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#50 A MODERN DECLARATION
A republic doesn’t usually die all at once.
It is weakened by lies. Excused by courts. Sold by cowards. Captured by wealth. Sanctified by false prophets. Made cruel by law.
The old Declaration gave us a beginning. A Modern Declaration names the truths our own time has forced into view: that dignity must be equal, that truth is indispensable to liberty, that law without justice becomes domination, and that no person may be made disposable by power.
This is a declaration against the machinery now being built in plain sight: a politics of cruelty, an assault on truth, contempt for expertise, the…
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