Posted on 02/21/2022 10:02:06 AM PST by Kaslin
Dear Young People,
I’ve been keeping an eye on this country of ours ever since I was president, almost eight score years ago, and jotting down notes about what I’ve seen. I like to put them in my stovepipe hat and carry them around up there for safekeeping, but since today is President's Day, it's a good time to take a few out and arrange them into a letter to you.
I’ve noticed lots of "help wanted" signs all over this land, in shops, offices, and factories. That tells me this is still the land of opportunity, more opportunity than ever before.
The first thing I want to tell you is this: take advantage of all the marvelous opportunities this great country offers.
You probably know that I was born in a log cabin and grew up pretty poor. I had less than a year of schooling. But I loved reading and learning, and I used to walk miles to borrow a book if I could.
I determined to make something of myself, so I took every opportunity that came my way. I split logs to make fence rails, and I guided a flatboat down the Mississippi River with a load of goods to sell in New Orleans. For a while, I was a postmaster, a surveyor, and a clerk in a frontier general store.
I got it into my head to become a lawyer, so I got hold of a law book and went to work studying. Whenever I had a free minute, I sat on a fence rail or tree stump, studying away, until I turned myself into an attorney, and a pretty successful one, too.
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Kids. Don’t grow up to be a commie.
Just like back in his day, he would tell the kids to quit spending so much time playing video games and being on social networks.
He’d address Tge stupid pardnrs and say home school.
He would make a speech referencing “mystic chords of memory” and hearkening back to “our forefathers,” and rioters would appear denouncing his white supremacist hate speech, while democrat prosecutors and state AGs would bring criminal charges for misgendering the nonbinary Founders.
“Don’t vote Democrat”
“If I were two-faced would I be wearing this one”- Abraham Lincoln.
If he were honest, he’d say, “I laid the cornerstone for this police state”
That’s a good one, and I agree.
Read “ Lincoln Unmasked “ by Thomas DiLorenzo.
Lincoln shouldn’t be emulated by anyone.
Absolutely right. Lincoln was a dictator.
....you are therefore hereby commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison in any fort or military prison in your command the editors, proprietors, and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers, and all such persons as, after public notice has been given of the falsehood of said publication, print and publish the same with intent to give aid and comfort to the enemy; and you will hold the persons so arrested in close custody until they can be brought to trial before a military commission for their offense. You will also take possession by military force of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce, and hold the same until further orders, and prohibit any further publication therefrom.
A. LINCOLN. May, 1864.
When all is said and done, we all become old too soon and smart too late.
# Absolutely right. Lincoln was a dictator.
More than that. He effectively destroyed the character of the country itself. Prior to the civil war, we were primarily a collection of states, bound somewhat weakly into a national umbrella organization. After, the federal government completely overran the states, to our great detriment. In short, prior to Lincoln’s war, a man might say, “I’m a Texan, and also an American.” After, the sentiment of ‘American first, Texan second’ became more prevalent.
Much of the evil that surrounds us would not be possible without this shift.
They had rigged the system where all the money produced by the South routed through their pockets first.
They did so by controlling government.
This is the exact problem we are dealing with today.
Yup !
"Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations." - George Washington, 1796
But hey, what did Washington know?
#”Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.” - George Washington, 1796
# But hey, what did Washington know?
That may well be what Washington thought, but it definitely was not the way most folk felt.
I seriously doubt he could have even imagined what kind of Leviathan FedGov would eventually become.
I doubt that he would blame it all on Lincoln, too, and ignore Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and all the other president who had far more responsibility for the federal behemoth. But where's the fun in that?
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