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Karen Scofield's avatar

Holy Smokes 😲 this piece took me a while to wrap my head around the slippery slope we're on. Reading your article felt like a scary ride on a roller 🎒 coaster, but I knew I'd be okay after, because it ends.But alas,my conclusion is, this is no roller coaster at all, this is real life,and I can't stop it. What I don't know is a lot, but I believe your truth's here, Thank you,Rohn, for making me a little smarter today, and I will reStack ASAP πŸ™

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well Jefferson thought his slaves smelled bad too, but they bathed and he didn't, just sprayed perfume all over himself.

The only problem I find with "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” His final statement is the most devastating. He concludes the statement with β€œIt is it's natural manure.” is that in the 236 year of the constitution I count 293 instances (probably more) where patriots blood was shed proportionately to tyrants around 40:1 and so the patriots don't ever become as heroic as the tyrants do.

I don't know if there were any heroes during the war between north and south, but that if you can find accounts contemporary to the war, black troops proportionately sacrificed much more of their blood out of patriotism or promises made, but none of the promises made and the blood spilled didn't gain them anything, the patriotism buried under the rug and forgotten.

But all dynasties and empires do collapse or overthrown.

Even here there's not been smooth dynastic sailing for the political overlords, and as I have files on 293 instances where some group tried to break their chains and the government johnny's came merrily marching out of tune with its citizens (sometimes non-citizens). The first post-constitutional was in the year of the constitutions when baker' apprentices in Charleston demanded better conditions. and the govt (and presumably bakery owners decided the best solution was to shoot all the apprentices, or hand those who survived.

Since then there has been at least 57 more times the US has killed dissatisfied groups than there have been years of the constitution.

By 1794, got on his hose and personally 13-15000 troops against seven thousand farmers in pennsylvania, but I do believe that was the last time a was 25:0 In other words there was not a single government casualty. And then there is a tidbitty caveat that 75 rebels or so died during the battle, but not of the battle and 400 farmers went straight to ? They never were to return to their families and farms,

Maybe they became the ghost riders of the cattleman's myth.

But you know all govts fall someday to violence. It is its natural manure, so to speak.

so did Jefferson sleep with his stinking slaves after they bathed or did he perfume them first. There is a bit of evidence I heard somewhere but could never confirmed. But then there is only so much perform one can douse upon oneself before the manure begins to smell a whole lot better.

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