Posted by Jay Livingston
For decades, liberals have let conservatives win the game of capture the flag. Lefties didn’t even bother to get in the game.
Things may be changing.
I went to a Fourth of July celebration in Lenox, MA – a reading of the Declaration of Independence. Twenty or more readers, each taking the mike and reading a few phrases. Here’s one of the readers.
How liberal is Lenox? The guy sitting beside me said that the when the readers came to the list of grievances against the king, instead of saying “he,” they should have just said “George.” Indeed, at those passages that had contemporary overtones, the crowd applauded enthusiastically (“He has made judges dependent on his will alone”). The one about the “merciless Indian savages” evoked a collective discomfort – silent but palpable nevertheless.
How liberal is Lenox? This Prius with a peace symbol on the gas tank is right at home.
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