safe, no one can find haven in appeals to justice, as truth is separated from reality and not just a thumb is placed upon the scales of justice but the entire weight of the body politic. Specific instances are matters of public record, as are this tyrant’s whims that so often drive
policy and change as often as the wind. Not a leader of moral standing but a bully, he threatens the strength and viability of the nation and its people. Again, he must go.
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How Did This Come to Be?
But in creating the conditions in which he goes, it becomes necessary to understand how this tyrant came to be. He came to be because America has long been willing to look the other way if facts did not align with its desire for empire. She even created myths in support of an alternative narrative, and in doing so made the sacrifice of truth a norm.
Think again of America’s founding. Lest you forget: it was when designing a set of colonies that the Founders turned to the model of confederated tribes embraced by a group of native peoples, the Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) Confederacy, a fact that soon needed to be replaced by the myth that the Founders, all reasonable and reasoning men some of whom were skilled in law and ancient history, sat around and debated what might reasonably be done, creating in due course the concept of colonies out of whole cloth, a myth designed to replace what was an understanding that native peoples were reasoning and reasonable with the label they were simple “savages” so to ensure they would never be considered equal to if not superior to the Founders themselves. Lest you again forget: it was when fighting for the ideals and rights articulated in the Declaration of Independence – those of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – it would be not just
white men who were doing the fighting, but men and women of multiple races, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and moral training who came from both within the country and outside its borders to fight for the promise such universal truths held.
And other myths followed, forging an origin story that would survive across the centuries as America chased the dream of empire. There was the myth of the rugged individualist, who sailed across a dangerous ocean to escape religious persecution, who upon arriving carved out places within the vast wilderness where settlements could be supported by the more productive activities of farming and industry, and who fought against the savages not only to conquer them but make them “more civilized.” There was the myth of the scrappy colonialist, who, with limited resources and little training, brought an empire to its knees through wit, guerilla action, and some clever merchant financiers. There was the myth of the Founders who looked beyond their personal interests of holding “property” that included persons and land given by decree to craft a new form of government through a set of God-given and unalienable rights for all people, rights that in any reasonable world would stand against those men continuing to own other men as property or receiving their wealth through gifts given by decree. There was the myth of the
A tyrant rules over America, one who ignores historical origins and constitutional constraints as he solidifies his personal power and wealth while diminishing if not eliminating the unalienable rights granted to the very people whom he took an oath to protect. He is a man filled with hate and distain for others, who wishes to force his worldview on all no matter the cost, even if it means destroying the sacred rights accorded us. He needs to be removed from office, now.
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