Thank you for mentioning Richard Nixon. I am a big fan of the President, and believe he got a raw deal. History should consider “Tricky Dick “ as one of our greatest presidents. I was fortunate enough to have lived in Yorba Linda and visited his library and birthplace many times.
Nixon got it right many years earlier about the Deep State, Vietnam, overtures to China and Russia. Nixon knew all too well about the Deep State and unfortunately, was a victim of it.
What we see now in our political climate is something Nixon would have accurately predicted. The Deep State has morphed into a pinko, weirdo Democratic Party, overthrown by liberal elites and extreme activists. All while the press is in on it.
IMO, Nixon would be a huge Trump supporter, and especially how Trump has taken on the Deep State and the lunatics of the left. Stay tuned for Trump’s revealing later today, of the election fraud in Georgia.
Nixon ended the draft when my lottery number was 30 (not good). My wife's mother went to high school with him (she didn't like him). I still have a soft spot for him for cutting me loose.
Mr. Summer states "Learn from history. Vote as if your life depended upon it."
The ideology of division is the name of the game. Hey don't worry about it, we'll have community conferences and destruction of cities and neighborhoods will be explained and good for you.
We'll spend your tax money for failure because it is good for the environment.
Plant trees, forget the drought of the late 1990's in Santa Barbara that killed off most of the City of SB tree planting as a "Tree City." Does that make sense at a time when these same types are cementing over acres of land in the name of housing? You know housing to provide for a population, that for at least a decade has a reproduction rate of 1.5-1.6.
We need to have Vision Zero and interconnected bike and walking paths that have failed to attract people from autos..... In the process it has killed downtown Santa Barbara, but we know better crowd knows better. You know the same groups and people who beat the drum for "active transportation." Does it make sense? Think about the failures in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, and Goleta. Literally millions spent and where are they? (the alternative people?) Less than a mile of bike path in Carp. that cost millions when the alternative was in place a quarter of a mile away. The now trumpeted 100 miles of bike paths in Santa Barbara, and a company that has failed to get people to use their b-bikes with cars still on the streets. Project connect in Goleta that is costing tens of millions and has never had an comprehensive EIR.
And this is just the social justice attack, forget about physical attacks with open borders and drugs on society the Left has created in the past 20 years.... It is continuing, intentional, and a failure but sounds sooooo good how can you not destroy society to get what they want? Looking up it is time to go.... too long but you get my drift. So let's have another conference to paper over failure....
Learn from history. Vote as if your life depended upon it.
Thanks John..Imagine that tree being felled in that manner.
YEs about voting. Its SO important that we all get out and make our voices heard come these mid-terms when voters are usually complacent and turn out in low numbers. NOT THIS YEAR PLEASE!!!
Everyone please take a moment and vote for sanity and our country’s well being. We really don’t want socialist Democrats getting us off course
I read this "A Country Divided" article by a Civil War buff titled "Preserving The Union All Over Again By John Summer and I of course have a support title "The New Conflict between the Divided
States unlike the Civil War" and I quote from same "The once living oak tree originally stood on the battlefield of Spotsylvania, Virginia. One of the bloodiest battles of the entire Civil War. And it was felled by small arms fire. Hell fire. Catastrophic."
We do not have citizens now that will stand in battle lines of the Civil War willing to sacrifice their life's before "Hell Fire". What we have now are cheaters, liars, and backstabbers willing to climb the Political Ladder into Government and rule corruptly for power and money.
I leave you with a quote "“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.” – General George Patton Jr.
I have visited most of the major Civil War Battlefields and the men who faced each other in "Hell Fire" do not exist any longer as our Greatest Generation. All Gone and gone is their morality.
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
PS1- Do we currently have the leadership to address the New Crisis like President Lincoln? >>
"Leadership during the Greatest American Crisis" We are about to find out.
We are already in another crisis and have beenbfir a long time.
People rose up Covids draconian measures during JB.
Did you not see the division between. Citizens and the attacks on individual groups,Christianity,for one,during that time?
Or how voters already voted for their lives in the '24 elections and made it too big to Rig?
Now again we are fighting for our leaders, culture,children, andour country.
Make no mistake there are a few loud people and groups that make it seem like everyone thinks the same and the world is falling apart. They have rally after rally,yet nothing to be accomplished except some photo ops,news coverage and blowing off some steam.
The people who fought in'24 are still fighting the good fight.
The issue I have isn’t so much voter participation, although obviously important, it is the depth and the breadth of too many “voter’s” ignorance. We’ve all seen interviews with the person being interviewed cannot identify the most basic American institutions, historical figures or fundamental civics…let alone STEM courses.
That failure is attributable to the demonstrably flawed “education” system in this country…universities, public schools, teacher unions. It is by design and functions monolithically with no room for diversity of thought or expression. Throw in the mainstream media's participation and today's situation is baked in the cake.
The good news is perhaps the rapid expansion of alternative media and home schooling.
Thank you for mentioning Richard Nixon. I am a big fan of the President, and believe he got a raw deal. History should consider “Tricky Dick “ as one of our greatest presidents. I was fortunate enough to have lived in Yorba Linda and visited his library and birthplace many times.
Nixon got it right many years earlier about the Deep State, Vietnam, overtures to China and Russia. Nixon knew all too well about the Deep State and unfortunately, was a victim of it.
What we see now in our political climate is something Nixon would have accurately predicted. The Deep State has morphed into a pinko, weirdo Democratic Party, overthrown by liberal elites and extreme activists. All while the press is in on it.
IMO, Nixon would be a huge Trump supporter, and especially how Trump has taken on the Deep State and the lunatics of the left. Stay tuned for Trump’s revealing later today, of the election fraud in Georgia.
Nixon ended the draft when my lottery number was 30 (not good). My wife's mother went to high school with him (she didn't like him). I still have a soft spot for him for cutting me loose.
Nixon's mistake those days was catering to China rather than India
Mr. Summer states "Learn from history. Vote as if your life depended upon it."
The ideology of division is the name of the game. Hey don't worry about it, we'll have community conferences and destruction of cities and neighborhoods will be explained and good for you.
We'll spend your tax money for failure because it is good for the environment.
Plant trees, forget the drought of the late 1990's in Santa Barbara that killed off most of the City of SB tree planting as a "Tree City." Does that make sense at a time when these same types are cementing over acres of land in the name of housing? You know housing to provide for a population, that for at least a decade has a reproduction rate of 1.5-1.6.
We need to have Vision Zero and interconnected bike and walking paths that have failed to attract people from autos..... In the process it has killed downtown Santa Barbara, but we know better crowd knows better. You know the same groups and people who beat the drum for "active transportation." Does it make sense? Think about the failures in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, and Goleta. Literally millions spent and where are they? (the alternative people?) Less than a mile of bike path in Carp. that cost millions when the alternative was in place a quarter of a mile away. The now trumpeted 100 miles of bike paths in Santa Barbara, and a company that has failed to get people to use their b-bikes with cars still on the streets. Project connect in Goleta that is costing tens of millions and has never had an comprehensive EIR.
And this is just the social justice attack, forget about physical attacks with open borders and drugs on society the Left has created in the past 20 years.... It is continuing, intentional, and a failure but sounds sooooo good how can you not destroy society to get what they want? Looking up it is time to go.... too long but you get my drift. So let's have another conference to paper over failure....
Learn from history. Vote as if your life depended upon it.
Thank you JS, voices like yours and the comments that are shared, are deeply appreciated! Be brave, be strong, Vote Vote Vote
Thanks John..Imagine that tree being felled in that manner.
YEs about voting. Its SO important that we all get out and make our voices heard come these mid-terms when voters are usually complacent and turn out in low numbers. NOT THIS YEAR PLEASE!!!
Everyone please take a moment and vote for sanity and our country’s well being. We really don’t want socialist Democrats getting us off course
I read this "A Country Divided" article by a Civil War buff titled "Preserving The Union All Over Again By John Summer and I of course have a support title "The New Conflict between the Divided
States unlike the Civil War" and I quote from same "The once living oak tree originally stood on the battlefield of Spotsylvania, Virginia. One of the bloodiest battles of the entire Civil War. And it was felled by small arms fire. Hell fire. Catastrophic."
We do not have citizens now that will stand in battle lines of the Civil War willing to sacrifice their life's before "Hell Fire". What we have now are cheaters, liars, and backstabbers willing to climb the Political Ladder into Government and rule corruptly for power and money.
I leave you with a quote "“Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.” – General George Patton Jr.
I have visited most of the major Civil War Battlefields and the men who faced each other in "Hell Fire" do not exist any longer as our Greatest Generation. All Gone and gone is their morality.
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
PS1- Do we currently have the leadership to address the New Crisis like President Lincoln? >>
"Leadership during the Greatest American Crisis" We are about to find out.
https://www.friendsofthelincolncollection.org/lincoln-lore/lincoln-and-his-generals-leadership-during-the-greatest-american-crisis/
We are already in another crisis and have beenbfir a long time.
People rose up Covids draconian measures during JB.
Did you not see the division between. Citizens and the attacks on individual groups,Christianity,for one,during that time?
Or how voters already voted for their lives in the '24 elections and made it too big to Rig?
Now again we are fighting for our leaders, culture,children, andour country.
Make no mistake there are a few loud people and groups that make it seem like everyone thinks the same and the world is falling apart. They have rally after rally,yet nothing to be accomplished except some photo ops,news coverage and blowing off some steam.
The people who fought in'24 are still fighting the good fight.
I enjoyed reading your piece.
The issue I have isn’t so much voter participation, although obviously important, it is the depth and the breadth of too many “voter’s” ignorance. We’ve all seen interviews with the person being interviewed cannot identify the most basic American institutions, historical figures or fundamental civics…let alone STEM courses.
That failure is attributable to the demonstrably flawed “education” system in this country…universities, public schools, teacher unions. It is by design and functions monolithically with no room for diversity of thought or expression. Throw in the mainstream media's participation and today's situation is baked in the cake.
The good news is perhaps the rapid expansion of alternative media and home schooling.
Spot on.....
If the Country's current 'union' were a can of beans, it would be bulging at each end right now.