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2019-07-04 
Salon Attacks The Declaration Of Independence
[DAILYWIRE] By JOSH HAMMER

The leftist ingrates at Salon have decided to "celebrate" Independence Day ‐ which is celebrated on July 4th for the sole reason that our beautiful republic's Declaration of Independence was ratified on that day in Philadelphia in 1776 ‐ today in a rather peculiar manner. In what can only be described as a dissemination of the most stereotypically woke of all stereotypically woke takes, the Salon dullards today tweeted: "Despite its positive impact on history, the #DeclarationOfIndependence was also a product of its time‐and bears some of the shortcomings of its era, including racism, sexism and prejudice against #NativeAmericans."

The accompanying piece, courtesy of an obscure Ph.D. named Matthew Rozsa, concludes that America's Founding Fathers "were fallible human beings, and some of their flaws had terrible consequences for people who were not fortunate enough to be born into privileged groups."

Here's the bad news: Human beings are fallible. We all come with flaws. Sometimes our feet and/or our pits stink. We pass gas at least a dozen times a day. We poop. We have the occasional unseemly thought.

We're not angels. Except for most children under ten, we're not even angelic.

Bravery isn't foolishly rushing into a burning building or gunfire or a sinking ship. It's overcoming the natural fear that such acts induce to perform the act.

Likewise, greatness involves overcoming our natural faults, the ones we all have, to achieve something that's of value to the nation, even to future generations. Ben Franklin used to chase women. Alexander Hamilton cheated on his wife and was accused of embezzling government money. John Hancock was arrested for smuggling and had his ship impounded.

Thomas Jefferson used to sleep with Sally Hemings. It's my guess that Sally came to his bed willingly enough; not all women are Xanthippe. Most intelligent women, and I'm assuming she was, are drawn to greatness, even greatness with smelly feet or occasional gas or the occasional racing stripe in his underwear.

Which means that our nation was founded by human beings. Tell us something we didn't know. They were human beings who managed to overcome their individual faults to try and craft a system that balanced individual liberty with the minimal requirements of government, to take thirteen independent states--remember Confederation came before federation--and mold them into one. The fact that we've lasted 250 years is remarkable. Very few other nations have such a record. Other than Britain, no other pops to mind.

I'd call that something to be proud of.
Posted by Fred 2019-07-04 14:11|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Democrats ruin America for everybody.

Worthless motherfuckers.
Posted by newc 2019-07-04 14:33||   2019-07-04 14:33|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd call that something to be proud of.

Truly. Well said, Fred.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-04 14:46||   2019-07-04 14:46|| Front Page Top

#3 “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”

― George Orwell
Posted by Iblis 2019-07-04 15:08||   2019-07-04 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Goddammit guys... whew ! The level of shit you can get away with in America....
Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-04 15:51||   2019-07-04 15:51|| Front Page Top

#5 When have they ever delivered perfection? Wouldn't the millions of refugees from bad be moving on to their established paradise?

Nothing will make the Left happy till they put the chains and shackles upon your body and mind. Time to appease is long past. You must choose the future and that of your posterity.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-07-04 16:20||   2019-07-04 16:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Its not about the flag, Betsy Ross, Jefferson, or the historic statues. It is a systematic process of tearing this nation down, on small thing at a time. Soros knows how to eat an elephant, on bite at a time. He is not worried if it takes ten or 20 years. Eventually everything American will be racist, evil, and wrong. There will be no need to overthrow this nation, we have lost god, our history, our national presence. We will collapse under our own education system teaching our kids their parents support slavery and torture. Folks, they are almost there. The brown shirts are here, our press and political fools are protecting them. Its only one presidential election or two away, Trump is just a minor setback. When we decide to fight back it will be too late... We are stuck on each event, we spin, cuss, and get angry, then we accept that baby its cold outside should be banned. We have lost sight of the strategic goal and they are currently wining the fight for the soul of America...
Posted by 49 Pan 2019-07-04 16:35||   2019-07-04 16:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Not too late. The problem is that when we fight back at this point on, there is no longer going to be mercy. This will be war to the knife and will end when the last leftist gets nailed to a handy tree.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-07-04 18:47||   2019-07-04 18:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Yep, no mercy.
Posted by Hupolet Bourbon1119 2019-07-04 19:52||   2019-07-04 19:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Salon - worth EXACTLY what you paid for it
Posted by Frank G 2019-07-04 19:52||   2019-07-04 19:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Independence Day Greetings from Bayern Munich!
Posted by European Conservative 2019-07-04 20:31||   2019-07-04 20:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Try Again
Posted by European Conservative 2019-07-04 20:32||   2019-07-04 20:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Danke, EC
Posted by Frank G 2019-07-04 20:38||   2019-07-04 20:38|| Front Page Top

#13 Thank you, European Conservative!
"How far that little candle doth throw its beams..."
Posted by Lex 2019-07-04 21:00||   2019-07-04 21:00|| Front Page Top

#14 So shines a good deed in a weary world.
Posted by European Conservative 2019-07-04 21:01||   2019-07-04 21:01|| Front Page Top

#15 Actually the original Shakespearian phrasing was "naughty world."
'Naughty' in the Elizabethan era meant wicked, evil, corrupt, nasty.
... = a lot like our own nasty era.
Posted by Lex 2019-07-04 21:04||   2019-07-04 21:04|| Front Page Top

#16 Ah yes you are right
Posted by European Conservative 2019-07-04 21:06||   2019-07-04 21:06|| Front Page Top

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