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Crazy Bernie Leads Cartoon Democrats

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As a child of the 1960’s, I remember taking Democrat political figures very seriously.  I remember listening to President John F. Kennedy speak on TV.  He advocated peace through strength, working together with our foreign neighbors, tax cuts and the continued revitalization of the American economy.  Sound familiar? I remember news reports of race riots in Selma, Alabama and unrest in Montgomery.  I remember President Kennedy calling out the national guard to open the doors for a black student to enter the University of Alabama, very serious events.  As a little kid, I watched the news with my dad.  Every so often I would ask a question and dad would try to answer it in a way child my age might understand.  I remember the Cuban missile crisis, and being trained at school to climb under my desk and cover my head in case the Russians launched missiles from Cuba, or “Cuber,” as President Kennedy would say it, all very serious stuff. I remember Vietnam, the anti-war riots during th

Restore Power to the People

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When asked the proper division of political power between the American people and their representatives in government, the author of the Declaration of Independence and third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, answered the following: “What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalising & concentrating all cares and powers into one body…And I do believe that if the Almighty has not decreed that Man shall never be free, that the secret will be found to be in the making himself the depository of the powers respecting himself, so far as he is competent to them, and delegating only what is beyond his competence by a synthetical process, to higher & higher orders of functionaries, so as to trust fewer and fewer powers, in proportion, as the trustees become more and more oligarchical.”   Jefferson recognized the self-evident truth of America’s founding, which is embodied in the U.S. Constituti