The torch has been pointing in the same direction for a long time — and it isn't wrong.
The promise didn't start with a statue. It started in 1776, tested on battlefields, rewritten in blood and legislation, carried across oceans by people who had nothing when they arrived and built something anyway. Liberty isn't a decoration — it's a standard. Every generation inherits it, decides what it's worth, and either holds it up or lets it drift. Most have held it up.
