Summer of Terror?

When Politics Can’t Manage Violence

In the Democratic party, when a politician become too popular, like Al Franken or Bernie Sanders, they’re cut down. In the Republican party, popular politicians are boosted up.

Those who love Trump, really love Trump. Those who love…

Well, case in point, who IS the most loved Democrat?

The Constitution of the United States wasn’t written as a declaration of individual right (as today’s Republicans purport) or a testament to shared values (the Democrats blather).

It documents a divorce of the English colonists from The Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776.

One could argue that the United States became sovereign because Great Britain was overextended — not because the colonists were stronger. The colonists were simply too much for the King of England to manage.

And it wasn’t a bad move. Great Britain went from controlling two percent of the World in 1776 to 25% in the 1920s! How’s that for a happy English ending?

Losing the colonies did not slow Great Britain down.

No one saw, at the time, that the real prize would be North America 150 years later!!!

My point is that there is no one truth about the Constitution. Narratives are a…