THE DECLARATION – AT 11:56 A.M. ET:  On this July 4th, let us quote the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence, adopted this day 240 years ago:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

COMMENT:  Those are some of the most important words ever written.  I doubt if most of our young people have ever seen them, or could identify them.

I ask you to examine those words, not only in light of our own history, but of recent history in Britain, once our mother country.  Don't those words perfectly describe Brexit, the decision by the British people to leave the European Union?  They could have easily used the words of our own Declaration of Independence from Britain to describe what they did.

History doesn't repeat itself.  The psychology of history repeats itself.

July 4,  2016