Cursive is not the barrier. It is the bridge.

Since so many great documents are written in cursive, and so many have not benefited from the wisdom of each author, I begin to wonder if the reason is

1) there are a great lot of Americans who never learned to read or write in cursive.

2) there are even more Americans who have the entire internet at their disposal and cling to the notion they can only learn when someone teaches them while they are in school.

3) there are a few Americans who use their ignorance of cursive as a shield against enlightenment with anything written in cursive.

Whatever the true reason is, others will find fault and press their advantage. Lost will become those who fail to digest and apply the profound statements of,

1) We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness

2) We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

Witness those who (only) shout the loudest. For them, their words are the gunpowder of hidden intentions. They are not to be listened to or reasoned with. They are to be exploded against the fortifications of debate in the arena of ideas. Such screamers find the volume, and not the ideas, the true weapon of their arguments.

Great ideas, conveyed by great voices, use great words. Meaning need only be whispered to travel great distances. Age cannot dull purpose, but apathy can leave them hidden when the ideas they create cannot find the people who need them most.

Thus, cursive is not the barrier. It is the bridge.

Learn the language and style of those words. Read the original documents. Ask why millions did so before you.

Then ask why millions more do not.

The reason may be simpler than you think.