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November 9, 2023

In 1765, American colonists cheerfully embraced the sovereignty of their young English king.  They celebrated his June 4 birthday with bonfires, bell-ringing, public speeches, and joyful feasts.  They were proud to be loyal subjects of the Crown.  

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Eleven years later, Americans “honored” King George III’s birthday by carrying out mock funeral processions and saved their fireworks and celebratory cannon blasts for their new Independence Day, July 4.

From happy and obedient servants of the king to revolutionaries who cheered for his death amidst the rousing beat of fifes and drums — all in the span of a short decade.

What happened?  The Stamp Act happened.  A series of parliamentary actions that sought to levy taxes on the American colonies had the inadvertent effect of igniting latent revolutionary fervor.  In unintentionally creating an us/them dynamic between Mother England and her children, Parliament helped forge a distinctly American identity.  A handful of new fiscal regulations lit a squib that would later explode into a history-shattering rebellion.  

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Such is the power of any movement championing liberty as its cause.

Of all the reasons that Marxist globalists despise and fear America, it is our country’s historic foundation in personal liberty that tops the list.  After all, what is liberty’s natural foe, if not the State?

For government to champion personal liberty, it must submit to the public’s will and shackle its own powers.  For government to applaud individual freedom, it must acknowledge that the State’s authority is freedom’s antipode.

For this very reason, government agents use their resources to redefine freedom into something that only the State can provide.  We will free you from crime, poverty, hateful speech, and the consequences of your own actions.  All you must do is bow down to your government and do exactly as we say.  When governments successfully redefine freedom as gifts from the State, then people are hypnotized into handing over their liberty for a lifetime of indentured servitude.  

Slumbering citizens do their master’s bidding.  They celebrate their king’s birthday as if it were their own.  Then someone in the mold of a Sam Adams or Paul Revere comes along, lights a match, and says, “See this — it is liberty; watch what happens when it catches fire in the hearts of men.”  Old orders burn and rotten institutions implode.

Why is the Make America Great Again movement such a threat to the Establishment Class in D.C.?  Because it is a modern-day rebirth of the Sons and Daughters of American Liberty.  It represents a group of Americans allied, irrespective of race or class, who hear the growing sound of fifes and the steady beat of drums.  Its revolutionary fervor echoes that of the American colonists who transformed themselves from obedient servants to patriotic heroes in a few short years.  Its rallying cry promises the restoration of power to the people and the end of an unprincipled, unconstitutional State.  MAGA is that squib that has the potential to turn the world upside-down again, and every Deep State parasite feeding at D.C.’s taxpayer-funded trough fears that its promise will one day come true.