249 years ago today — January 10, 1776 —#ThomasPaine’s published #CommonSense, which turned America’s colonial rebellion into a revolution for independence and the making of a democratic republic! (Next year the 250th… 🇺🇸)
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Common Sense is one of those books that left a lasting impression on me. It sent me down a different path in life.
Decades later, its still on my bookshelf.
A republic yes, but democratic? More like a polyarchy initially run by white, land-owning men, with the franchise extended over the following 2 centuries to larger segments of the population through often violent struggles but still restricted today by oligarchical concentrations of economic power.
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Decades later, its still on my bookshelf.