My position is as priceless as it is worthless to most stalwart Republicans (likewise to all other factions {aka: parties}) because until recently, I've been a lifelong Reagan Republican.
Now? Factions of every demonic misnomer occupy equal status with termite colonies. [Hey. They's par'n numbahs, ain't they?]
While I still strongly admire every genuine quality the man brought to DC - as well as how he brought DC and a clearer picture of the limitations of government into our living rooms - at the same time, I've begun to study the Constitution carefully. [Now, parties really bite the grub.]
I now see all presidents - and congresses - with whose legacies I'm familiar, under the new and vastly different light of the Constitution itself and of all those who contributed to its structure, of those who walked out and even those three who remained to the bitter end but refused to sign.
I have new admiration for JFK but not Ted and certainly not LBJ. I've gathered just enough fact to create more questions than answers about FDR, about the madness that befell Wilson and how much of his own legacy can be blamed on that illness... the list just goes on.
Lincoln is a new source of myriad conflicts of logic, given his antebellum stance on Constitutional adherence over his later and peculiarly out-of-character admiration for Henry Clay and a domineering central government at the expense of all justice.
Great video. Thanks.
Next time, send a shrink to untangle the worm-knot it tied my brains into.
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