ON SUNDAY, HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.
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>> GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO
"FOX NEWS PRIMETIME," I’M BEEN
DOMINANT >> 401 YEARS AGO THIS
MONTH A GROUP OF COURAGEOUS
PILGRIMS CROSSED THE ATLANTIC, T
WAS THE MAYFLOWER.
BOLD, DARING, FOOLISH, DEVOUT,
ESSENTIAL TO THE FOUNDING OF A
NEW NATION THAT WOULD BECOME THE
ENVY OF THE WORLD.
THE YEAR WAS 1620.
EUROPE WAS BEGINNING A 30-YEAR
RELIGIOUS WAR THAT WOULD RAISE
ITS CITIES, STARVE ITS CITIZENS,
UNLEASH PLAGUES AND TAKE KINGS.
THEY SET THEIR BACKS TO THE OLD
WAVES AND THAT THERE LIVES AND
FAMILIES ON AMERICA PICKLE WAS
STARTED IN PLYMOUTH CHANGE THE
WORLD AND CHANGED FOR THE
BETTER, IT WAS AN AUDACIOUS
EFFORT, A GROUP OF ZEALOUS
RELIGIOUS MEN AND WOMEN PUT ALL
THEIR RESOURCES CREATING A NEW
COMMUNITY AND A NEW LAND, THEY
MIGHT AS WELL HAVE BEEN THE
FIRST EXPLORERS TO SET FOOT ON
MARS.
THESE CHARACTERISTICS ARE
ESSENTIAL TO UNDERSTANDING THE
AMERICAN FOUNDING AND PROVIDE
THE BASIS OF SO MUCH OF WHAT
MAKES THIS COUNTRY GREAT.
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" 6019
PROJECT AND ITS AWARD-WINNING
AND CONTROVERSIAL CREATOR NICOLE
HANNAH JONES ARE OUT WITH THE
BOOK THIS WEEK.
IT IS NOT WORTH ADDRESSING
BECAUSE IT IS SELF REFUTING WHEN
YOU ASSEMBLE AN ENTIRE PROJECT
AROUND THE DEMONSTRABLY FALSE
IDEA THAT PRESERVING SLAVERY WAS
THE PRIMARY MOTIVATION FOR THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AROUND THE
AUDACIOUS CLAIM THAT OUR TRUE
FOUNDING IS 1619, NOT 1776 AND
RETRACT OR ELIMINATE BOTH CLAIMS
WHILE PRETENDING THEY WERE NEVER
MADE, THERE IS LITTLE MORE
OTHERS CAN ADD EXCEPT TO
ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT IS BY NOW PLAIN
FOR ALL TO SEE, THE PURPOSE OF
THE 6019 PROJECT IS NOT TO TEACH
HISTORY BUT TO PROPAGANDIZE.
THE TRUE AMERICAN FOUNDING IS IN
1776.
THERE SHOULD BE NO HISTORICAL
DISPUTE ABOUT IT.
THE IDEAS ASSEMBLED IN THAT
SINGULAR YEAR WERE OF SUCH A
UNIQUE COMBINATION AND
IMPORTANCE IN HUMAN HISTORY, YOU
MUST PLAY CONTRARIAN GAMES TO
INSIST OTHERWISE.
I SUGGEST TO YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT
1620 AMIDST A TIME OF CONSTANT
HISTORICAL REVISIONISM IS THAT
IT REPRESENTS NOT JUST A
CONVENIENT MYTH ABOUT THE NATION
BUT SOMETHING THAT WAS ESSENTIAL
TO OUR FOUNDING.
WE FIND IN THE RISK-TAKING
CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE WHO
CROSSED THE WINE DARK SEA OF THE
ATLANTIC, MINDFUL OF THE COURAGE
IT WOULD TAKE NAVIGATING A NEW
WORLD FILLED WITH ENORMOUS
POTENTIAL FOR DISEASE AND DEATH.
WE FIND IT IN THE DEEPLY HELD
RELIGIOUS BELIEFS REJECTING
CHURCH HIERARCHY AND RULES AS
CONTRARY TO SCRIPTURE IN FAVOR
OF A WORLD WHERE YOU NEED NOT GO
THROUGH ANOTHER TO COME BEFORE
GOD AND WARSHIP AND WHERE THEY
COULD RAISE THEIR CHILDREN IN
THEIR OWN FAITH INSTEAD OF
LOSING THEM.
WE FIND IT IN THEIR SHEER
AUDACITY, A GROUP OF A FEW MORE
THAN 100, LESS THAN HALF OF THEM
GROWN MEN SO COMMITTED TO AN
IDEA AND A BELIEF IN THE
RIGHTNESS OF THEIR PURPOSE THEY
WOULD FLOUT ANY PRESSURE, ANY
GOVERNMENT, ANY RESTRICTION,
EVEN FROM THE HIGH MONARCH OF
ENGLAND, JAMES THE FIRST.
THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT WRITTEN
ANTICIPATION OF CONFLICT AND
DISUNITY MADE A NOD TO
KING JAMES IN ITS OPENING AND
MADE CLEAR THE GROUP WOULD BOW
ONLY TO SUCH A GOVERNMENT AND
GOVERNORS AS WE SHOULD BY COMMON
CONSENT AGREED TO MAKE AND
CHOOSE.
IT IS A SIMPLE DOCUMENT TO READ
TODAY, SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL.
IT REPRESENTS AN ASSUMPTION OF
EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW THAT
WOULD STRETCH FROM THAT MOMENT
INTO THE FUTURE.
ALONG THE WAY THE PILGRIMS
ENCOUNTERED ONE DISASTER AFTER
ANOTHER BEFORE THEY TURNED WEST,
THEY TRIED TO HEAD FOR HOLLAND
AND WERE BETRAYED BY THE CAPTAIN
THEY HIRED, WHEN MEN ESCAPED ON
THE SHIP, THEIR WIVES AND
CHILDREN WERE IMPRISONED, THERE
WERE TWO MENIAL JOBS WHILE HER
PLANS FELL THROUGH AGAIN AND
AGAIN BEFORE THE JOURNEY BEGAN
AND WHEN THEY ARRIVED, THEY CAME
UPON A LAND RAVAGED BY PLAGUE,
THRUST INTO THE ONSET OF A HARSH
AND UNFORGIVING WINTER.
BEFORE THE SPRING, HALF OF THEM
WOULD BE DEAD.
BUT WHAT THE PILGRIMS
REPRESENTED TOGETHER WAS A
COMMUNITY WITH THE ATTRIBUTES
WILLING TO GO ON AN ERRAND INTO
THE WILDERNESS.
THEY BELIEVED THEY WERE
STRANGERS AND EXILES IN THE
EARTH, SEEKING A COUNTRY OF
THEIR OWN.
THAT WAS A COUNTRY GOD WOULD
PREPARE FOR THEM IF THEY WERE
BOLD ENOUGH TO SEEK IT.
THESE IDEAS THAT NOT JUST COME
FROM EUROPE.
AS THE GREAT CALVIN COOLIDGE
SAID 101 YEARS AGO, ON THE 300TH
ANNIVERSARY OF THE PILGRIMS
ARRIVAL ON PLYMOUTH ROCK, THEY
CAME NOT MERELY FROM THE SHORES
OF THE OLD WORLD.
IT WOULD BE IN VAIN TO SEARCH
AMONG RECORDED MAPS IN HISTORY
FOR THEIR ORIGIN.
THEY SAILED UP OUT OF THE
INFINITE.
THERE WAS AMONG THEM SMALL TRACE
OF THE VANITIES OF LIFE, THEY
CAME ON DECKED OF ORDERS OF
NOBILITY.
THEY WERE NOT CHILDREN OF
FORTUNE BUT OF TRIBULATION,
PERSECUTION NOT PREFERENCE
BROUGHT THEM HITTER BUT IT WAS A
PERSECUTION IN WHICH THEY FOUND
A STERN SATISFACTION.
THEY CARED LITTLE FOR TITLES,
STILL LESS FOR THE GOODS OF THIS
EARTH, BUT FOR AN IDEA THEY
WOULD DIE.
MEASURED BY THE STANDARDS OF MEN
OF THEIR TIME, THEY WERE THE
HUMBLE OF THE EARTH, MEASURED BY
LATER ACCOMPLISHMENTS, THEY WERE
THE MIGHTY.
WEEK AND PERSECUTED THEY CAN,
REJECTED, DESPISED, AND
INSIGNIFICANT BAND.
IN REALITY, STRONG AND
INDEPENDENT, A MIGHTY HOST OF
WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY,
DESTINED TO FREE MANKIND.
NO CAPTAIN EVER LED HIS FORCES
TO SUCH A CONQUEST.
OBLIVIOUS TO RANK YET TRACED TO
THEM THEIR LINEAGE AS TO A ROYAL
HOUSE.
THOSE OF US WHO LOVE THIS
COUNTRY STILL DO.
MY MOTHER HAS A LITTLE WOODEN
CHAIR THAT HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN
IN HER FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS.
IT WAS TALLER ONCE, A HIGH CHAIR
BUT IT WAS CUT DOWN AND USED AS
A TOOL TO HELP A CHILD LEARN TO
WALK.
IT’S BACK IS FLAT FROM THE WHERE
OF LITTLE HANDS PART OF THE
LIKELIEST OWNER WAS JEDEDIAH
STRONG BORN ON MAY 7TH 1637 IN
PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS, TO
ABIGAIL AND JOHN STRONG WHO
MARRIED AFTER CROSSING THE
ATLANTIC.
UNDER THE GOVERNORSHIP OF
WILLIAM BRADFORD, WENT ON TO
MARY FREEDOM WOODWARD WHO WON A
DAUGHTER THEY NAMED THANKFUL AND
BEGAN A LINE OF AMERICANS WOULD
FIGHT AND SERVE TO ALL OUR WARS,
FRENCH AND INDIAN,
REVOLUTIONARY, CIVIL, ONTO IRAQ
AND AFGHANISTAN, ALL THE WAY UP
UNTIL TODAY.
OUR NATION AND THE CREED IT
REPRESENTS IS UNDER CONSTANT
ASSAULT FROM THE FORCES OF
REVISIONISM, BACKED IN A CULTURE
WAR BY WOKE CORPORATIONS, BIG
TECH AND THE MOST MALEVOLENT
FORCES WITHIN OUR MEDIA, ALL
SEEKING TO DENY OUR INHERITANCE,
DESTROY OUR PAST, FORGET THE
FACES OF OUR FATHERS, AND
DEMOLISH THE VALUE OF THE
COURAGE AND DEDICATION AT THE
HEART OF AMERICA’S CREATION.
THAT’S WHY IT’S INCUMBENT UPON
US AS AMERICANS TO RENEW THIS
SPIRIT IN EVERY GENERATION, NOT
TO SIT BACK ON WHAT PRIOR
GENERATIONS BUILT BUT TO STRIVE
OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS
OURSELVES THE AREAS OF LIFE ON
THIS CORNER OF GOD’S CREATION
STILL UNDISCOVERED, UNCONTESTED
AND UNCLAIMED.
AS THE LATE, GREAT RICHARD JOHN
NEUHAUS SAID IT.
>> WHY DO WE WANT EVERYBODY TO
WORK AND EVERYBODY TO
PARTICIPATE?
BECAUSE IT’S PREMISED UPON NOT JUST A VACUOUS NOTION OF FREEDOM
JUST A VACUOUS NOTION OF FREEDOM
BUT A VERY DEEP RESPECT FOR, TO
QUOTE ONE OF MY FAVORITE
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHERS, A BOOK
CALLED THE SUBJECTIVITY OF
SOCIETY.
THIS YEAR MAGNIFICENT DIVERSITY
OF HUMAN BEINGS WHEN THEY ARE
FREED TO IMAGINE AND TO LOVE AND
TO ASSOCIATE, THE KIND OF THING
THAT TOCQUEVILLE CAME IN THE
1830s AND SAW AMERICA AND HE
SAW THE WHOLE FUTURE OF THE
WORLD AND NOT WITHOUT SOME
SHADOWED ASPECTS, VERY DEEPLY
SHADOWED.
HE SAW A KIND OF PROMISE OF A
NEW WAY HE CALLED DEMOCRACY.
WEEK, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORSE
AND ALL UNDESERVING IN OUR PART,
WE REPRESENT THAT TOCQUEVILLE HE
IMPOSSIBILITY.
>> WHAT A WONDROUS THING IT IS
TO SEE THE WORLD THAT THE
PILGRIMS MADE TO.
FOR ALL ITS FLAWS, IT IS A
TESTAMENT TO THEIR RESOLVE AND
DARING WITHOUT WHICH THE COUNTRY
AND THE PEOPLE WE LOVE SO MUCH