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Introduction.

Our podcast today is titled, The Moral Justification for the Second American Revolution. I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this is the Citizens Liberty Party News Network podcast for November 17, 2020.

We begin our argument for the moral justification of a second American revolution in agreement with a passage from Gordon Wood’s book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution.

Wood wrote,

          “To be an American could not be a matter of blood; it had to be a           matter of common belief and behavior. And the source of that    common belief and behavior was the American Revolution: it was the      revolution and only the Revolution that made them one people.”

The point Wood is making is that the first American Revolution forged a common set of national cultural and social values that bound all citizens together into a shared national mission of liberty.

A second American Revolution is justified to restore the moral philosophy of the shared national mission of liberty, obtained in the first revolution.

Bradley Thompson, in his book, America’s Revolutionary Mind, describes the constellation of common beliefs of the Revolution, as the “American Moral Philosophy,” and cites Locke’s admonition that citizens who adhere to the American civic virtue do not undermine the liberty of other citizens.

 

Thompson wrote,

          “Locke's fundamental law of nature (i.e., to follow right reason) issues           two commands: first, each and, every man should pursue his rational,           long-term self-interest; and, second, "No one ought to harm another in           his life, health, liberty, or possessions."

No common set of cultural or social values currently bind the socialists into a common mission of liberty. The nation is evenly divided between citizens who desire socialism and citizens who desire freedom, and those two conceptions of America are incompatible and irreconcilable.

In the election of 2020, in order to impose socialism, the socialists transgressed Locke’s second law of nature in the code of American Civic Virtue by taking away citizen’s rights to vote, and the socialists, have, therefore, abrogated their claim of American citizenship.

Jefferson sought to keep a moral society separate and apart from government power.

In subverting the election laws, the socialists seek to subordinate all of society under the jurisdiction of  a totalitarian government.

Socialists seek to replace an independent moral society with the arbitrary power of government, that they alone control, through the agencies of their vanguard socialist party.

The socialists knew, in advance, the damage their transgression would cause to the Trump voters, and proceeded anyways, to inflict that damage.

The socialists did not limit their attack to subverting the American idea of individual rights, but, in evading the election laws, they also subverted the collective American right of self-determination and self-government.

The socialists have claimed an illegitimate authority to govern, not derived from the consent of the governed.

Having engaged in an immoral act to gain political power, the Democrats, will never return to the original contract, or voluntarily adhere to America’s civic virtue.

Democrat socialists seek to elevate the attainment of raw political power of government over the natural rights of citizens.

The socialists deny the claim of individual moral responsibility and seek to replace it with the principle that only socialist elites can judge morally correct behavior.

Locke sees individual citizens as owners of their own labor.

Socialists see citizens as property of the Socialist State.

Locke sees each individual as a moral agent, able to reason, and entitled to freedom. Locke states that the moral system is based upon individualism.

Daniel Webster stated,

“Our system begins with the individual man. The public happiness is to be the aggregate of the happiness of individuals.” 

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