Douglas MacKinnon - The 56: Liberty Lessons From Those Who Risked All to Sign The Declaration of Independence

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The 56:

Liberty Lessons From Those Who Risked All to Sign The Declaration of Independence

2022 by Douglas MacKinnon

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For todays Patriots seeking to keep the memories of our Founding Fathers burning bright and the Republic they created strong, free, fair, and fore ver a live.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Inde pend ence .

President Abraham Lincoln, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1861

Contents

The overriding and desperate need for a book such as thisat least in my mindwas given birthironically and hopefully fittinglyon the th of J uly, 2020 .

It was on that day, while doing research in preparation for writing a column heralding the increasingly critical importance of the 4th of July, I came across example after example after example of many on the Left not only denigrating our most sacred American holiday but also some actually calling for its very banning.

The ferocity of their comments and the deep and growing rage some of them seemed to exhibit froze me in place as I honestly wondered how so manyalmost all standing atop platforms of wealth, privilege, political power, or all combinedhad come to so hate the symbolic date of July 4, 1776, orits celebration? A date that did give birth to a Republic that did make possible their tremendous wealth, privilege, political power, andrage.

My very next thought literally sent a chill down my spine.

What if they are not only successful in banning the 4th of July but also, ultimately, in erasing the sacrifices, accomplishments, and very names of those who signed the Declaration of Independence on that fateful day?

To those who believe such totalitarian censorship will never come to be in the United States of America, I would urgently ask them to review how quickly and brutally many on the Left not only were able to create the woke cancel culture but also use it to silence those they opposed and, in many cases, literally destroy their livelihoods and, consequently, their very lives in the process.

Will the day, which represents the act of those men coming together as one to declare our independence from tyranny and our right to exist as a sovereign nation and a free people soon be altered, smeared, or outright canceled?

Flash ahead approximately 246 years from that historic and sacred time period, and the answer seems quite obvious . More and more of those in positions of great power and influence from the Leftwho have come to dominate the media, academia, entertainment, science, and medicineoften via discrimination against Republicans, conservatives, or people of traditional faithwill most certainly try.

The fact that the Left now does control those major megaphones of our very nation certainly does tip the scales of monolithic-groupthink injustice strongly in their favor. Who is really left to stop them?

As that menacing cloud of total censorship moves closer and closer to a history many of us revere, one fact is already a reality. The meaning of the 4th of July and the celebration of the 4th of July have already been deliberately watered down by many on the Left over the last number of years.

It is clearly their hope that, as they do continue to water it down and it becomes lighter and lighter on the already revisionist pages of our fauxAmerican history books, it will simply fade into nothingness to the current and future generations of Americans.

Disappea r forever.

To deny they are succeeding with this plan is to deny the very truth playing out before our eyes.

How can we stop it?

Unfortunately, looking toward the leaders from the right for support, comfort, and protection over the last couple of decades has proven to be a mixed bag at best and crushingly disheartening at worst.

Because the Left has come to so completely dominate the media, academia, entertainment, andas we have witnessed these last few yearsscience, and medicine as well, many in positions of power from the Right have simply chosen to surrender to the massive and unchecked power of the Left. Not so shockingly, some from the Right have quite sadly and eagerly swept in the monetary crumbs they are fed by those who are slowly but surely subjugating what was once the United States of America.

In reality, the only way out of this assault upon the freedoms and liberties handed down to us by the Founding Fathers would be for those from the Right with the means ($) and power to do so, to get out of the peanut gallery of the arena that represents our nation and jump down to the dirty and uncertain floor of that arena to fight for theirand our survival.

No one expressed this sentimentor key ingredient for survivalbetter than Teddy Roosevelt when, on April 23, 1910, in Paris, he gave his now famous speech titled Citizenship in a Republic. A speech now better known the world over simply as the Man in the Arena.

Stressed the former president, in part:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

For far too many years now, there have been voices out there pretending to speak for the rights of Republicans, conservatives, libertarians, and people of traditional faith who have continually, happily, and quite profitably placed themselves within the camp of those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

It is not difficult at all to identify them. Most can now see them for who and what they have become but choose to deny the obvious out of a false sense of hope.

Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice; shame on me.

Fool me three times, andwe may need a new country.

Unfortunately, it seems some within our nation have a bottomless capacity to be fooled by those willingly appeasing the Left in return for their meager crumbs.

Whether someone is spiritual or not, the truism The Lord helps those who help themselves applies in every single walk of life. Most especially when it comes to fighting for our rights and our liberty.

The fact is, that within our nation, there are Republicans, conservatives, and people of traditional faith who collectively are worth over $1 trillion. Thats trillion with a t. As in over one thousand billio n dol lars .

And yet, as a group, most choose to remain in the stands in the section housing those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.