In 1868, on this day, after a bloody conflict, we ratified the 14th amendment.
A fundamental statement of America, it defined equality of all individuals under the law.
Today we fight a movement who uses division, favoritism and demonization to redistribute freedom and wealth from one group to another while espousing the principles won with the lives of many.
Conservatives seem to have gotten their image of equality under the law wrong for many , while being the true believers in it, while their adversaries oppose it while having the image of embrace.
I would suggest that our side embrace this principle for real, make it the sword and shield for all things in the future. Citizens equal under the law. No special rights by birth, victimhood or wealth or federal employee or not.
The other reason to celebrate this day is 1978, Animal House was released to theatres.



Hmmm. TKC, you may have crossed the line by posting my favorite scene of my FAVORITE movie ever in a … foreign language.
This is the proper version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vtWB4owdE
We have to work on messaging. It is too easy for the other side to see this as being unkind instead of fair.
Huh? Je ne comprends pas.
yes, we do. I am tired of losing the image war to statist totalitarians who hate most Americans.
It means we shoot every professional pundit who drips disdain for populism and everyone who tries to sound like Bill Buckley without his brains.
More Andrew Brietbarts and fewer Egg McMuffins.
The other side won a lot of their battles through entertainment. Maybe we should flip things and show little vignettes of how our side has made a difference. Subtly bring out the differences. Anger does not sell well.
Andrew Breitbart called this election. We would win by having someone from the popular culture. Culture will always win over politics.
Politics done well is persuasion, done poorly is brute force.
Culture is persuasion at it’s core.
Most humans in groups are exercises in persuasion.
Sometimes we persuade with a kiss, sometimes with an idea, sometimes with a scent and sometimes with a club to the head.
Now that I’ve recovered from the shock of watching Animal House in a gasp… foreign language, I would add quite seriously that Dime is 100% right that “Culture will always win over politics.”
The 2016 voters certainly validated this point quite nicely with NO help from politicos or the MSM.
Hey, maybe those Founders knew a lot more about the unwashed masses than we thought. (Hamilton may have been the exception; he was a true elitist, but a brilliant one nonetheless.)
I’m convinced that Trump’s base and even his reluctant supporters will help him more than we think in the next 6-12 months.
Not to mention, I thought it was a brilliant ploy to sick the fabulous Ivanka on that vain little boy in Canada playing at PM who may now think more carefully before he speaks out against her father. I may start calling the ‘IT’ girl “Agent 99.” :)