Friday, July 03, 2020
American Independence Day!
It’s the fourth of July – the birthday of the greatest
country in the world, the greatest country that has ever existed: The United
States of America. These United States
constitute the only country ever founded on philosophical principles, and those
principles are the hope of all humanity.
America’s fundamental founding principle is the natural rights of the
individual. From that flow the corollary
principles of individual liberty and the sanctity of private property, limited
government, and an institutional system of checks and balances. All of this is based on the foundation of
reason, our fundamental epistemological tool.
No other country in history has ever been built on such
excellent principles. No other country
has ever been so successful in living up to them and promoting them. These principles have allowed Americans to
flourish and create unprecedented wealth.
This wealth creation has spread around the globe – it is capital and
ideas from the West, and especially America, that has led to the unparalleled
growth in incomes and living standards for people around the world. Thanks especially to America, the world is on
the verge of attaining freedom and prosperity for all, for every single person
willing to apply themselves under a system of natural liberty.
America must be celebrated.
Our principles must be celebrated.
And they must be promoted, unabashedly.
America and its principles are the hope of the world.
I’ve no sympathy for Black Lies Marxists and their
hangers-on, libertoonist critics of America, Democrats, foreign despots,
conservatives who turn out to be progressives, pre- and post-modernists, and
other opponents of America, and at present I’ve neither time or patience to
deal with their criticisms, which tend to be dumb and always wrong. So
I’ll not respond to these scoundrels here.
Instead, I’ll close with this:
This is a time for celebration of the greatest political
achievement in human history: The United States of America. Let’s make her greatest days lie ahead!
