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Rasmussen: Americans Still Embrace Ideals from Declaration of Independence
A Rasmussen Report released today, July 3, concludes that Americans in general still hold the ideals reflected in the Declaration of Independence:
Americans are celebrating the nation’s 233rd birthday, and the words of the Declaration of Independence will be heard at countless patriotic ceremonies across the land. The core ideals articulated by those words are still embraced by solid majorities of the American public.
The poll found a consensus-level agreement on the topic of inalienable rights:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 89% of American adults agree that “we are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Only seven percent (7%) disagree on that founding premise.
On the low end, but still with a majority, was the consent-of-the-governed principle:
Fifty-six percent (56%) agree with the view that governments derive their only just authority from the “consent of the governed.” Interestingly, one-in-four Americans (25%) disagree.
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Unfortunately, agreement with ideals doesn’t count for much. Even Obama agrees with those ideals, I think – judging from some very liberal friends of mine. They think freedom is freedom from the tyrrany of corporate America, and that means being anti-capitalist, anti-corporation, and pro the government heavily regulating, or outright managing, “greedy” corporations.
In my mind the Rasmussen poll is pablum, a sop to distract people who are slowly selling themselves into slavery from realizing that they are trading the reality of freedom for the appearance of freedom. It’s very much like people who uphold Christian virtues without seeing any connection to how they decide issues in their everyday lives.
We humans lie to ourselves very easily, and we hate the men and women who call us on our self-deceit.