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Dana Bennett's avatar

You covered it all, TH. This was hard reading in the morning, but I wouldn’t want to have missed it. I grew up when Ike was president so believed in the presidency. Then a 16-year-old when JFK was assassinated. Everything shifted from that point on. You just gave me all the details and background for what happened to the US and its democracy death-rattle now. Feels pretty goddamn overwhelming. BUT I just got my msil-in ballot in Denver yesterday. I WILL be voting for Democrts and democracy

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Fascinating reading; most of us are unaware of such information. This is an article around which the history books should be written. There's a lot of details in the article that are head-shaking, and I needed to lift myself higher for a birds-eye view for perspective. What I see, and I'm sure a lot of Americans are seeing, is a deeply-divided country. This division is no accident; we know that Putin is one of the world's foremost experts on sowing division, and he has a "useful idiot" holed up in a golf course somewhere, plotting how to further such division.

The sad part is that you happen to have a caring, conscientious president and vice-president right now who could have a positive impact on your nation, but who aren't being allowed to do so. That's unfortunate, because men and women of their calibre don't come along that often.

There's a comparison that comes to mind, and there are probably others that I'm unaware of, but the history books tell us that the nation of Israel was once the "U.S.A." of the world; it was the dominant power and the crossroads of commerce in the days of King David. Under David, the nation was UNITED - united with its ruler still maintaining a relationship with God. After David, things began to go downhill - a rift was sown, and before long there was the Northern kingdom and the Southern. Israel gradually lost its greatness; citizens and their rulers were never able to mend what had been torn. We're seeing the same thing happening in America; your greatness is gradually diminishing, and you seem to be unable to heal the rift. Even when you're fortunate enough to have a good president and vice-president, as you have now, their efforts are being undermined at every step of the way. The battle and all its dirty tricks will continue, because men's heads are very hard and dull (women know and understand this), and rarely are the thoughts of their heads warmed by the influences of their heart, such as we see with your current president, a quality which I feel places him among one of your best on record.

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