One's country was like one's self. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Great Experiment
One's country was like one's self. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Great Experiment
IF WE CAN KEEP IT
Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" “A republic, if you can keep it.” Monday, September 17, 1787
"In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government." James Madison, Federalist No. 10, November 23, 1787
"The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness." George Washington, January 9, 1790
Paleoconservatism: Relighting America's Torch of Liberty
Paleoconservatism: Relighting America’s Torch of Liberty
Paleoconservatism: Relighting America’s Torch of Liberty
By TLB Contributing Author: Ken LaRive
The American Attitude
America did not get into the shape it is now by accident. There are sound scientific and psychological tools that have wrest control of government from the people, and our founders emphatically warned us. I’m sure if they were alive today they would scream into our faces, and…
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How about Schroedinger's Trump
We put him in a box with poison and as long as we don't open the box he's either dead alive or both but we don't give a shit because we got rid of him
…the purpose of it is to explain how the possible nomination and election of either of these three candidates effectively means the end of what Alexis de Tocqueville called “The Great Experiment.” Benjamin Franklin implied in a discussion that our great American Republic will always live on a knife’s edge when a woman asked him this question: “What do we have doctor, a monarchy or republic? Franklin’s response was “A republic, madam, if you can keep it!” A republic is a delicate form of government–requiring a constant balance of power between branches of government. Any time that one branch gets more than the others, it is the end of the republic.
https://therevolutionariesofnebraska.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/the-end-of-the-great-experiment/
HITRECORD is now on television with some pretty awesome short segments & collaborations. This is Episode #1.
Click. Watch. & Enjoy.
-Cory U