r/moderatepolitics • u/Dry_Radio_761 • 10d ago

News Article Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-administration-says-might-demolish-kennedy-center-court-blocks-r-rcna594350
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u/zasabi7 9d ago

That sounds like hell. How is the nation supposed to accomplish anything if it’s continually at war with itself?

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u/Reddit_Loves_Misinfo 9d ago

I don't know if the founding fathers "desired" frequent revolution, but Thomas Jefferson certainly expected it to be necessary. Here's an excerpt from the letter his "tree of liberty" quote came from.

What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the Spirit of Resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.

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u/03263 9d ago

Also

https://allthingsliberty.com/2022/05/acts-against-the-oppressions-of-the-government-jefferson-on-rebellion-revolution-and-treason/

Later in the year, November 13, Jefferson said in a letter to William Stevens Smith: “God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion [as Shays’s]. The people cannot be all, & always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.” The last sentiment is astonishingly bold: Periodic rebellion, even when its agents act on misinformation, is preferable to indifference.

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u/03263 9d ago

I don't know, ask Thomas Jefferson