"The 250th anniversary of the American experiment, which is being celebrated this year, is sure to witness a struggle over the story-and future-of the United States. On one side will stand advocates for capitalism without constraint, Christian nationalism, and colonial conquest. They will make ahistorical apologies for the bedraggled presidency of Donald Trump and for a subservient Republican Congress that is increasingly likely to be disempowered by the enraged electorate in November."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,-That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,"
The 250th anniversary will witness a struggle over the nation's story and future. One faction champions unrestrained capitalism, Christian nationalism, and colonial conquest and offers ahistorical defenses of Donald Trump's presidency and a subservient Republican Congress. Another faction embraces the Declaration of Independence's democratic premises, centering equality, unalienable rights, and government by consent. The Declaration affirms Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness and asserts the people's right to alter or abolish governments that become destructive of those ends. Anti-royalists acknowledge that those promises have never been fully realized and require continued work.
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