Comment #5

eddessaknight — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 09:53:19 GMT

Good due process analysis Think, many thanks

Comment #4

Think — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 03:29:44 GMT

Did they purchase carbon offsets so they could burn those flags? Did they pay the flag burning taxes? Did they get a permit to burn those flags....oh the regulations they all must have violated!!! There must be some sort of fine for not getting a permit, not buying carbon offsets and not paying the flag burning taxes. Not to mention they aren't Six feet apart and there is no way to tell from that photo if they are masked up... [ More ]

Comment #3

eddessaknight — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 23:46:40 GMT

Enough is Enough!

Comment #2

jarasan — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:48:14 GMT

No, they have not.

Comment #1

eddessaknight — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:45:16 GMT

These recalcitrant, ingrate people �� should get the hell out of the USA and go to Cuba, Venezuela or China

Original Blog Entry: Progressives have convinced us America is evil & must be destroyed :-(

eddessaknight — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:34:41 GMT

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How ostensible progressives have convinced us America is evil and must be destroyed :-(

By Ben Shapiro

July 18, 2020 |

Left-wing activists burn US flags on the Fourth of July as Democratic Party Disintegrationists seek to change the fundamental story of America from one of historic progress to one of historic evil.Sipa USA via AP

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The following essay is an excerpt from Ben Shapiro s new book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

The philosophy of division is a philosophy that derides any notion of American unity as a lie, and bathes that which links us Abraham Lincoln s bonds of affection and mystic chords of memory in acid, disintegrating our ties and casting us all adrift.

I call this strain of thought Disintegrationism.

In order to argue that America s philosophy is wrongheaded, her culture diseased, and her history evil, Disintegrationists must engage in an extraordinarily selective reading of reality. They must home in, in excruciating detail, on America s sins, which, in context, would be fine but rob that history of all context or subsequent history. Exploitation is a feature of every human society, and repeated mistreatment by some groups of other groups is a similarly common feature. What is uncommon indeed, unprecedented in human history are prosperity, peace, and freedom.

It is simply undeniable that capitalism, founded on protection of property rights the ideology of the Founding Fathers has been uniquely successful in spreading peace and prosperity both domestically and around the globe. Since the dawn of the Enlightenment, the enshrinement of individual rights, and the advent of protection for private property the roots of capitalism global GDP has increased exponentially, in shocking fashion. In the year 1 BCE, global GDP amounted to $183 billion; in 1000, global GDP was approximately $210 billion; in 1500, it was still just $431 billion; in 1700, $643 billion; as of 2013, $101 trillion. That is a 15 percent increase in the first millennium, and a 15,700 percent increase from 1700 to present.

It is similarly undeniable that the spread of peace has been a direct result of American hegemony. On a year-by-year basis, international war deaths have decreased precipitously since World War II, from a high of nearly 200 deaths per 100,000 people at the end of that conflict to a low of well below 0.5 deaths per 100,000 people at the turn of the twentieth century. Global life expectancy has doubled since 1900. Furthermore, America has become the most tolerant country on earth. According to the Washington Post, a new Swedish survey found that people from the United Kingdom, America, Canada and Australia, as well as certain Latin American countries, were most likely to embrace a racially diverse neighbor. Other European countries aren t nearly as tolerant. And none of those countries has ever elected a black man twice with more than 65 million votes each time, to serve as the leader of those countries.

Enlarge ImageDemocrats like Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Former Rep. Beto O Rourke promote the notion that a supposedly oppressed coalition must rise up and rewrite the entire nature of the American bargain.REUTERS; AP; MediaPunch

Finally, it is perfectly obvious that global freedom has expanded wherever American influence has expanded. According to the Polity Project at the University of Maryland, democracy is actually at a global high, and has been in particularly steep ascent since the death of the Soviet Union a collapse brought about, of course, by America s willingness to pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty, as John F. Kennedy put it in his inaugural address.

The bar for Disintegrationists, then, is high. To surpass it, they must employ a clever, seductive, and deeply vicious strategy.

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