WE hear daily from both sides of the political spectrum that America is now past the revolution part and on to claiming it’s spot in history…..and from the Left the revolution is still going on until we have equality, rights that are not transient, etc,,,,,,but what is the down and the low?
This is an article from Reason…..to me it sounds like a libertarian site…..(but you decide)….
What was the American Revolution actually about?
We all remember the broad strokes we learned in school: Independence from the British crown. Taxes on tea. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But on a deeper level, the American Revolution was—and is—a revolution in political theory, reimagining what a legitimate government is and what its relationship to its citizens should be.
Washington’s troops won the ground war 245 years ago at Yorktown, but the ideological battle continues against forces on both the left and the right who are pursuing a ruthless assault on America’s core values. The American Revolution isn’t over.
Inscribed inside the dome of the Jefferson Memorial are the words: “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson wrote that in an 1800 letter, but that feeling of hostility toward the tyranny of a distant monarch is what drove him and his fellow revolutionaries in 1776.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch summarized the Declaration’s core ideas in an interview with Reason: “The Declaration of Independence had three great ideas in it. That all of us are equal. That each of us has inalienable rights given to us by God, not government. And that we have the right to rule ourselves.”
That’s why Jefferson declared that a legitimate government requires the “consent of the governed.” Thomas Paine put it more scathingly in his 1776 pamphlet Common Sense, writing that “government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens.” Monarchy was the Devil’s most effective and enduring form of “idolatry.”
We don’t fret over tyrannical kings in today’s America. Only ceremonial vestiges of hereditary monarchy remain in the modern world. The Revolution achieved a complete victory in that sense.
Yet a counterrevolution is underway, one that views the American Revolution and the republic it birthed as a failed liberal regime that has outlived its usefulness. And these counterrevolutionaries sit remarkably close to the levers of power.
https://reason.com/video/2026/06/29/the-american-revolution-isnt-over
Is this a continuing revolution to guarantee the rights of Americans or just something written to try and calm the rhetoric down?
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I suppose the US is now in its ‘Roman Dictatorship’ period, and the original revolution has become little more than a fond memory. Trump is the new Nero, and he will burn it down rather than walk away from power.
Best wishes, Pete.
Donny as Nero….I can see it. chuq