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I won't lie. Between all the madness happening in Russia, the middle east and here at home, it's easy to get distracted and beat down. I work in the news business so I know full well how depressing it can be seeing what's happening all around us. I know it all too well.
Add to that the announcement yesterday that liberal non-Republican Republican Jeb Bush announced an intention to run for President and it feels like salt in a wound. And the triple whammy is John Boehner's nasty betrayal of voters just a month after a massive landslide election win for Republicans.
Look, I know a lot of you want to wave the white flag and head for the hills. God knows I've thought about it many times. But let me remind you of a simple fact in our History that changed everything.
3%.
That's right. Only 3% of American colonists were all in during the American revolution. Some 30% were loyalists to the crown, 30% were sympathetic to the revolutionary cause, and the rest were neutral.
Again, 3%. Or, as "three percenters" like to put it... III%.
As enticing as it is to wave the white flag and give up, I'm American. It's not in my core being to give up. Ever.
- Из рассылки "Либертиньюс". Особенно актуально про "3%".
Add to that the announcement yesterday that liberal non-Republican Republican Jeb Bush announced an intention to run for President and it feels like salt in a wound. And the triple whammy is John Boehner's nasty betrayal of voters just a month after a massive landslide election win for Republicans.
Look, I know a lot of you want to wave the white flag and head for the hills. God knows I've thought about it many times. But let me remind you of a simple fact in our History that changed everything.
3%.
That's right. Only 3% of American colonists were all in during the American revolution. Some 30% were loyalists to the crown, 30% were sympathetic to the revolutionary cause, and the rest were neutral.
Again, 3%. Or, as "three percenters" like to put it... III%.
As enticing as it is to wave the white flag and give up, I'm American. It's not in my core being to give up. Ever.
- Из рассылки "Либертиньюс". Особенно актуально про "3%".
