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Nov. 18th, 2004 02:03 pm( Fear a TrinityVixen Presidency! )
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And, from the book His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis, I have learned how Massachusetts has forever been the stalwart state when it comes to liberty. Perhaps not the most pragmatic, Massachusetts is owed a debt of gratitude from this whole country. Without it, we would never have been a frickin country. Yes, we got troops and supplies from the south, and Washington, too, but it's the events in Boston that brought about the stirring of revolution. I knew this already, but what the book has shown me is that, and this is pretty comforting, Massachusetts dragged the rest of the country kicking and screaming--mostly screaming. The rest of the states were reluctant, hesitant, downright obstinate. It makes me despair that the southern and RED states haven't learned the lesson of history--that far from their distrust of the bluest of the blue states being a hotbed of seedy liberalism, it is Massachusetts to whom they owe the rights they enjoy, the freedoms, the priveleges. Where I derive my comfort is in knowing that, in the end, Massachusetts won. So, it lost this round, but where MA goes, so, too, will the nation go. One day.
......Right?
( The Censorship Rag )
And, from the book His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis, I have learned how Massachusetts has forever been the stalwart state when it comes to liberty. Perhaps not the most pragmatic, Massachusetts is owed a debt of gratitude from this whole country. Without it, we would never have been a frickin country. Yes, we got troops and supplies from the south, and Washington, too, but it's the events in Boston that brought about the stirring of revolution. I knew this already, but what the book has shown me is that, and this is pretty comforting, Massachusetts dragged the rest of the country kicking and screaming--mostly screaming. The rest of the states were reluctant, hesitant, downright obstinate. It makes me despair that the southern and RED states haven't learned the lesson of history--that far from their distrust of the bluest of the blue states being a hotbed of seedy liberalism, it is Massachusetts to whom they owe the rights they enjoy, the freedoms, the priveleges. Where I derive my comfort is in knowing that, in the end, Massachusetts won. So, it lost this round, but where MA goes, so, too, will the nation go. One day.
......Right?
