Thaddeus McCotter writes for American Greatness about the importance of studying lessons from the nation’s history.
Once more in these trying times, Americans are compelled to recognize and reflect upon the lessons of history.
First, we are compelled to note the danger posed by the radical Left that has pledged its allegiance to ideology over country, rejecting any shard of patriotism for our free republic and shredding the governing paradigm that has united us as sovereign citizens.
What has traditionally united us as Americans is the recognition that our inspired experiment in self-government is a sacred undertaking. Further, we recognize that each succeeding generational calibration of the tension between liberty and equality, while often arduous, is a necessary, noble pursuit made possible, in large part, by equal justice under law. (The expansion and improvement of this legal equality being one of most significant advances accomplished by succeeding generations of Americans.)
Indeed, the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution, issues us a challenge to forge a “more perfect union.” Behind this is the eminently practical realization that no nation comprised of frail, flawed human beings can ever be perfected. Yet, amid an environment of ordered liberty and equal justice under the law, our union can certainly be made less imperfect. That liberty, equality, and the oft-contentious relationship between the two is incapable of being perfected is inarguable to rational minds. It is also true, however, that they can be and have been improved, promoted, and protected in creating a “more perfect union.”
Thus, a governing paradigm in which Americans operated evolved from the beginning: America was an imperfect free republic that was, nonetheless, great, in that it possessed the requisite conditions to continually forge a better future for all—i.e., a “more perfect union.”
Today’s Left denies this is possible and, believing our nation as constituted is irredeemable, has shredded the governing paradigm that has united Americans to impose its radical agenda upon their fellow citizens.
