🧵James Madison had something to say about tyrants like this. Here are his words, words he risked his life to think and say. Let's read them so as not to allow the "idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks clear thinking":

"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.

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🧵"That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest. A magistrate issuing his warrants to a press gang, would be in his proper functions in Turkey or Indostan, under appellations proverbial of the most compleat despotism.

🧵A thread where we look to the past to escape "the idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks clear thinking."

American taxpayers are righteous in their fury at the theft of our property. We have a heritage hundreds of thousands of people bled and died to give to us, their Posterity. And as many are commenting now, our "leaders'" egregious and myriad violations of duty is more than sufficient for us to openly revolt.

From John Dos Passos: "We need to know what kind of firm ground other men, belonging to generations before us, have found to stand on. In spite of changing conditions of life they were not very different from ourselves, their thoughts were the grandfathers of our thoughts, they managed to meet situations as difficult as those we have to face, to meet them sometimes lightheartedly, and in some measure to make their hopes prevail. We need to know how they did it."

Below are some of the underpinnings of the absolute right of citizens to force drastic change in the face of massive violations of the Rule of Law. I assigned these to my econ students the readings from Aristotle, Aquinas, Locke, and Hayek over Christmas break to prepare for four separate seminar discussions based on three sets of readings. The first discussion is on the Rule of Law; all the readings are in the replies below. 🧵Essential Question:

Analyze the revolution of self-rule—the move from institutions that created order from the top down to institutions that allowed order to emerge from the bottom up. What were the institutional changes that helped the United States and England lead the way in establishing economic freedom and wealth for the masses?

It is done. Here are clickable links of over 400 books in the western canon, separated by age group. It's meant for all of you who want the best for your child's education and for your own as well.

The good news? Emily Dickinson was right when she said of books: "How frugal is the chariot that bears the human soul."

Link to the library below: ⬇️ A Library to Build Great Americans
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🧵Many are appropriately aghast at what the State is (and isn't) doing in North Carolina. How could they?!

Simple. They know you can't hold them accountable because they hold the Ring of Power: our schools.

Below, all that's wrong with American public schools in five essays. 1. Intro: Your kids aren't learning. At All. educatedandfree.substack.com/p/your-kids-ar…

Can't avoid federal school lunch funding in many states if you have ANY kid who might need it. A🧵 on how the Statists trap schools. 1/

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First, the surveys. Feds twll K12 that they can have more funding if families complete surveys. 2/

Here's how you know public school is dead:

I had dinner with an old teacher friend the other day. She's noticeably exhausted. She tried not to talk shop, but kept drifting back. Several students popped up repeatedly in her narrative. The stories were all the same, at root. 1/ These kids have storied pasts. Nothing the school tries changes their behavior in any way. They've held multiple interventions following their MTSS (aka RTI, aka PBIS) plan. Multiple pros are involved: counselors, psychs, speech-language paths, teachers, and principals. 2/