Some would argue further, that the thinking that forms a revolution was not mature until 1789.
The effects of the arguments and efforts required to make a revolutionary mindset certainly occurred well before that.
The machinations that set out to institutionalize the really crappy and at least IMO unconstitutional behaviors of the political class in two pieces of critical legislation seem to me to be part of the early awakening of todays revolutionary thought.
First was the McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill. By the time the bill made it through committee it had been compromised to death. It compromised the constitution and compromised our freedom.
The no child left behind bill, was a measured effort to return to parents the right to educate their children as they saw was in the best interest of the child. What was at stake however was control over the funding for PERS programs, the grant moneys from fed to state based on head counts and the ability of a progressive curriculum to be given more light even above the ideas behind the enlightenment. Ensuing the NCLB bill was set up to fail was IMO the greatest achievement of the Sen. Kennedy. His legacy can thus be summarized as an attempt to deny the American dream to the very people who looked to him for help in finding it. The refusal of government to find and agree in principal, upon a reasonable and constitutional solution to those questions of education and free speech.
The manipulation of a good and competitive system to the detriment of the individual citizen’s ability to decide is the ultimate treason. Intellectually dishonest and ethically abhorrent, the legislative efforts since 2008 have been only confirmed what should have been evident since before Rather-gate.
What was genius about President Bush’s efforts in Iraq was the planting of the seeds of liberty. If successful the revolution of freedom in the Middle East and S Asia will have positive effects on humanity for generations to come. We aren’t finished yet, It isn’t over. Our soldier’s sacrifices for a just and noble cause count for something greater than me.
