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Originally Posted by Get real
The sad part about all of this, is that IMHO most Americans have felt that the people we elect to govern us are smarter, wiser, more responsible, and have a genuine desire to serve "us". My mother used to tell me "too bad we can't vote for the best candidate, these days we have to vote for the least worst". Maybe in the past politicians were honorable people, but these days politicians are a bunch of self serving, money thieving, power hungry leeches regardless of party affiliation. They are all millionaires and live apart from us "peasants".
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History as we were indoctrinated with was first of all boring and secondly totally false.
What we vote for is a public relations firm. You do not know the person we vote for at least most of us don't.
Today, our screaming about our past and our current president. Read about Abe Lincoln
thought, today, by most to be one of our greatest presidents. What we are fed in history class.
Truth is just as today our nation was clearly divided. My view, at the end of the Civil War,
Abe Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday. For me a shockingly, simple, brilliant
political act. Had Booth, out of mindless hate, not killed Lincoln my opinion, though we cannot go down two different roads at the same time, things would have been far better for the south, for freed slaves and for OUR nation.
Do overs, were perhaps third grade. We all have no choice but to see where we are and decide or try to decide where we go from here