SEARCHING for AMERICA with SPRINGSTEEN
The America that you are searching for is not hard to find. Just look for individual freedom. That is the American Dream and Promise.
If you protest that we are gradually losing that dream to an authoritarian socialist system; I tend to agree with you. If you think that has anything to do with the Great Depression, Guthrie or the Dust Bowl; I think you are just another empty suit trying to sell a song... to make a buck.
If you protest the entertainment industrythat sells all that is good as bad; that sells all that is bad as good; I tend to agree with you. If you think that has anything to do with Vietnam, I would think you were just another airhead filling a vast space that should be occupied with something better, something much better.
If you protest the public education system that destroys the liberalism of the Founding Fathers to re-write the future as a authoritarian socialist state; I tend to agree with you. If you think that has anything to do with Iraq you have already raised the white flag to those who would re-wite our history for their own self serving purpose. A fools song no doubt !
Letter by Lightfoot to BS
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"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Those ideas are the influence of the liberal philosopher John Loke. Thomas Jefferson was greatly influenced by Loke in the Declaration and the Bill of Rights.