A thought for the Fourth
Happy Fourth of July! I’m going to have dinner at the home of some friends, and then watch fireworks at the park tonight. How’s that for tradition?
And speaking of traditions—it occurs to me that that are two kinds of people in the world, those who value liberty very highly and those who don’t. America was founded by the first kind; I hope they still vastly outnumber the second.
The truth is, it was never a vast majority, or even a majority. As I have it, only 1/3 of Americans wanted freedom. The rest were independents and Democrats. Really really.
Happy Independence Day to you and all your readers!
Sadly, the country is split with those who value liberty being slightly less than those that don’t.
Neo, I cherish your web site. Easy on the bombast. You are cut a pass for the day.
Have a good time Neo.
Happy 4th.
The incoming majority has no use for liberty….
Doom wrote “The truth is, it was never a vast majority, or even a majority. As I have it, only 1/3 of Americans wanted freedom. ”
If you are referring to the revolution that whole “one third support the rebellion, one third oppose and one third don’t care”; that comes from a letter someone wrote early in the struggle. A more accurate measure is enlistments; patriot enlistments outnumbered Tory nine to one.
We will find out this November how well liberty is still valued in the US.
Some of us value liberty. Others value a handout and don’t care if they have to sacrifice their liberty to get it. Somehow, they equate this to “getting over on the Man”. Except that the Man now calls the shots.
Democrats value liberty. They just define it in a rather odd way. As in having liberty with the spoils they themselves haven’t earned.
There are some people whose idea of liberty extends no further than “sex & drugs & rock’n’roll”.
You are right rickl, and we all know which candidate they voted for in 2008.
I have always liked Robert Benchley’s analysis of the two kinds of people in the world: “There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t.”