An Individual’s Declaration Against Progressivism

 

            It is a time of chaos and unrest that we find ourselves. When the truths that we hold to be self-evident are questioned and placed under relentless assault. When we are told people are not created equal, but instead suffer because they were born with a different skin color or gender. When we are told that the rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, come not from the highest power, but instead are granted by the government and can be alienated by that government as they see fit.

            This is the form of government the Progressives seek to impose on the American people. A government that derives its power, not from the consent of the governed but through coercion and force. A government that secures these right, for which the government was instituted to protect, for some and not others. A government that seeks death, subjugation, and the pursuit of misery, and denies the Right of the People to alter or abolish it. This form of government, seeking nothing but destructive ends, will not be built on principles of limited power, but built to impose power under the auspices of securing Safety and Happiness.

            It seems we have forgotten that prudence dictates that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. But when a long train of abuses designed to reduce people under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security.

            It is in this time of chaos where truth must be our guiding principle, for truth spoken to chaos will bring about order. Talk to each other in as clear and honest a manner as possible. Do not be ashamed for speaking truth badly, it is a hard thing to say clearly and an even harder thing to comprehend. Our great Republic is worth saving, Western ideals are worth preserving, do not be afraid to be proud of either.

            Show no fear when baseless insults are hurled in your direction. Instead present an open hand, for which you will receive much suffering. Yet this suffering is a small sacrifice for a better future. One where all men are created equal and possess unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is with these self-evident truths that I let this statement, by an individual, an echo of a declaration long ago be submitted to a candid world.