Month: August 2020

The first Republican president was Abraham lincoln. He was not a racist. He freed the slaves and is known as “The Great Emancipator”.
The country has never been more polarized than during the Civil War. Lincoln urged his countrymen to “heal the nations’s wounds.”
Theoodore Roosevelt oversaw the establishment of Yellowstone, the first national park in the world. He championed the sustainable management of forests.
Dwight D. Eisenhower led us into the Space Age after the Soviet Union had upstaged America.
Ronald Reagan accepted raproachment with the Soviet Union and helped to end the Cold War.

I was a Republican when I was young and even voted for Goldwater in 1964.

The present incumbents in the White house and the Senate are disgracing your party. The president is frankly racist and a misogynist.
In making decisions he iks guided by his ignorance and his prejuudices.
He is so incompetent that he would not even make a good fascist. The Senate, by failing to impeach him, convicted itself.

The greatest danger to liberty is whatever individual or group happens to be in power at the moment.
The lure of power (and money) is so great that this is true of even the most benign individual or group.
the old saying is worth keeping in mind: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

Winston Churchill has said that democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others.

But the people can deprive themselves of liberty by responding irrationally to appeals to fear, resentment or despair. Hitler came to power by election.

Even the institutions of democracies can be a danger to themselves and to liberty. The Electoral College is part of the Constitution of the United States,
put there by some of the framers who distrusted democracy. In the last presidential election it resulted in the choice of a candidate who appealed to fear and resentment, had no experience of government and was of doubtful character.The greatest danger to liberty is whatever individual or group happens to be in power at the moment.
The lure of power (and money) is so great that this is true of even the most benign individual or group.
the old saying is worth keeping in mind: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

Winston Churchill has said that democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others.

But the people can deprive themselves of liberty by responding irrationally to appeals to fear, resentment or despair. Hitler came to power by election.

Even the institutions of democracies can be a danger to themselves and to liberty. The Electoral College is part of the Constitution of the United States,
put there by some of the framers who distrusted democracy. In the last presidential election it resulted in the choice of a candidate who appealed to fear and resentment, had no experience of government and was of doubtful character.

GodTouches has a Twitter account that you might find interesting. It contains thoughts that are too brief to put in a blog post, and it is updated much more frequently, since it is easier to enter a tweet than a blog p ost. To see it, expand the top menu if necessary, go to the link to other sites. It is one of the first links there. I hope you enj oy it.