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I googled...Is the Republican party losin it's grip on reality?
I came up with this letter to the editor of the New Richmond News
Apparently, the only required reading to qualify for the TEA Party is the Constitution and an Ayn Rand novel. For some reason, the pro-abortion atheist Ayn Rand has become the patron saint of the God-fearing, pro-life Republican TEA Party. Paul has said he is “a big fan of Ayn Rand. I’ve read all her novels.”
SNIP:
The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery was ratified in 1865. This of course was after the bloodiest war in our nation’s history was fought. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified making African Americans citizens and guaranteeing all citizens “the equal protection of the laws.” Of course, most Native Americans were excluded from this Amendment, as the government was busy trying to steal their lands and eliminating them through genocide.
In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified stating that the right of citizens to vote “shall not be denied of abridged…on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Of course, this didn’t mean women could vote. It also didn’t mean Southern states couldn’t keep blacks from voting or the local law would look the other way as hundreds of blacks were being lynched. Even though a Constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote was introduced in 1878, women didn’t get the right to vote until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
Rand Paul’s statement that everybody was “free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness” when this country was founded is pure fiction. Paul and his TEA Party patriots should spend less time reading Ayn Rand’s fiction and more time reading American history. They might gain a broader understanding of reality and lose their latent teenage fantasies of being a fictional character in a poorly written novel by Ayn Rand.
SNIP:
The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery was ratified in 1865. This of course was after the bloodiest war in our nation’s history was fought. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified making African Americans citizens and guaranteeing all citizens “the equal protection of the laws.” Of course, most Native Americans were excluded from this Amendment, as the government was busy trying to steal their lands and eliminating them through genocide.
In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified stating that the right of citizens to vote “shall not be denied of abridged…on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Of course, this didn’t mean women could vote. It also didn’t mean Southern states couldn’t keep blacks from voting or the local law would look the other way as hundreds of blacks were being lynched. Even though a Constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote was introduced in 1878, women didn’t get the right to vote until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
Rand Paul’s statement that everybody was “free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness” when this country was founded is pure fiction. Paul and his TEA Party patriots should spend less time reading Ayn Rand’s fiction and more time reading American history. They might gain a broader understanding of reality and lose their latent teenage fantasies of being a fictional character in a poorly written novel by Ayn Rand.
This was prnted in March 2013 however~
Full letter here.
http://www.newrichmond-news.com/event/article/id/38641/
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