Quote from ratboy88:
americans have been dumbed down to the point where not only would less than 2% of the population recognize these great words, the other 98% when hearing them could easily be convinced they were uttered by a terrorist and represent hate speech.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
it is sad but ET is a microcosm of today's society at large. posters like neodork, vermin77, and captainstupid, were never introduced to these great documents and truly do not understand their meaning. they think by agreeing with bill oreilly's jingoistic blathering they are the cutting edge.