Don’t Tread on Me!

Many Americans Refuse to Surrender Liberty [The Daily Reckoning] May 12, 2023 [WEBSITE]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE]( Don’t Tread on Me! - The same government that caused an epidemic of loneliness now wants to fix it… - The working class origins of the tuxedo… - Long live the resistance… [Huge Announcement From James Altucher!]( [Click here for more...]( Hi, I’m Silicon Valley insider James Altucher… And in my hands is a colossal check. Today, in the next 60 seconds, I’m going to make an announcement which could change your life forever. It all has to do with this check you see pictured here… … and an important opportunity that I believe could begin to take place as soon as this week. Don’t waste any time… [Get The Full Details Now]( West Hartford, Connecticut Editor’s note: Government response to the pandemic was in many instances draconian, even tyrannical. While many Americans were happy to comply, many others were not. Today, Jeffrey Tucker shows you how these Americans have kept the lamp of liberty lit. [Jeffrey Tucker] JEFFREY TUCKER Dear Reader, Two years ago, major American cities were segregated by vaccine status. Mask mandates delineated safe and unsafe. Signs told us to be separate from each other. We couldn’t even encounter each other during shopping thanks to one-way grocery aisles. We were not allowed to visit families or even attend funerals. Weddings were out of the question. There were even travel restrictions. And recently the Department of Health and Human Services released a report sounding the alarm about the pandemic of loneliness. While social connection had been declining for decades prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the onset of the pandemic, with its lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, was a critical time during which the issue of connection came to the forefront of public consciousness, raising awareness about this critical and ongoing public health concern. Many of us felt lonely or isolated in a way we had never experienced before. We postponed or canceled meaningful life moments and celebrations like birthdays, graduations, and marriages. Children’s education shifted online — and they missed out on the many benefits of interacting with their friends. Many people lost jobs and homes. We were unable to visit our children, siblings, parents, or grandparents. Many lost loved ones. We experienced feelings of anxiety, stress, fear, sadness, grief, anger, and pain through the loss of these moments, rituals, celebrations, and relationships. We Broke It — Now Let Us Fix It Oh thanks a lot HHS! As if this agency had nothing to do with causing this and they are just innocent bystanders. It’s not as if many people predicted exactly this. Don’t forget that the CDC and the NIH are actually part of HHS. HHS was the source of all the preposterous and coercive orders for closings, stay-at-home orders, and everything else. So the government agency that caused the crisis is now citing the crisis as evidence that it needs to do more. It meanwhile acts and talks as if this entire fiasco is just something that happened, for whatever reason. In any case, all of this flies in the face of every liberty Americans previously took for granted. It also created a caste system of the clean and unclean. From the start, we were delineated between essential and nonessential, elective and essential surgeries, the laptop class and the actual workers, and more. It was a mass act of segregation and separation as defined by bureaucracies, the HHS among them. This is massively contrary to every bit of the ethos of American law and culture. Notions of equality, democracy, and equal opportunity have been a defining mark of the “new world” vs the “old world.” That’s why it is so deeply embedded in our history and culture. 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The Declaration of Independence says that “All men are created equal,” which was an astounding claim by any historical measure. It’s why the US Constitution forbids titles of nobility. Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 reads: “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” They had every desire to throw off the strict social and political demarcations of the past. At George Wasington’s first inauguration, the Senate proposed that he wear a robe made of pricey ermine fur. Washington said no and chose instead a woolen suit like everyone else wore at the time. It’s also why the US fought a bloody war finally to end slavery in America after it was tolerated only under a moral cloud for the century before. It was the ethos and driving ethic of the civil rights movement: “liberty and justice for all,” says our Pledge. This strong belief in equal freedom for everyone, and privileges for no one, defines this country in ways we do not always know. The Working Class Origins of the Tuxedo Consider, for example, American formalwear for men. To be formal these days usually means for men to wear “black tie,” which means what we call a Tuxedo. It is the standard attire and the most formal we know how to be. It has been this way since 1880 when, at an event at Tuxedo Park, New York, the newly rich wore black tie and a dinner jacket. What is not known is that the entire outfit is an homage to the working classes. The black tie and dinner jacket in the old-world Commonwealth countries was the garb of footmen and valets, not the aristocracy. For anyone seated at the main table, the proper dress was the tailcoat and white tie. In other words, the point of the Tuxedo was not to be fancy but just the opposite. It was to say that in this country, we are all aristocrats. We are all workers. We all enjoy class mobility, and we certainly don’t separate out anyone as inherently entitled to dress a certain way. And from that we reward people by merit alone. Even those of inherited money need to prove their worth. There we have it: the most formal thing in this country has origins in democratic ideals of equality, class mobility, choice, and opportunity. [Warning: Will “Bidenflation” Destroy Your Retirement?]( [Click here for more...]( If you’re like most Americans, you’ve worked hard for decades to build your financial legacy. And now, as a result of Biden’s disastrous money printing policies, that’s all at risk. According to one top retirement expert, “Bidenflation” threatens to destroy your retirement and make your hard-earned savings worthless. That’s why you must take action right away to protect yourself… [Click Here To Learn How]( The same is true of the history of denim jeans, which have spread throughout the world as a symbol of casual freedom. In US history, denim was used to make sturdy work pants, as worn by laborers, miners, and ranchers. Levi Strauss, from which the brand was named, was a German-American businessman. His jeans came to be worn once again as a symbol of solidarity across all classes. Ruling Class Tried to Overturn the American Tradition For all the differences we have among ourselves, on the core principle of equal freedom there is near-universal agreement. And this is precisely why the ethos of the pandemic response was so foreign and unsustainable, and why vaccine passports will never be a policy that will be successfully implemented in this country. It’s for the same reason we’ll never have a monarchy: it betrays everything this country is about. The cultural crisis and the pandemic of loneliness, not to mention the mass wave of substance abuse and depression, reflects the country-wide shock that all our fundamental ideals could so easily have been swept aside for a cockamamie central plan that trampled on everything we believe in and have always practiced however imperfectly. It felt like an invasion of the body snatchers, nowhere better symbolized than with vaccine mandates that most intelligent people knew we didn’t need even if they were safe and effective, which they were not, certainly not by traditional standards when a relatively low number of people suffering side effects would get a vaccine pulled. Long Live the Resistance But given the depth of this history, this deep love of freedom, equality, and democracy, there will never be regime change in this country. They can rule for a while but not really in a stable way or in a way that will replace the values that are so deeply embedded here. This is why the ruling class is gradually casting off the symbols of the lockdowns from Andrew Cuomo and Randi Weingarten to Rochelle Walensky and Anthony Fauci, who faces torrents of jeers every time he opens his mouth. Equal freedom is the essence of what it means to live an American life. A ruling-class oligarchy of the sort they tried to impose on the country and the world is fundamentally inconsistent with everything we believe about ourselves and our place in the civic order. Let us proceed to rebuild and reinforce that which is the core of who we are. Regards, Jeffrey Tucker for The Daily Reckoning [feedback@dailyreckoning.com.](mailto:feedback@dailyreckoning.com) Editor’s note: Have you signed up for next Wednesday’s big event with Jim Rickards? This coming Wednesday, May 17, at 1 p.m. ET, Jim will be taking center stage at one of the most exclusive clubs in America. It’s located on a tiny island off the southern coast of Georgia — Jekyll Island. This club is a place where one of the most important meetings in history took place 113 years ago. It was a meeting that shaped the world as we know it today. It’s hard to overstate the importance of that meeting. That’s because it led to the creation of the Federal Reserve three years later. It all started on Jekyll Island. Jim’s returning to “the scene of the crime” to show you why that meeting is critical to understanding today’s market. And he’s inviting you to listen in. [Click here]( to reserve your FREE spot to learn how a secret meeting in 1910 led to one of the most powerful and elite groups on the planet — and why it matters to you today. Clicking the link above automatically registers you for The Secret of Jekyll Island Livestream Broadcast, but does not obligate you in any way to attend the event. By reserving your spot, you will receive event updates. We will not share your email address with anyone. And you can opt out at any time. 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