“Knowledge is power, and ignorance is weakness.”
Thomas Jefferson knew the drill. Without knowledge of our rights, our Constitution, and the limits of government power, there’s no way the people can stay – or even be – free.
Benjamin Rush made a similar point. We don’t emerge from the womb knowing our rights. We have to learn about them.
“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.”
We have a lot of hard work ahead of us because, by and large, the people are ignorant.
And this is on purpose.
Government schools have a vested interest in keeping the people clueless.
Here at the TAC, we’re doing everything possible to turn the tide. We aim to serve as a counterweight to the relentless propaganda churned out every day by government-run schools, along with the widespread ignorance the system creates.
We’ve been empowering the people with knowledge of the Constitution and the founding principles for two decades. But we do this work alone. We need your support.
Our ignorance (weakness) is government power. That’s why they don’t want the people to possess the power of knowledge.
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Here’s the rub.
If we’re relying on government education to teach the people, we’re doomed for failure because no one will ever learn about the true limits of government power. Government schools won’t teach it. As a result, people will imagine their problems are because the wrong person is in office or the wrong judges are sitting on some federal court.
It’s not just about providing the right educational resources. The people have to seek out knowledge. We don’t generally learn things by accident. As Abigail Adams put it, “Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
The biggest threat to our freedom and liberty isn’t bad politicians or ill-conceived government programs. Those are problems, no doubt. But a bigger threat lurks below and supports those evils.
Ignorance.
Thomas Jefferson understood this deadly threat.
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ….. it expects what never was and never will be.”
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