Thursday, May 02, 2019

America, an Idea?

Old-and-Slow Joe Biden is taking a lot of flak for proclaiming that "America is an idea."

I don't think Joe could define that more clearly; based on clips of his speeches in the last couple of days, he's not even doing as well as Drunken Hillary in the elocution department and would definitely lose a contest in political philosophy to a 5th-grader.

Oh, well.  He'll be around to bully the kids working in the hamburger stand again, I suppose, so you can tell him what you think, if his Praetorian Guard lets you get near him.

Meantime, I'll leave you with what G K Chesterton said about America.

“America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature. It enunciates that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice, and that their authority is for that reason just. It certainly does condemn anarchism, and it does also by inference condemn atheism, since it clearly names the Creator as the ultimate authority from whom these equal rights are derived. Nobody expects a modern political system to proceed logically in the application of such dogmas, and in the matter of God and Government it is naturally God whose claim is taken more lightly. The point is that there is a creed, if not about divine, at least about human things.”

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