When I looked at the CNN graph about being a proud American, I can see the percentages of how well propaganda works and with which group it is so successful with. This extends out over many subjects and issues that have confronted our society for decades, take Covid for instance. Those percentages probably parallel people that believe the media and the lefts lies about the pandemic and the vaccine.
In my opinion we all should look at things with a critical eye. I personally don’t idolize anyone. We all should learn from our mistakes. And we all should take what we learn, keep moving forward, and not repeat those same mistakes. There’s a reason why a windshield on a car is larger than the rear window.
I’m going to go out of my way this year on the 250th 4th of July and extra enjoy Americas founding. The world would have been lost many times over without America and Patriotic Americans! The American Founders blessed the world with their brilliance.
In present circumstances, the old expressed sentiments of the late Ted Turner, founder of CNN, bear a new weight. He thought there were too many people on the planet. Whenever I heard this back in the day, I chalked it up to harmless musings of a billionaire "philanthropist." Such musings seem a little less abstract now.
Fix it? Why? We are the envy of the world. Time to tell off these America-hating Democrats. Don't like America? Fine. Leave. We have no more patience or tolerance for your stupid bullshit Let's be honest. They are not "the loyal opposition." They are a fifth column of traitors. Treat them accordingly.
I thoroughly enjoy watching video commentaries of FIFA World Cup visitors describing how they are finding the USA; surprised at how kindly they have been treated by Americans and the freedom, liberty, and lifestyle that we have been blessed with. What they expected from what they've read and seen in the media is completely opposite to what they are experiencing. Makes me even more patriotic and thankful.
Glad to see their enjoyment and amazement. Here's hoping they take all the positives about our beautiful country home and ruminate while enjoying all that Ranch Dressing!
I did catch a few “seconds” of her in LA? For what, I don’t now, but Fox reported she had some face surgery…I wish she would leave & stay out of the lime-light, ‘cause I don’t care what she has to say! MUTE.!!!
Yes, the last news on Rosie O’Donnell- she evidently didn’t have ancestors in Ireland, & I thought she had to leave. Maybe she went to Scotland for a brief time? Not sure on that either.
As long as she stays silent and elsewhere I don’t really care. Like Alec Baldwin’s opinions on anything. You’re irrelevant, please be quiet and respect my hearing. 😂
Case in point..... Tulsi's release of the intel re Fauci implicated him in perjury and perhaps even treason. Certainly, giving aid and comfort to the ChiComs, who loosed Covid on an unsuspecting world. And yet, there is a fear that, if an indictment is brought in DC, the Democrats likely to serve on a grand jury will protect the little criminal. And then there is the "pardon" conferred on him by the Senile Imbecile. When the only way to achieve justice might be to take it into our own hands, we have reached a very sorry turn of events.
For the sake of political advantage the myth has been promulgated that slavery is and was a race based operation, and that we in America are inherently racist, a useful political tool.
"Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks." ~ Thomas Sowell
There’s another idea seeping in - the idea that racism isn’t merely seeing the world through a prism of skin color, but rather if you are minority, by (the new definition) you cannot be a racist. And whites are, due to their skin color, racist. What a bizzaro world.
As the democrats still give lip service to Martin Luther King on his national holiday, but have completely forgotten his I had a dream speech. They now judge everyone by the color of their skin
The hypocrisy is astounding, right? Evidence that the brainwashing has worked...I have seen it personally and in govt.
In 2023, Boston Mayor Wu was caught hosting a non-white elected official party (see https://apnews.com/article/holiday-party-elected-officials-color-boston-wu-708c23f6c43d55f478387d0e4d9af74d). One city councilor defended it saying, “I think somebody wanted to make this an inflammatory issue and they’ve clearly succeeded." The AP referred to the outrage as "a fuss." Wu also implemented vaccine mandates during Covid, conditioning entry to public spaces like museums.
I realize my criticism here is focusing on the negative, division...
Sadly also, a good friend admitted, during an intense conversation about the validity of critical race theory in schools, that she believed me to be racist solely due to my "white" skin color. My desire to spend time with her has since deflated, but I know a year or so later that I have to rise above this difference in belief systems....Find the God way and walk it. She, otherwise, is someone I admire and I have very much enjoyed our time spent together. But I see how her education and the progressive communities in which she has lived have helped shape this perspective.
It's difficult, but it's actually in the Bible, to separate ourselves from what I call, poison people. Telling them why, is difficult, but I think is also, usually, required. That's what I pray for, the guts, wisdom to know how, when.
we are all a peachy tint of brown (the color of melanin). except albinos. but they are persons also endowed with rights, even despite a melanin deficiency! USA- committed to preserving the rights of ALL PERSONS... and the government is SUPPOSED to protect them, not take them!
Can I get reparations for all my tax money that went to welfare and illegal aliens, not because i am "not black", but because i am an enslaved American taxpayer?? Americans- working for elitist causes supporting technocratic feudalism since 1913. Repeal the Fed Reserve Act!!
If we focus on one "race" based on skin color (as our detractors desire), we will all lose the great country we have now.
The Barbary pirates cruised the coasts stealing and selling whites, blacks, whatever they could find for slaves. There was big money in it. If the families had any money they could pay the ransom and get their family member back, otherwise the captive was a slave for life. Many of the tribes sold their own people into slavery. Here in America the indigenous tribes warred with one another and took prisoners and made them slaves. It was one of the biggest and oldest trades on this planet, and it still exists in some countries.
Well said. This vision of self governing republic with rights being acknowledged from God is the core of our Founders and Framers life and work which we have drifted from in our centralized state. The birthday is good. How we have wandered away from the mind of our ancestors into a democracy not so much.
your essay is so well written that i am taking the liberty of "borrowing" a paragraph for a dramatic reading i'm doing on the evening of july fourth at gadsby's tavern in old town alexandria. it's plagiarism, yes, but with a good heart and honest intention. the event is a private party and the tavern's seating capacity is limited, but i feel the obligation to let you know.
"One of the most overlooked facts about the year 1619 is that Black Africans represented only a tiny fraction of the unfree labor force in the English colonies that would later become the United States. The approximately 20 to 30 Africans who arrived in Virginia that year were vastly outnumbered by English and other European indentured servants, who constituted the overwhelming majority of bound laborers.
Although precise records do not exist, historians generally agree that well over 95 percent of unfree laborers in 1619 were not Black."
We found our family's ship manifest from 1634. It left from Ipswitch, England. On board were our ancestors with a 2 year old named John Lewis, my brothers name today. And we found another child named John Woodward, my sons name today. The Lewis's and the Woodward's were on the same ship, 400 years ago.
I signed up with Familysearch.org several years ago, & I enjoy the historic articles about many of my great grandfather’s & grandmother’s, that were part of our history of America.
I am a 1st generation American on my father's side. He was born in Bergen Norway in 1919 and came to Michigan to finish college in 1946. My mother's side came here after the Prussian War in the 1860s.
My Dad died thinking he was Welch, he began the search over 30 years ago. My brother, John Lewis, picked up where he left off, finding a great contact in our family line that corrected the record, he wrote a book, we were English.
That is so cool! My Dad & Mom always told my sister & I, we were Irish & German; but, in 2019 I had my maternal DNA (MTDNA) completed, & her DNA is called Haplogroup H1 (which didn’t mean anything to me-yet). My family ancestry (Autosomal DNA), is 18.3% Ireland; 14.2% Southeast England, & 9.7% Central England; plus 13 others. So, we’re kind of like “Mutts”…LOL!
There you go again...speaking/writing truth...don't you know truth is dangerous!!! Truth destroys the lies of the left. The talk of slavery may never end as the left likes to keep it alive as it polarizes the ignorant.
Jeffrey Tucker's elegant and beautiful new book, "The Spirits of America", makes a wonderful and kind gift to celebrate our inheritance of something precious, a culture that has evolved and learned to thrive in the liberty of each of us to serve and be served by every other one of us, by agreement, and never by force. Jeffrey's book tells us how this is, and does so with no harsh political language, making it something anyone can give to anyone, with hope that it may become the basis of life supporting conversation. Pavel Durov, discussing the sinking of our civilization, tells us to "fix this ship". Tucker's book can help, as has every word Robert W. Malone has written since he was exiled (from realms of increasingly dangerous authority) for daring to notice the truth, ask about what he was seeing, and start exploring how to fix it.
Thank-you so much for this incredibly well-stated summary of our country. I could not agree more. The unacknowledged truth is that the first Africans to arrive at the Jamestown colony "were in fact, former slaves captured by an English privateer ship from Portuguese slave ships at sea, and they were traded for food & water. In that trade, the Africans were accepted by the Jamestown colonists as indentured servants, with a status equal to the English, Scottish, & Irish-born indentured servants who also came to America in this time frame. The status of indentured servants meant that freedom was granted after their indenture or bond was completed - generally a term of four to seven years. The slave trade did later come to Virginia around 1650, but not in the time & way of the common narrative surrounding Jamestown, which does not in any way diminish the problem or excuse the institution of slavery in early America". (from "Rediscovering America" by Scott S. Powell). It seems to me that Nikole Hannah-Jones & her "1619 Project" & the "Avenging the Ancestors Coalition" need to revisit our early American history.
Another great book, about our Constitution is, "A Brilliant Solution" - Inventing the American Constitution", by Carol Berkin (2003). I highly recommend it. Those on the Left, who keep disparaging our country, also need to be reminded of whom, precisely, has been responsible for the harming, suppressing, & denigrating African Americans. This is a terrific brief PragerU video by Carol Swain to remind us of that reality..https://www.prageru.com/videos/inconvenient-truth-about-the-democratic-party
There has always,been an under class here who persist in thinking European culture is superior to ours harkening back to those who opposed our leaving English rule but remained after our secession and became the focus of disapproval of every aspect of our culture except of course becoming exorbitantly wealthy from its rewards
2.6 million Americans (8% of the total population) fought for the Union to abolish slavery in the Civil War. More than half a million Americans (Union) died or were wounded fighting to end slavery (360,000 dead, 275,000 wounded). The Civil War resulted in the 13th (abolished slavery), 14th (granted citizenship, equal protection, due process), and 15th (guaranteed right to vote regardless of race) Amendments to the Constitution. This all occurred within 80 years of the Constitution's ratification -- a single person's lifetime. Another lifetime after saw the 19th (granted women voting rights, 1920) and 24th (abolished poll taxes, 1964) Amendments, along with the Civil Rights (1964) and Voting Rights (1965) Acts. In just two lifetimes, America has become the envy of the world in freedom, equality and prosperity.
When I looked at the CNN graph about being a proud American, I can see the percentages of how well propaganda works and with which group it is so successful with. This extends out over many subjects and issues that have confronted our society for decades, take Covid for instance. Those percentages probably parallel people that believe the media and the lefts lies about the pandemic and the vaccine.
In my opinion we all should look at things with a critical eye. I personally don’t idolize anyone. We all should learn from our mistakes. And we all should take what we learn, keep moving forward, and not repeat those same mistakes. There’s a reason why a windshield on a car is larger than the rear window.
I’m going to go out of my way this year on the 250th 4th of July and extra enjoy Americas founding. The world would have been lost many times over without America and Patriotic Americans! The American Founders blessed the world with their brilliance.
In present circumstances, the old expressed sentiments of the late Ted Turner, founder of CNN, bear a new weight. He thought there were too many people on the planet. Whenever I heard this back in the day, I chalked it up to harmless musings of a billionaire "philanthropist." Such musings seem a little less abstract now.
Was not EVERY "New World " colonist in 1619 a SUBJECT to The CROWN of ENGLAND?
No question or argument about the past 250 years of a superior standard.
However the pride and tide is being stealth altered increasingly.
Our America is under the pressure and in the Shotgun sights of China.
The population of China is 1.4 billion residents (India has 1.5) and increasing.
All of these folks look to the USA as the dream of a lifetime to emulate as a lifestyle.
If you can imagine the untold volumes of total resources to achieve this is impossible.
Yet this persists. Picture all 1.4 billion residents living to an exact standard we live 2026.
Iran spent 90% of the immense oil profits on war machinery.
China spends at least 50% of the profits of throw away imported toy plastics garbage.
That Americans can't seem to get enough of for decades, with reckless abandons.
China is about to set the stage on us soon. As they have been taking notes for WW3.
If America has reached the ripe old age of 250 on this planet.
We just were extremely lucky, as far as dominance goes.
Trusting other nations could not replicate and steal our technologies was arrogance.
We are about to be challenged and no amount of money spent will defend the Nation.
Amen, James.
Fix it? Why? We are the envy of the world. Time to tell off these America-hating Democrats. Don't like America? Fine. Leave. We have no more patience or tolerance for your stupid bullshit Let's be honest. They are not "the loyal opposition." They are a fifth column of traitors. Treat them accordingly.
I thoroughly enjoy watching video commentaries of FIFA World Cup visitors describing how they are finding the USA; surprised at how kindly they have been treated by Americans and the freedom, liberty, and lifestyle that we have been blessed with. What they expected from what they've read and seen in the media is completely opposite to what they are experiencing. Makes me even more patriotic and thankful.
They are truly amazed at our grocery stores.
Glad to see their enjoyment and amazement. Here's hoping they take all the positives about our beautiful country home and ruminate while enjoying all that Ranch Dressing!
Amen! My thoughts have always been, to & for those “haters of America”: pack your bags, & leave! Find a country that better “suits your agenda”.
Rosie O’donnel did just that. I feel for Ireland though…
The bitch is back. They never keep their promises, do they?
I did catch a few “seconds” of her in LA? For what, I don’t now, but Fox reported she had some face surgery…I wish she would leave & stay out of the lime-light, ‘cause I don’t care what she has to say! MUTE.!!!
Yes, the last news on Rosie O’Donnell- she evidently didn’t have ancestors in Ireland, & I thought she had to leave. Maybe she went to Scotland for a brief time? Not sure on that either.
As long as she stays silent and elsewhere I don’t really care. Like Alec Baldwin’s opinions on anything. You’re irrelevant, please be quiet and respect my hearing. 😂
Yup, we need our own Great Replacement.
Case in point..... Tulsi's release of the intel re Fauci implicated him in perjury and perhaps even treason. Certainly, giving aid and comfort to the ChiComs, who loosed Covid on an unsuspecting world. And yet, there is a fear that, if an indictment is brought in DC, the Democrats likely to serve on a grand jury will protect the little criminal. And then there is the "pardon" conferred on him by the Senile Imbecile. When the only way to achieve justice might be to take it into our own hands, we have reached a very sorry turn of events.
The military is the only way.
For the sake of political advantage the myth has been promulgated that slavery is and was a race based operation, and that we in America are inherently racist, a useful political tool.
"Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks." ~ Thomas Sowell
There’s another idea seeping in - the idea that racism isn’t merely seeing the world through a prism of skin color, but rather if you are minority, by (the new definition) you cannot be a racist. And whites are, due to their skin color, racist. What a bizzaro world.
As the democrats still give lip service to Martin Luther King on his national holiday, but have completely forgotten his I had a dream speech. They now judge everyone by the color of their skin
They are quietly canceling him because of his belief in “….. a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream….”
In what dream is the Left’s dream deeply rooted? All that comes to mind is Carl Jung:
The roots of the Human Shadow extend all the way to Hell.
Rock on Docs and Patriots!
The hypocrisy is astounding, right? Evidence that the brainwashing has worked...I have seen it personally and in govt.
In 2023, Boston Mayor Wu was caught hosting a non-white elected official party (see https://apnews.com/article/holiday-party-elected-officials-color-boston-wu-708c23f6c43d55f478387d0e4d9af74d). One city councilor defended it saying, “I think somebody wanted to make this an inflammatory issue and they’ve clearly succeeded." The AP referred to the outrage as "a fuss." Wu also implemented vaccine mandates during Covid, conditioning entry to public spaces like museums.
I realize my criticism here is focusing on the negative, division...
Sadly also, a good friend admitted, during an intense conversation about the validity of critical race theory in schools, that she believed me to be racist solely due to my "white" skin color. My desire to spend time with her has since deflated, but I know a year or so later that I have to rise above this difference in belief systems....Find the God way and walk it. She, otherwise, is someone I admire and I have very much enjoyed our time spent together. But I see how her education and the progressive communities in which she has lived have helped shape this perspective.
What to do besides pray for unity?
so people weren't invited because of their skin color. the DEFINITION of racism. hypocrites.
It's difficult, but it's actually in the Bible, to separate ourselves from what I call, poison people. Telling them why, is difficult, but I think is also, usually, required. That's what I pray for, the guts, wisdom to know how, when.
we are all a peachy tint of brown (the color of melanin). except albinos. but they are persons also endowed with rights, even despite a melanin deficiency! USA- committed to preserving the rights of ALL PERSONS... and the government is SUPPOSED to protect them, not take them!
You haven't heard JOYLESS REID LATELY? same old schtick different day
Sorry, I seem to have missed that. You might think that overtime it would lose its appeal, but apparently they think it is still working.
Indeed. Anyway, is it skin color or cultural differences?
The left uses skin color as it's easy to then separate people.
Can I get reparations for all my tax money that went to welfare and illegal aliens, not because i am "not black", but because i am an enslaved American taxpayer?? Americans- working for elitist causes supporting technocratic feudalism since 1913. Repeal the Fed Reserve Act!!
If we focus on one "race" based on skin color (as our detractors desire), we will all lose the great country we have now.
Agree...speaking truth...truth is dangerous as it successfully challenges false narratives.
Agreed
The Barbary pirates cruised the coasts stealing and selling whites, blacks, whatever they could find for slaves. There was big money in it. If the families had any money they could pay the ransom and get their family member back, otherwise the captive was a slave for life. Many of the tribes sold their own people into slavery. Here in America the indigenous tribes warred with one another and took prisoners and made them slaves. It was one of the biggest and oldest trades on this planet, and it still exists in some countries.
Well said. This vision of self governing republic with rights being acknowledged from God is the core of our Founders and Framers life and work which we have drifted from in our centralized state. The birthday is good. How we have wandered away from the mind of our ancestors into a democracy not so much.
Progressives is the answer to your question. Been underminining our Constitution for well over a century and still going strong.
Onset date 1860’s.
Bunch of failed 1848 German socialist revolutionaries came here calling themselves 48ers and participated in creation of Progressive party in Wis.
Read “Lincoln Uber Alles” by John Avery Emison. He covers this Marxist immigration well. Lincoln appointed a Marxist to his cabinet.
really. well I will look at that another day. :)
Amen!! Sharing this widely!
Happy Birthday America! I'm happy and proud of the opportunities here and I still strongly believe this is a great nation!
And this article is why I subscribe to your “thoughts”. Thank You. And may our gracious God continue to abundantly bless you!
dear jgm/rwm,
your essay is so well written that i am taking the liberty of "borrowing" a paragraph for a dramatic reading i'm doing on the evening of july fourth at gadsby's tavern in old town alexandria. it's plagiarism, yes, but with a good heart and honest intention. the event is a private party and the tavern's seating capacity is limited, but i feel the obligation to let you know.
cheers.
peter heinlein
I was thinking that too. Just give credit where due.
Very good essay Drs. M.
Yes, we had slavery when our country began.
Tell me a country or people who have never had slavery.
Then tell me another country that had a civil war to end slavery.
"One of the most overlooked facts about the year 1619 is that Black Africans represented only a tiny fraction of the unfree labor force in the English colonies that would later become the United States. The approximately 20 to 30 Africans who arrived in Virginia that year were vastly outnumbered by English and other European indentured servants, who constituted the overwhelming majority of bound laborers.
Although precise records do not exist, historians generally agree that well over 95 percent of unfree laborers in 1619 were not Black."
We found our family's ship manifest from 1634. It left from Ipswitch, England. On board were our ancestors with a 2 year old named John Lewis, my brothers name today. And we found another child named John Woodward, my sons name today. The Lewis's and the Woodward's were on the same ship, 400 years ago.
I signed up with Familysearch.org several years ago, & I enjoy the historic articles about many of my great grandfather’s & grandmother’s, that were part of our history of America.
I am a 1st generation American on my father's side. He was born in Bergen Norway in 1919 and came to Michigan to finish college in 1946. My mother's side came here after the Prussian War in the 1860s.
My Dad died thinking he was Welch, he began the search over 30 years ago. My brother, John Lewis, picked up where he left off, finding a great contact in our family line that corrected the record, he wrote a book, we were English.
My children's DNA all came back 86% English.
That is so cool! My Dad & Mom always told my sister & I, we were Irish & German; but, in 2019 I had my maternal DNA (MTDNA) completed, & her DNA is called Haplogroup H1 (which didn’t mean anything to me-yet). My family ancestry (Autosomal DNA), is 18.3% Ireland; 14.2% Southeast England, & 9.7% Central England; plus 13 others. So, we’re kind of like “Mutts”…LOL!
There you go again...speaking/writing truth...don't you know truth is dangerous!!! Truth destroys the lies of the left. The talk of slavery may never end as the left likes to keep it alive as it polarizes the ignorant.
Also, they stupidly chose 1619, when there were plenty of landings, by the Spanish in Florida, much earlier.
To me, the 1619 project is purposely, stupid. Stupid teaches Stupid, creating weak minds, weak people, easy prey.
To the Doctors Malone,
God has blessed us all with your presence, wisdom, humor and determination. May we rise up to do our part.
God bless and keep you as you continue to inspire all of us.
Ever grateful and with much admiration.
So beautifully stated. Thank you and God bless America.
Jeffrey Tucker's elegant and beautiful new book, "The Spirits of America", makes a wonderful and kind gift to celebrate our inheritance of something precious, a culture that has evolved and learned to thrive in the liberty of each of us to serve and be served by every other one of us, by agreement, and never by force. Jeffrey's book tells us how this is, and does so with no harsh political language, making it something anyone can give to anyone, with hope that it may become the basis of life supporting conversation. Pavel Durov, discussing the sinking of our civilization, tells us to "fix this ship". Tucker's book can help, as has every word Robert W. Malone has written since he was exiled (from realms of increasingly dangerous authority) for daring to notice the truth, ask about what he was seeing, and start exploring how to fix it.
Thank-you so much for this incredibly well-stated summary of our country. I could not agree more. The unacknowledged truth is that the first Africans to arrive at the Jamestown colony "were in fact, former slaves captured by an English privateer ship from Portuguese slave ships at sea, and they were traded for food & water. In that trade, the Africans were accepted by the Jamestown colonists as indentured servants, with a status equal to the English, Scottish, & Irish-born indentured servants who also came to America in this time frame. The status of indentured servants meant that freedom was granted after their indenture or bond was completed - generally a term of four to seven years. The slave trade did later come to Virginia around 1650, but not in the time & way of the common narrative surrounding Jamestown, which does not in any way diminish the problem or excuse the institution of slavery in early America". (from "Rediscovering America" by Scott S. Powell). It seems to me that Nikole Hannah-Jones & her "1619 Project" & the "Avenging the Ancestors Coalition" need to revisit our early American history.
Another great book, about our Constitution is, "A Brilliant Solution" - Inventing the American Constitution", by Carol Berkin (2003). I highly recommend it. Those on the Left, who keep disparaging our country, also need to be reminded of whom, precisely, has been responsible for the harming, suppressing, & denigrating African Americans. This is a terrific brief PragerU video by Carol Swain to remind us of that reality..https://www.prageru.com/videos/inconvenient-truth-about-the-democratic-party
There has always,been an under class here who persist in thinking European culture is superior to ours harkening back to those who opposed our leaving English rule but remained after our secession and became the focus of disapproval of every aspect of our culture except of course becoming exorbitantly wealthy from its rewards
This article should be required reading in a High School civics course. But, I doubt most Public Schools would do that.
2.6 million Americans (8% of the total population) fought for the Union to abolish slavery in the Civil War. More than half a million Americans (Union) died or were wounded fighting to end slavery (360,000 dead, 275,000 wounded). The Civil War resulted in the 13th (abolished slavery), 14th (granted citizenship, equal protection, due process), and 15th (guaranteed right to vote regardless of race) Amendments to the Constitution. This all occurred within 80 years of the Constitution's ratification -- a single person's lifetime. Another lifetime after saw the 19th (granted women voting rights, 1920) and 24th (abolished poll taxes, 1964) Amendments, along with the Civil Rights (1964) and Voting Rights (1965) Acts. In just two lifetimes, America has become the envy of the world in freedom, equality and prosperity.