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In reply to the discussion: Has anyone actually read the Declaration of Independence? Like the whole thing? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but it's not in the nature of everyone to care about, or even really understand or agree with, such things. Those who think it's too radical now are counterparts of those who felt the very same way 250 years ago. This isn't all about ignorance. Many people do not agree with liberal principles.
We're learning that the embedding of important political principles in popular culture that conflict with people's own natures is far more shallow and fragile than realized. In any case, the less that liberal ideas feel right in people's guts and minds, the less they're likely to listen to, understand, and remember what they were assumed to learn in school.
Btw, the Dec is nothing to holy books. Probably a billion people know lack of capacity for religious faith is a dreadful, crippling flaw at best, something critical to being a worthy, moral person missing. Religious people would feel elevating the Dec above the Bible revealed a tragic lack of understanding and wisdom, and/or was amusing, according to their natures.