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The American Crises - Pt 3 · Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast

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  This is Plaza B Live, the official podcast of The Dave
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  Bowman Show. Thomas Paine didn't mince words
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  in 1776, while most people were still bowing to the idea of
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  monarchy. He called King George the Third
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  the royal brood of Britain. That wasn't just an insult, it
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  was a declaration of war against everything King stood for.
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  Payne's message in common sense was simple and revolutionary.
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  No man has a divine right to rule another.
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  He tore into the whole idea of hereditary power, pointing out
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  that every royal family started with some guy who grabbed a
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  crown by force, and generations later we're still pretending his
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  descendants are special. He thought that was ridiculous,
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  and honestly, he wasn't wrong. He mocked the notion of divine
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  right as a superstition that kept people obedient.
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  To Paine, monarchy was tyranny wrapped in silk.
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  George the Third, sending armies to crush his own subjects, had
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  forfeited any claim to moral authority.
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  What made Paine's writing so powerful was its plainness.
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  He spoke directly to farmers, tradesmen, and soldiers, telling
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  them that freedom didn't come from kings, it came from the
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  people themselves. Common sense wasn't just an
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  argument for independence, it was a call to grow up, to stop
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  worshipping crowns and to take responsibility for self
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  government pains. Words lit a fire that burns
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  straight through royal tradition, and that fire still
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  burns in every free Nation Today.