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#politics #unitedstates #NobelPrize Vivek Ramaswamy who ran for president in the Republican primary, writes on Substack defending JD Vance, a fellow Ohioan, against Democrat criticism, that America has been founded by the weird. A free thinking people. The uncommon genius of the founding fathers led by Benjamin Franklin at one place and one time in history. I agree. They still inspire. The history of the country since has been to stay true to them with every generation learning and understanding what they said, meant, and did. Very few have done so. America’s defense has always been taking refuge and recourse in the ideals of its founding. The practice of America since, however, has not been how the country was founded by the founders working excruciatingly smart and hard to practice the essence of the enlightenment in the pragmatics of human affairs: A. Dignity B. Self-evident C. Equal D. Life E. Liberty F. Happiness G. Inclusion H. Opportunity It is this pragmatics, practical politics, of translating the ideals of the enlightenment, the “how” of founding a country unprecedented in human history, including Athens, but rooted in the synthesis and amalgam of many preceding ideas in the history of civilization, by collegial conversation, not domestic militancy, which gave it the resilience to survive for 248 years, two years short of quarter of a millennium. The next two years, the last mile to the marathon sprint of 250 years since 1776, can compromise it all.

Liberty and Order: The First American Party Struggle - OA PDF: https://lnkd.in/gicRuSxk Liberty and Order is an ambitious anthology of primary source writings: letters, circulars, debate transcriptions, House proceedings, and newspaper articles that document the years during which America’s Founding generation divided over the sort of country the United States was to become. With this significant collection, the reader receives a deeper understanding of the complex issues, struggles, and personalities that made up the first great party battle and that continue to shape our representative government today. Within three years of the inauguration of the new federal Constitution, America’s revolutionary leaders divided bitterly over the policies most appropriate for the infant nation. Within five years, two clashing groups were winning thousands of ordinary voters to their side. Within adecade, the collision had resulted in a full-blown party war. There has never been another struggle like it. These were the first true parties in the history of the world—the first, that is, to mobilize and organize a large proportion of a mass electorate for a national competition. More than that, these parties argued at a depth and fought with a ferocity that has never been repeated. The Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans—the friends of order and the friends of liberty as they sometimes called themselves—were both convinced that more than office, more than clashing interests, and more, indeed, than even national policy in the ordinary sense were fundamentally at stake in their quarrel. Their struggle, they believed, was over nothing less profound than the sort of future the United States would have, the sort of nation America was to be. Each regarded the other as a serious threat to what was not yet called the American way. And from their own perspectives, both were right. This first great party battle is, of course, completely fascinating for its own sake. Between the framing of the Constitution and the War of 1812, the generation that had made the world’s first democratic revolution set about to put its revolutionary vision into practice on a national stage. #Liberty #Order #AmericanFounding #FoundingFathers #AmericanParties #PartySystem #Federalist #AntiFederalists #Jeffersonian #Hamiltonian #UnitedStates #nationbuilding #politicalrhetoric

The Founders Fundamental Principles The relative uniformity of fundamental thought shared by these men included strong and unusually well-defined convictions concerning religious principles, political precepts, economic fundamentals, and long-range social goals. On particulars, of course, they quarreled, but when discussing fundamental precepts and ultimate objectives they seemed practically unanimous. They even had strong criticism of one another as individual personalities, yet admired each other as laborers in the common cause. John Adams, for example, felt a strong personality conflict between himself and Benjamin Franklin and even Thomas Jefferson. Yet Adams' writings are steeped in accolades for both of them, and their writings carried the same for him. One of George Washington's most vehement critics was Dr. Benjamin Rush, and yet that Pennsylvania physician boldly supported everything for which Washington worked and fought. We will now proceed to carefully examine the 28 major principles on which the American Founders established the first free people in modern times. These are great ideas which provided the intellectual, political, and economic climate for the formation of the greatest government ever...Our Republic. The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.~Andrew Jackson~ Don't let liberal democrats or republicans ruin what so many have sacrificed so much to preserve.

The Founders Fundamental Principles The relative uniformity of fundamental thought shared by these men included strong and unusually well-defined convictions concerning religious principles, political precepts, economic fundamentals, and long-range social goals. On particulars, of course, they quarreled, but when discussing fundamental precepts and ultimate objectives they seemed practically unanimous. They even had strong criticism of one another as individual personalities, yet admired each other as laborers in the common cause. John Adams, for example, felt a strong personality conflict between himself and Benjamin Franklin and even Thomas Jefferson. Yet Adams' writings are steeped in accolades for both of them, and their writings carried the same for him. One of George Washington's most vehement critics was Dr. Benjamin Rush, and yet that Pennsylvania physician boldly supported everything for which Washington worked and fought. We will now proceed to carefully examine the 28 major principles on which the American Founders established the first free people in modern times. These are great ideas which provided the intellectual, political, and economic climate for the formation of the greatest government ever...Our Republic. The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.~Andrew Jackson~ Don't let liberal democrats or republicans ruin what so many have sacrificed so much to preserve.

Are lobbyist and their corporate clients the real deep state? The John Birch Society, the MAGA of its day, had the Zionist Occupation Government to describe a secret Jewish cabal that control western governments. Today Republicans talk about a “Deep State” cabal of unelected officials secretively pulling the strings of American government. But are Washington lobbyists and their corporate clients the real Deep State? Lobbyists have disguised their influence so well that it is barely visible even to savvy Washington insiders. Decades of deregulation and the revolving door allows industry executives move into government policy positions. Trump had his Cabinet of Billionaires like Betsy DeVoss. Billionaire Linda McMahon was picked for Small Business Administrator and billionaire Vincent Viola was selected as Secretary for the Army. Extreme right wing organizations like the Heritage Foundation are now among the top clients of Washington lobbyist. A common thread across right wing lobbyists and Trump's Cabinet of Billionaires is absolutist policies that aim to return the US to some mythical past where Christian theology is the law of the land and where minorities and women know their place. Corporations, far-right politicians, and judges will exert more control over nearly every aspect American’s lives. So called Christian values will replace the rule of law. The Deep State will have come out of the closet of nightmares and into your home. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

(...) "Vigilance required George Washington, in his first inaugural address, described the ‘republican model of government’ as an ‘experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.’ National Gallery, Corcoran collection If you tried to quantify references to the democratic “experiment” throughout American history, you would find, I suspect, more pessimistic than optimistic invocations, more fears that the experiment is at imminent risk of failing than standpat complacency that it has succeeded. Consider, for example, the popularity of such recent tomes as “How Democracies Die,” by political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, and “Twilight of Democracy,” by journalist and historian Anne Applebaum. Why this persistence of pessimism? Historians of the United States have long noted the popularity since the time of the Puritans of so-called “Jeremiads” and “declension narratives” – or, to put it more colloquially, nostalgia for the good old days and the belief that society is going to hell in a handbasket. The human-made nature of our institutions has always been a source of both hope and anxiety. Hope that America could break the shackles of old-world oppression and make the world anew; anxiety that the improvisational nature of democracy leaves it vulnerable to anarchy and subversion. American democracy has faced genuine, sometimes existential threats. Though its attribution to Thomas Jefferson is apparently apocryphal, the adage that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance is justly celebrated. The hard truth is that the “experiment” of American democracy will never be finished so long as the promise of equality and liberty for all remains anywhere unfulfilled. The temptation to give in to despair or paranoia in the face of the experiment’s open-endedness is understandable. But fears about its fragility should be tempered with a recognition that democracy’s essential and demonstrated malleability – its capacity for adaptation, improvement and expanding inclusivity – can be and has historically been a source of strength and resilience as well as vulnerability". #democracy #monarchy #Americanfounders #republics #history 

On July 4, 1826, two prominent presidents, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams of USA, took their final breaths within hours of each other. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both Founding Fathers and former Presidents of the United States, had significant ideological differences, but they also shared several core principles that shaped their political views and actions. Both Jefferson and Adams were staunch advocates for American independence from British rule, meaning they vehemently opposed the British occupation of the USA. Both leaders opposed the idea of a monarchy and supported the establishment of a republic where power resided with the people and their elected representatives. They believed in the rule of law and the importance of a government based on laws rather than the whims of rulers. They supported the idea of federalism, with a division of powers between the national and state governments. Both were influenced by Enlightenment ideals, emphasizing reason, science, and the pursuit of knowledge. They shared a belief in the inherent rights of individuals, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as articulated in the Declaration of Independence. Both were advocates for civil liberties, although their approaches differed. They believed in protecting the freedoms of speech, press, and religion. They emphasized the importance of leaders setting a moral example and acting with integrity. We must now take a critical audit of present-day USA especially from the period of the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The country to rely heavily on brutal military force and maintains an imperialist policy that plunders other nations. It frequently denies the democratic decisions made by other countries and illegitimately intervenes in their internal affairs. The USA does not support a pluralistic world and denies the right to self-determination for the Palestinians in their homeland. Additionally, it unconditionally supports Israel in its suppression of the Palestinian resistance movement.

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In anticipation of the 4th of July celebration tomorrow, we reflect on the Declaration of Independence, a revolutionary and liberating ideal that forever changed the course of history. As Abraham Lincoln eloquently phrased almost 100 years after independence, it marked the beginning of "government of the people, by the people, for the people." This was not merely independence from a monarchy but the birth of a novel, democratic form of government. At Ideovee/BetterProspecting, we want to thank our USA-based customers, partners, staff, and friends for their continued support and collaboration. We wish you all a happy and safe Independence Day celebration with your loved ones. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people 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.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among people, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." source ~ Declaration of Independence 1776 "A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal." source ~ Thomas Paine; English-born American Founding Father, Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary #IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly #DeclarationOfIndependence #Democracy #BetterProspecting #Celebration #Community

Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, in the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C., and he died on April 15, 1865. He was America’s 16th and arguably its greatest president thus far. He was the first person elected from the Republican Party as president of these United States in the presidential election of November 6, 1860. The Republican Party had been founded six years earlier in 1854 by antislavery democrats after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Lincoln served as president during the American Civil War between the slavery-supporting Confederate States and antislavery Union (1861-1865). He signed the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, and it became effective on January 1, 1863. His Emancipation Proclamation became the underpinning for the three immediate post-civil war amendments to the U.S. Constitution — the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments — which began the process of granting equal rights to all Americans. He was not a perfect man at all, but he did some great things for the United States. Lincoln is one of the eight U.S. presidents who’ve died in office: four died by assassinations, and four from natural causes. Abraham Lincoln, JFK, MLK, and many other great Americans were killed just because they wanted America to be true to what it said in its Declaration of Independence and Constitution— equality for all — but a certain group of Americans didn’t want that. I love Abraham Lincoln like a trusted ally. #history #worldhistory #ushistory #americanhistory #globalevents #northamerica #abrahamlincoln #uspolitics #usconstitution