Sorry, you are wrong about me missing your point. I got it. I just wasn't going to respond to your presumptive and snide comment. But your assumption happens to be wrong anyway.
My point, perhaps not sufficiently elaborate, was that the current crop of politicians, particularly the Democrats, is abysmally short on statesmanship in favor of partisan political expediency. The Democrats, particularly, have proven over the last 15 years that they would gladly sell our Republic to ruin to advance their own power and agenda. Giving them the benefit of doubt, they may not always understand the consequences of their actions or inactions in this regard. But many do understand what they are doing and they are indeed dangerous.
The monumental ignorance of the electorate is, sadly, indesputable. But seeing the performance of our military in Afghanistan and Iraq has given me cause for hope.
Although one could argue that statesmanship -- doing what is in the best interest of the Republic, no matter the cost -- has been in steady decline since the early 1800's, I do not share the extend of your pessimism. Fortunately, often the occasional statesman who comes along can right many wrongs during their tenure. Thus we can suffer many scoundrels and hacks yet continue to thrive.
In the end, I think you and I are in agreement on most points. See ya around.
Treasonous behavior is not new in the DemocRAT party. It has been a consistent strain in it from its beginning in 1790 or so. Jefferson's activities as Sec. of State under Washington were certainly right on the borderline if not over it. His working with the Frence terrorists of that day was as repulsive an act as ever taken by a high government official in the United States.
Some of his followers to the West openly admitted that should a war between France and the US erupt they would be inclined to fight for the French revolutionairies.
Of course, the "Civil" War was nothing short of a RAT revolt against the constitution and Union. Everyone who took up arms against the United States was a Democrat and the party was the home of Copperhead treachery in the North throughout the War ever ready to allow the Union to be destroyed and give in to the South.
And we cannot ignore the protection given the Communists who infiltrated the federal government prior to and during WWII.
DemocRAT denial and sabotage of Senator McCarthy's crusade are the true evil of "McCarthyism."
We have only begun to see the true costs of RAT treachery from 1992-2000, the needless sacrifice of thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, and the improvement of potential enemies' military capabilities.
My view is that the DemocRAT party is a 210+ conspiracy against the essence of the American ideal interrupted by precious few leaders of foresight, virtue and morals.
I agree wrt to the military being a source of hope amidst the clouds of pessimism to which I confess guilt. All those who attack the public school system must explain the existence of these magnificent Americans who almost entirely come from those very schools.
Presumptive and snide comments are part of my stock in trade but are not meant personnally but merely to provoke debate and ridicule such ideas as I considered ridiculable. One of those is a mythologized ideal past which ignores the actual realities of those days which were abominable in many respects. Sorry if I incorrectly imputed such a view to you.