(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Vice President J. D. Vance's address to the Munich Security Conference about "our shared values" is worth taking a closer look.
It starts out with a foundational principle of democracy. Including himself among the audience members who have a position in government, he says "Now it's time for all of us (who have been fortunate enough to be given political power by our respective peoples) to use it wisely to improve their lives."
America's Declaration of Independence states the principle: government gets its just (fair and right) powers from the consent of the citizens who are governed.
Then VP Vance tells them that Americans are shocked when they hear that the Romanian election was "annulled," that Germany was also threatened with the same thing if things don't go "correctly." He reminds them that tyrannical forces in Europe once "censored dissidents, closed churches, cancelled elections" . . and they were not the good guys.
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