Reply #52: Thank You For A Very, very Thoughtful Post [View All]

Lincoln is an apt example of what needs to be done. His then-brand-new Republican Party rose from the ashes of the Constitution which had been savaged by the Judiciary with the passive and active consent of the other branches of government. A group of good people, standing on solid ground, said "It is atrocious that some can legally hold others in perpetual bondage, and now we have a flagrant violation of the Constitution to spread this evil. Enough is enough: if we lose the Constitution, we lose everything". Those good people saw the calamity, and rose to the occasion.

Are we facing any less of a calamity today? The Constitution has been shredded by one party, with the passive and active consent of the other. Our country has become a menace to its own people and to the rest of the world. So many people have suffered and died to enrich a few, and I have zero faith that this will be reversed by the craven triangulators that sit in Congress - they will only sit themselves ever-so-slightly to the left of the Republicans, who are now fringe crazies. Unless we do something very substantial it will only get worse - unless we get people of good character into the White House and the Congress. We must do our all to get good people in office, and to keep bad people out of office.