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The only President who had NO connection to the American Experience.

Nothing in his heritage connected to the linking of tradition, respectability, and honesty that the United States has stood for in the world.

He truly has no concept of what we as a people are. He thinks everything is about equal outcome. A concept that never was and never will be.

He hates us for loving freedom and not desiring to be dependent on the state for our happiness. Does that mean that we are free from all restraint? No, only from unnecessary restraint.

He has no concept of honor and dignity. Only his petty ego, and the acquisition of power. But for whom?

He has never built anything. Only criticized those who do not want to do his bidding as being Unfair and Biggoted.

He despises the Dead White Guys who formed our government. And their document the Constitution of the United States. He talks about it being a living document, but if he had his way it would be a dying document.

I have marveled at James Madison’s discourse about the Greek and Roman republics, influenced by the thoughts of Titus Livius and Polybius. You say what possible relevance does that have to this advanced time.

Ironically in the information age there is a paradox. In the face of the most advanced systems of communication in the history of the world, we appear to be less well informed politically and economically than any period in our history. Is it because of the “noise” that surounds the intelligence in the data. Or is it simply that these things are taken “out of context” of our civilization.

We have a press (not a functioning free press as our founders envisioned) that practiced propaganda during the Presidential campaign. What price will they ultimately pay for their part in this?

“To market official truth, so at variance with reality. Or to engineer consent to policies that mock American values. Government must so thoroughly miss-inform the public as to poison the wellspring of Democracy” —Adair—

Several years ago I read how borders no longer are important and that we are in a Global Economy. But those economic transactions have value related to “context” that cannot be calculated in dollars and cents.

It is the very fabric of trust that we live in. Destroy that and we are finished. Our parts must connect as a people. If they do not we will desend into a conflict that may be the path to our end.

We have an Obligation to resist this with our very lives!