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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSteven Beschloss: Defeating the Evil Among Us
I often re-read the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincolns 272-word genius that asserted the value of our democratic enterprise and the great task to sustain it, while also questioning whether any nation so conceived
can long endure. President Lincoln posed this question in November 1863 on the grounds of a blood-soaked Pennsylvania battlefield that, barely four months earlier, witnessed more than 51,000 casualties of Union and Confederate soldiers.
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Lincolns wisdom followed the direction that Thomas Jeffersons fundamental idea gave to a fledgling nation seeking to be a light to its countrymen and the world. We hold these truths to be self-evident, he wrote in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal. This too has traveled across time and continues to enlighten everyone who yearns for real freedom.
We are living through a period where the enemies within are abusing their power and working aggressivelyviciously, cruelly, immorally, criminallyto destroy the central tenets that have sustained our nation and guided the gradual progress that has improved lives for the many. They are attacking:
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Undergirding this demolition is a man of monumental malignancy, a sadistic sociopath, rapist and demagogue, who falsely mouthed the oath to preserve and protect our Constitution (without placing his hand on the Bible).
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Lincolns wisdom followed the direction that Thomas Jeffersons fundamental idea gave to a fledgling nation seeking to be a light to its countrymen and the world. We hold these truths to be self-evident, he wrote in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal. This too has traveled across time and continues to enlighten everyone who yearns for real freedom.
We are living through a period where the enemies within are abusing their power and working aggressivelyviciously, cruelly, immorally, criminallyto destroy the central tenets that have sustained our nation and guided the gradual progress that has improved lives for the many. They are attacking:
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Undergirding this demolition is a man of monumental malignancy, a sadistic sociopath, rapist and demagogue, who falsely mouthed the oath to preserve and protect our Constitution (without placing his hand on the Bible).
Read More: https://www.americaamerica.news/p/defeating-the-evil-among-us?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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It is well worth your time to read it all.
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Steven Beschloss: Defeating the Evil Among Us (Original Post)
sheshe2
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brer cat
(27,426 posts)1. K&R Excellent read.
sheshe2
(96,548 posts)2. Thank you for reading, brer.
sakabatou
(45,908 posts)3. It'll take years, if not decades, to defeat the malignancy of the QOP
On another note, my mind went immediately to kicking an impostor out of an airlock.

I like how you think. The airlock idea works for me!
sakabatou
(45,908 posts)5. You've played the game?
But I get the drift so to speak.
highplainsdem
(60,747 posts)7. Thanks for posting this, sheshe2!
sheshe2
(96,548 posts)8. Thanks, hpd.
Glad someone read it.