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What Now?
A common theme in most of my essays over the past eighteen months is that this is not who we are or who we want to be as a nation.
Our second President, John Adams wrote a letter to John Taylor in 1814, that said in part, “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
We are about to prove him right when all three branches of our government are dedicated to dismantling democracy, rescinding our rights, brutally bleaching our society, rewriting history, disputing provable facts, censoring the content and flow of information, consolidating power, and lining their own pockets.
The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial domains of our federal government are subservient to the dictates and direction of the Heritage Foundation (founded in 1973) on policy and legislation (Project 2025), and the Federalist Society, which has provided large contributions to the nation’s leading law schools and institutions in exchange for the right to transform the curriculum to produce ultra-conservative candidates for judicial appointments who support “originalist” dogma and the interests of their sponsors since 1982.
These federations flourished during the Reagan era when their strategists developed a comprehensive conservative infrastructure to provide policy initiatives…
