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Chris J. Karr's avatar

The epitaph on this Administration's tombstone, courtesy of Gen. McKenzie:

"We did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out."

It'll be interesting to see who the Democrats can get off their bench for 2024.

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Salted Grits's avatar

I never expected a second term from Biden. I am glad to be done with the never ending war in Afganistan. Unfortunately, I believe Biden's election was the last gasp of our dying Democratic Republic. The lunatics have taken control of the Republican party and the illiterate of the 21st century have enabled them to do so. (The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn" ~ Alvin Toffler.)

I have watched as the Republican party has run its ground game, securing its stronghold from the bottom to top rungs of government in state after state. We are seeing the fulfillment of the grave concerns George Washington expressed in his farewell address

"Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

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