From Valley Forge to the Voting Booth: Are We Protecting Democracy—or Reshaping It?
On a January night at Valley Forge, a small group of farmers and tradesmen huddled around fires that barely took the edge off. They were not saints, and they were not abstractions. They were cold, sick, and in many cases poorly paid or not paid at all. They were also tethered to an idea that the state should answer to ordinary people, not the other way around. That is the romance, yes, but it had grit and splinters. The march from that winter to your polling place is not a
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On a January night at Valley Forge, a small group of farmers and tradesmen huddled around fires that barely took the edge off. They were not saints, and they were not abstractions. They were cold, sick, and in many cases poorly paid or not paid at all. They were also tethered to an idea that the state should answer to ordinary people, not the other way around. That is the romance, yes, but it had grit and splinters. The march from that winter to your polling place is not a
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