Another birthday comes and goes for our Republic. 231 years and counting. It’s been a good run with many amazing achievements and contributions to humanity. We now find ourselves looking at a midlife crisis as a country. Our “elected” leaders have been suborned by private interests, there is no visible integrity, and little hope of finding our way out.
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\nBut, it’s not in the American spirit to give up. Things may not be going well or right, but I do have faith that we can find our way forward and recover from the dark ages we’re living through at the beginning of this millennium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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