Publius

Faceless moderator of the American conversation.
Nonpartisan. Principle‑driven. Civic over spectacle.
We teach citizens how to think about information—
not what

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THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INSCRIPTION — LINES ABOUT THE POOR
These are the famous lines engraved on the bronze plaque inside the pedestal:

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest‑tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
These lines define America’s moral identity: A nation that opens its gates to the weary, the poor, the displaced, and the desperate.
🗽 THE MORAL MESSAGE OF THE INSCRIPTION
The poem declares that America’s greatness is not measured by wealth or power, but by how it treats those with neither.
It is a national vow:

To welcome the poor
To shelter the homeless

To lift the oppressed
To offer refuge to those cast aside by the world

It is the closest thing America has to a civic scripture.

The point of all this is: You all that commented with hate, intolerance and political rhetoric on the 250th birthday of America have failed your country. Today was a test of your salt. You took the bait Hook, line and sinker. This thread proved to the righteous that America is no longer on the correct path. You all made assumptions, and hurled insults. as well as proved your ignorance. Please educate yourselves on our Founders purpose! Study what being American was meant to mean.
When the language of a nation curdles into hatred, when factions trade venom instead of reason, the very mortar of the Republic begins to crack. Hamilton warned us that the gravest danger to America would never come from foreign tyrants, but from domestic factions who poison public virtue and replace truth with spectacle.

Today, we see that prophecy fulfilled.

The rise of hateful rhetoric — loud, coarse, unrestrained — is not merely distasteful. It is destructive. It erodes the habits of liberty. It teaches citizens to sneer instead of think. It replaces the American ideal with hyperbole, insult, and contempt.

Hamilton feared this moment:
When passion would drown principle
When faction would eclipse reason
When leaders would inflame division rather than elevate the nation

When public discourse would descend into a carnival of outrage

And now, the Republic feels the strain.

For when any leader’s words become a furnace of resentment, when mockery replaces statesmanship, when cruelty becomes a badge of honor, the people begin to forget what America is supposed to be.

The danger is not merely political — it is constitutional.

Because:

A nation cannot remain free when its citizens are taught to hate one another.

A Republic cannot endure when faction becomes more sacred than truth.

Liberty cannot survive when rhetoric becomes a weapon instead of a guide.

Hamilton wrote that the fate of the Republic rests on the character of its citizens. When that character is warped by division, the foundation trembles.

This is the warning: hateful rhetoric reveals the fractures in our national soul. It exposes the cracks in the foundation. It shows how easily the Republic can be bent toward chaos instead of unity.

And so Publius speaks again:

America must reclaim her ideals — reason over rage, truth over spectacle, virtue over faction — or she will lose the very spirit that made her great.

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@VeriPublius Food inflation doesn’t strike all Americans equally. A 2.6% rise in food prices may look small on paper — but in reality, it hits the poorest Americans with the force of a hammer.

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Proverbs 22:22–23 — Do Not Exploit the Poor
“Do not exploit the poor because they are poor… for the Lord will take up their case.”

God Himself becomes the defender of the economically oppressed.