By Ashley Herndon, contributing columnist
OCEANSIDE, Calif. | The United States is a paradox of freedom vs ill-liberal royalists, plantation capitalists, emperors, fascists, and theocratic zealots. The battle between the Pharisees and Sadducees is still at full tilt. How many more millions must die to gain personal liberty?
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We have fought minor skirmishes, shooting wars, and massive political battles to maintain our democratic experiment. Thus far we have kept it alive, however crippled it may have become. We are still defending those egalitarian principles every day.
There are people buying other people without a whim of conscience. Too many of them have never lifted a shovel or washed their own clothes or cooked their own meals. We unfortunately are still trying to teach, (though again are being censored) what freedom of speech and freedom of religion really mean.
This opponent is the same as all of the others, just better financed and more willing to lie and cheat. Narcissism has risen to the top. These are not differences in policy, but simple personal greed, with explosive results, it is time to:
Our two eternal preambles are still the guiding lights of democracy, world wide. Let’s remember them:
Declaration of Independence (1776): “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The Constitution: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Opposition, local or worldwide, can say and do all they want against them, but these two wordings are enshrined in history and are not to be defeated.
It matters not who and what comes against them. United we stand! The fights are sometimes furious: colonialism run rampant, the Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War 1861-1865, Re- and De-construction, Jim Crow rises and goes live, the gilded age of abusive industrialism, World War I, post-war financial abuse, rise of fascism, great depression, fascist World War II, nuclear age, communist Russia, China, Korea, Vietnam, and finally, beginning of constant regional conflicts leading to today’s internal battle between what history calls good versus evil or light against dark.
However one defines it, the battle is raging between spurious lies and indefatigable truth. We learn from history itself. One would think we would have learned by now!
Truth will win. But the fight is hard, and it hurts. Proof of liberty’s value is represented by memorials to those trials on display on The Mall in D.C and in states throughout our nation.
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and King. Two were contemporaries, one a savior, and one a fighter for what the preambles promised. For those here in 2024, we still are fighting even to this very day.
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