Vision Div (Founding Fathers subsection)

So many folks are always going around quoting the "Founding Fathers" (usually those on the right of the political spectrum). Here's one for any and all to ponder:

“When it shall be said in any country in the world,’ my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners; my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend because I am a friend of its happiness’; when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and its government.” 

Thomas Paine — Rights of Man, Part the Second 

Liberal div ........

Think about it ......... This is the kind of shit that encourages this kind of behavior.

Have we really fallen that far ???
My Mother calles me a "Liberal" and a "Socialist" ........ and then prays for my soul. Yep, I'm wrong and I'm goin' to hell. I'm amazed at how many of my retired military comrades think the same way that I do.
Guess I know where we'll be holding a reunion somewhere in the future.

The more and more I hear the rhetoric from those seeking the Republican shiny thing, the more I wonder if these people have been living on another planet in an alternate universe. They obviously have had little recent contact with the middle class ( though they talk about 'em all the time ). Of course at the rate the "middle class" in this country is disappearing, they're certainly getting harder to find.

Yep, I'm one of those ......... and I ain't ashamed of it. I live in the hope that my friends on the right will come to their senses, but I don't hate them. My parents didn't raise me to hate. Friends will respectfully disagree, but will continue to RESPECT.

As Jon Talton wrote today, "The only thing that can save America is liberalism."