Once upon a time, at the end of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what the result had been – a monarchy or a republic.
Franklin famously replied “A Republic – if you can keep it”.
There are times I despair of the idea that The People of this country actually can keep it.
Keeping a republic is hard. It requires dedication to tough ideas, and a unified social understanding that has been undermined by the Progressive Era*.
*Funny how “Progressives” want to revert to dictatorships, an even older idea than republics.
Funny how “Progressives” want to revert to dictatorships, an even older idea than republics
make it a stone age.
Who cares about free speech or religion if the trains run on time, right?
Fortunately we did get the Bill of Rights. For the most part, I think many of the freedoms in the Bill of Rights are relatively secure. At least for now. We would need several more activist judges in various federal courts before we lose most of those freedoms.
Speech and 2nd amendment rights have done well. The one right I truly believe we will lose soon is the Freedom of Religion. We are near the tipping point where there are more hardcore anti-Christian bigots in the country than there are true traditional Biblical Christians. Polls are misleading as they include Uncle Tom Christians like ELCAers who inflate the numbers of believers in the US.
Of all the rights under the Bill of Rights, Religious Freedom is the only one that Big Corporations have declared war on. As some have said, they left is trying to criminalize Christianity.
To add….the author of your linked article is the Atheist Charles Cooke. He sees what is occurring.
We have the BOR, but it seems we need to defend it pretty often……
Chuck, I agree. And people better dispense with the notion of “as long as it doesn’t affect me”, because at some point it will.
Loss of freedom for ANY group of people is a loss of freedom for all.
Raised Lutheran, I find myself for the past 3 decades agnostic. However I find the treatment of Christians in the “Land of the Free” abhorant to say the least.