Once the Centerpiece of Celebration, a Faded Declaration Recedes

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Sunlight and abuse have taken a toll on the document, encased in bulletproof glass. But the Trump administration “hasn’t put much emphasis on it,” a former archivist notes.

I’ll note the list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence and why that might just have an awful lot to do with it.

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I’d never read that before. Interesting.

and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed

Kind of describes the climate crisis.

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And, more poignantly, the rise of fascism.

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