy really screwed things up for us all in 1912 by splitting the vote and allowing Wilson in. I’m not sure how Wilson even took the oath when inaugurated being he didn’t believe in separation of powers or the two most important documents in our history.
In a way, the more I study about this, the more depressing it is.
“First and foremost, we must believe we have rights that do not come from government.”
I recently argued this with a liberal friend. He did not believe there are any inalienable rights since they can be taken away. I tried to tell him 2+2=4 even if our govt. tells us it equals 5 just like our rights exist even if taken away. He refused to accept rights are inalienable. This is what we are up against.
There are actually three unalienable rights, and only three unalienable rights, that we are endowed with, which can be logically proven. “Liberty” of course is somewhat fleeting… liberty only ’till we meet our mothers. That said, Jefferson possessed what was probably the greatest philosophical mind of the 18th century, very possibly, the greatest in the history of the Western world. Try telling that to a philosophy major who’s never for a moment considered American history.
Jefferson stole that part of the declaration from Locke
And the correct language is life liberty and property
You can not actually prove rights
But you can prove that those rights must exist if man has free will
And that without free will everything is $hit
He refused to accept rights are inalienable.
Good comment Jim.
I didn’t begin studying US Civics until I was 47. I became focused almost immediately on unalienable rights. If the framers believed they were central to everything, then it made sense to understand what they are. My study included communicating with authors, professors and lawyers.
The most common misunderstanding I’ve seen is believing unalienable, or inalienable = uninfringeable. Of course these rights can be taken away, but not legitimately. Done this way, we lose a bit of our identity as humans. When we enter civil society, we empower government by legitimately “disabling” a small percentage of these rights. Disabling means we retain full ownership, but transfer a percentage of conditional control.
One thing I’ve never been able to understand is why anyone would argue in defense of not having these rights. It would be no different than a slave defending the authority of the master.
* Your letter, Olly, should be read again!
Beautifully said
Thank you. If I have anything wrong, I am willing to learn.
Trump, there is no other real choice. The Democrats have veered so far left it’s a clown show. Their arrogance and corruption on full display. Figure heads of nothing, void of substance, a puff of smoke distraction. Trump, there is no other real choice.
a clown show with DEADLY consequence…1000’s of Americans murdered, raped, attacked, stolen from…by Illegals and Democrat Released Criminals!