serene
Is this author John Avlon quotation about President Washington relevant today?
Is this author John Avlon quotation about President Washington relevant today?
"The calling card of the demigod / demagogue is always us against them.
And [President George] Washington warned against those folks, I mean you know, because it's the easiest thing tin the world to do. You can destroy in a minute. Building takes time and it takes commitment and that's part of Washington's warning to us is whenever the siren song of folks he called "pretend patriots" would try to divide Ameircans against one another, he said,
"Don't trust them. We need to be focused on this eternal truth.
Our independence as a nation is as inseparable from our interdependence as a People."
That was his core bit of wisdom.
And so when any party tries to say they represent the bible and the American flag, look sideways at that.
Because those things belong to all of us and we need to stay united on what unites us not what divides us." CNN political analyst & editor in chief of The Daily Beast, John Avlon
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
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Sure, especially since now demogoguery is an industry, we have whole networks (MSNBC/FOX) and a medium (radio) dedicated to it even though it tears the Nation apart.
George was correct, just as he was on political parties, lobbyists, and Neutrality in the developing years of the Nation
serene
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I'm impressed.
The history I've read of it corroborates that Washington had the equivalent of a 2nd grade education. Not a 2nd grade education, the equivalent.
And yet he seemed to be a fairly quick study, and at key moments demonstrated inspired brilliance; as when he was invited to remain in the exec as king. Washington declined.
Sprew you KG3!"The army loses by not winning. The guerrilla wins by not losing." Secretary Henry Kissinger
"It should be obvious to anyone why conservatives and libertarians should be against Trump. He has no grounding in belief. No core philosophy. No morals. No loyalty. No curiosity. No empathy and no understanding. He demands personal loyalty and not loyalty to the nation. His only core belief is in his own superiority to everyone else. His only want is exercise more and more personal power." smb / purveyor of fact 18/03/18
Astraea
JPP Staff
The death of his father, however, made schooling abroad an impossibility for George Washington. He may have attended a school near his home for the first few years. Later he went to another school, either in Fredericksburg, Stafford County, or Westmoreland County. He excelled in mathematics and learned the rudiments of surveying. But he was not taught Latin or Greek like many gentlemen's sons, and he never learned a foreign language. Nor did he attend college. His formal education ended around the age of 15.
http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/biography/
sear (11-16-2017)
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