BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Saturday, July 24, 2010

WE THE PEOPLE

The Liberalization of America

Indeed, the Declaration of Independence, which advocated liberty and individual rights, was an extremely liberal document in a coservative world dominated by totalitarian, absolute monarchies. The revolutionary war proved that the American colonists were willing to fight and die for this liberalist viewpoint. Our victory triggered this liberalization and was copied by France less than twenty years later. The constitution, which guaranteed these rights and ended religous domination of government officially put this liberalization into practice, despite the protests of conservative religous groups, who insisted on the continuation of an established state church that demanded taxpayer dollars whether the taxpayers believed in God or not. It wasn't until 1786 that the liberal view emerged victorious with the Statute of Religous Freedom that finally guaranteed "Freedom of Conscience", or the right to believe, or NOT believe in anything you wish.

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