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Liberty without Security is just the freedom to starve in the cold. Security without Liberty is mere subsistence - the life of a well-fed prisoner. TrueAmericanism.org

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Nobody hands you tyranny in one piece. They hand it to you one sufferable week at a time — and you call the adjusting "normal." Masked agents. Troops in our cities. No right to clean water. That's not bad luck. It's a design. Where's your line? www.trueamericanism.org/booklet

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I was raised on the radical right. Then I re-read Adams, Paine & Jefferson in their own words. They explicitly warned that concentrated wealth buying political power would destroy the Republic they built. Two hundred and fifty years later — we are fighting that evil.

From John Adams' Thoughts on Government, April 1776: "Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant."

Run into arguments like this? Remember that we have rebuttals to 16 Myths like the Job creator myth. Copy & Paste. www.trueamericanism.org/rebuttals

Said in 2008 or 1837? Put your answer in the comments. Extra credit for who. “These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."

Spent the night writing for Maine. Worth ending on John Adams. 1780, Massachusetts Constitution, in his own hand: Government exists for the safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people — not for the profit of any one man, family, or class. Still in effect. Still waiting on us. trueamericanism.org

"All Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand." — Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, Christmas Day 1783. TrueAmericanism.org

John Adams, spring of 1776, defining "the Pursuit of Happiness" in his own hand: ease, comfort, security As the purpose of government. From the man who put Jefferson in the chair to draft the Declaration weeks later. Full booklet, free: www.trueamericanism.org/booklet

"That government is best which governs least." Jefferson never said it. The line traces to Thoreau, 1849 — 23 years after Jefferson died. Jefferson supported public education, the Louisiana Purchase, federally funded exploration, and progressive wealth taxes. The libertarian Jefferson is a fiction.

If you make the US median of $40k, it takes you 25 years to earn a million dollars. To earn a billion? 25,000 years. No one lives 25,000 years. So whose time built it? Free to read, no signup www.trueAmericanism.org/booklet

The Founders weren't libertarians. They weren't socialists. Adams. Paine. Jefferson. Franklin. They were Americans who built and suggested tools to prevent oligarchy. We simply didn’t use them. Free booklet: TrueAmericanism.org

Government exists for the common good — for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people — and NOT for the profit or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men. — John Adams, Massachusetts Constitution, 1780 TrueAmericanism.org

Liberty isn't just the absence of a master. It's the presence of dignity. Not theoretical rights on paper — practical possibilities in the real world. A shot at a good life for everyone. Not just those with a silver spoon in their mouth. That's what the Founders meant. TrueAmericanism.org

Our representatives should have calluses on their hands, not their hearts. Instead we get soft hands and callused hearts — bought before they announce, funded by billionaires, voting to take food from hungry children. The Founders called this aristocracy. TrueAmericanism.org

Musk. Page. Ellison. Three people. Combined wealth: $1.2 trillion. At median income that's 30.7 million years of human labor. 30.7 million years of stolen labor. Jefferson called this aristocracy. He proposed the remedy in 1785, tax the fuck out of their wealth. TrueAmericanism.org

True Americanism isn't a bridge between left and right. It's a political ideology before left and right. TrueAmericanism.org

Next time someone quotes a Founder against Social Security or taxing the wealthy — send them here. 16 rebuttals. Their actual words. Full context. Copy/paste responses. That's Adams. Paine. Jefferson. Franklin. Free. www.TrueAmericanism.org/rebuttals

In 1992 James Carville said 'It's the economy, stupid.' In 1776 John Adams said government exists to secure ease, comfort and security. 250 years apart. Same answer. Corporate Democrats keep forgetting

Jefferson never said "government best which governs least." Paine proposed Social Security in 1797. Hamilton supported broad federal spending. 16 Founder myths demolished with their actual words. Free at www.TrueAmericanism.org/rebuttals 🇺🇸 #TrueAmericanism #Founders #WeThePeople

938 billionaires hold $8.2 trillion. Sanders wants a 5% tax. They call it radical. Jefferson proposed taxing wealth at rates that ACCELERATE the higher you go (Progressively) in 1785. This was before France collapsed under inequality. Four years later: the French Revolution. Who's the radical?

Pop Quiz: Which Founder proposed a wealth tax that would more aggressive than anything in modern American politics? Hint: He authored the Declaration of Independence www.trueamericanism.org/rebuttals

Which Founder proposed that wealth should be taxed at rates that accelerate the higher you go — more aggressive than anything in modern American politics? Hint: He wrote the Declaration of Independence. Answer — and the 1785 letter that proves it — free at www.trueamericanism.org/rebuttals

Pop quiz: Which Founder proposed universal basic income? Which said property is a social creation? Which defined government as 'ease, comfort, security'? You've been lied to. www.trueamericanism.org/rebuttals

The right didn't steal the Founders. We abandoned them. Adams, Paine & Jefferson built the case for economic justice in 1776. It's time to take it back. Free at TrueAmericanism.org #TrueAmericanism #WeThePeople

Progressive candidates: stop letting the right own the Founders. Adams, Paine & Jefferson already made your argument — in 1776. Learn the language that reaches everyone. Free at TrueAmericanism.org #TrueAmericanism #WeThePeople

Before the "isms," there was the Social Contract. The Founders designed the Republic for the General Welfare—defined as Ease, Comfort, and Security for the people. Stop the Great Diversion. It’s time to fulfill the original promise of the Pursuit of Happiness. 🇺🇸 TrueAmericanism.org

We forget that the Founders designed America for economic security, not oligarchy. John Adams defined the Pursuit of Happiness as 'Ease, Comfort, Security' for the greatest number. This isn't socialism. It's the Founder’s vision . Free download. Read what they actually wrote. TrueAmericanism.org

“Socialism vs. Capitalism” is a diversion keeping us trapped in old battles. Time to return to the Founders’ actual intent: the attainment of Ease, Comfort, and Security for We the People. 🇺🇸 Help get this booklet into candidates' hands to move our country in a better direction. TrueAmericanism.org

"Socialism vs. Capitalism" is a diversion designed to keep us fighting while the vault is emptied. The Founders promised something better: the attainment of Ease, Comfort, & Security—the true "Pursuit of Happiness". Candidates need this blueprint for True Americanism. 🇺🇸 TrueAmericanism.org

The Founders listed 'Standing Armies without Consent' as a crime of King George. In 2025, ICE detention expanded 91% while arrests of people with NO criminal record surged 2,450%. Congress was denied access to facilities. This isn't border security—it's tyranny. TrueAmericanism.org

Sorry I dropped off for a while. In other news there is a new version of my booklet on the website. TrueAmericanism.org

Madison, 1792: government must use "the silent operation of laws" to "reduce extreme wealth towards mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards comfort." The Father of the Constitution. Not a radical. Not a socialist. A Founder. #TrueAmericanism

Samuel Adams, 1780: "If ever vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." He wasn't predicting. He was warning. We weren't listening.

A billion dollars = 25,000 years of human labor. One person. 25,000 lifetimes. That's not success. That's extraction. The Founders had a word for that level of accumulated power over your fellow citizens. They called it tyranny. Learn more at TrueAmericanism.com

Adams envisioned government as creating an environment where the masses could attain ease, comfort, & security. The only thing standing in our way to make this happen is ourselves. We must strip away corporate control that would enslave us all, give the Ultra-Wealthy another dollar & absolute power.