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While leaving the constitutional convention in 1787, a passerby asked Ben Franklin whether the new government would be a Republic or a Monarchy. \u201cA Republic, if you can keep it<\/a>,\u201d was Franklin\u2019s famous reply.\u00a0 His words echo across the centuries.\u00a0 Can we keep it?\u00a0 There have been many challenges to our great republic over the years, but never since the civil war have the foundations of our republic been so shaken as they are today.<\/span><\/p>\n The threat comes from the Republican Party, their criminal corporate cronies, and a handful of DINOs that goose step behind the Republican leadership in betrayal of America.\u00a0 They would transform America from a democratic republic into a fascist corporate plutocracy, a regime of one-party Republican rule.<\/span><\/p>\n Every 4th of July, I make it a point to reread the Declaration of Independence<\/a>.\u00a0 Every 4th of July, I cannot help but notice how many of our founding fathers\u2019 grievances against King George still fit Republican policies.<\/span><\/p>\n Can we keep it?\u00a0 That\u2019s up to you and I.\u00a0 I see it as a two step process.\u00a0 Admittedly the Democratic Party is a swamp, but doing anything about it is very difficult, as long as it is infested with vicious Republican alligators.\u00a0 Therefore step one has to be pest control.\u00a0 Exterminate the alligators (politically speaking, only).\u00a0 The Republican Party must follow the Whigs into political oblivion.\u00a0 Then it will be time to drain the swamp in step two.<\/span><\/p>\n I wish you all a happy Independence Day, rich in all the blessings you deserve.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While leaving the constitutional convention in 1787, a passerby asked Ben Franklin whether the new government would be a Republic or a Monarchy. \u201cA Republic, if you can keep it,\u201d was Franklin\u2019s famous reply.\u00a0 His words echo across the centuries.\u00a0 Can we keep it?\u00a0 There have been many challenges to our great republic over the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,141,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-personal","category-plus","category-politics","category-19-id","category-3-id","category-141-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}