Moderation

 "When America didn’t exist men and women were compelled to invent it, BECAUSE MANKIND CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT FREEDOM AND STILL BE FULLY HUMAN."

So reads the tea party declaration of independence (by "admin;" at http://countyroots.com/policynotparty/). Of all the views expressed in the declaration, many are too extreme to be taken seriously. For instance, the sentence above implies that no one was human until 1776. It begs the question: why have Homo Sapiens lived for so many millenia, and not been compelled to invent America until so recently?

"Men and women where compelled to invent America because they could not exist without freedom." This rephrasing is moderate and hard to refute. If "admin" had applied a similar treatment to the whole document, it would be more believable and powerful.