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Walter Russell Mead imagines the Declaration of Independence if it were written by American elites today: The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen Post-Colonial, Multi-Racial Societes of North America When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to strengthen the political bands which have connected them with the Global Community, and […]

Walter Russell Mead imagines the Declaration of Independence if it were written by American elites today:

The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen Post-Colonial, Multi-Racial Societes of North America

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to strengthen the political bands which have connected them with the Global Community, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the cooperative and deferential station which a careful review of the relevant peer reviewed literature suggests is most appropriate for long term win-win outcomes, a decent and rigorously equal respect to the opinions of woman- and man- and transkind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the ever deeper union.

More here. Heh.

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