The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13 states independent 11 years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
In a 1787 letter to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson
Good on ya for the 'first hand history' lesson.
Wasn't anyone ever curious why any of the founding fathers' letters and personal writings were never made part of your actual history lessons? You'd have learned too much.
Good way to put it.
And by now, "education" has morphed into preventing the young from learning anything real at all -- instead force-feeding them Woke-ism, self-hatred, and a dozen other varieties of toxic anti-life, anti-freedom nonsense.
...I was very fortunate to be schooled by a lot of WWI and WWII vets...
Time to refresh the tree ...
...precisely....
Very true.
Right now we're all sort of sitting around the campfire, each of us angry to our core, wondering how this whole thing is going to kick off. Will it be the military? ...President Trump? ...one final, fatal overreach by the left-commies? We all know it's coming, we just don't know how or when.
Will it be the military?
...be very wary of what you wish for....
...the MIC is not a champion of civil liberties....
I'm not wishing for any such thing, just speculating on which one, of several scenarios, might end up happening. And a military intercession is definitely on the table. In fact, Q told us as much.
... In fact, Q told us as much....
...I rest my case....