January 23, 2023

Kamala Harris’s totalitarian take on the Declaration of Independence

By Andrea Widburg at American Thinker:

Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is one of the towering documents in humankind’sdevelopment. Many of us, however, are so used to it as the backdrop of America’s creation that we forget to look at the meaning behind the words, and young people may not even know what it says. But you can be sure that political leftists are fully alive to its meaning. No wonder, then, that Kamala Harris omitted key concepts when she quoted her, allowing her to obscure the document’s profound and expansive view of human rights.

The greater part of the Declaration of Independence is a laundry list of King George III’s failure to observe the inherent rights that the colonists possessed, justifying their declaration of independence from the mother country. However, Jefferson was both a philosopher and a…