[Huck]

Thanks. I appreciate the discussion. I admit I seek out threads where my interests are relevant. I don't mean to hijack, and have tried to be more judicious in my postings on that score. I try to temper my zeal and not hijack, and I am sensitive to that criticism.

Washington was uneducated compared to the other patriots andd founders. He didn't have the theoretical background they did. He was a military man with practical experience as his guide.

It makes sense that a man who was a supreme military commander, and a master of hundreds of slaves, would be more amenable to a strong central government. And for all I know he may have been right. Maybe we can do no better. I question the notion, and I point out the defects in our system, in the hope that some better system may one day be created, but I usually fall back on the notion that certain problems of humanity have no solution.

[Mere Survival]

So we fight for what’s right and what we believe in. Or we sit on our corrupt keisters and let the world go to hell in a handbasket while we play our games! I think there’s been too much keister sitting and not enough fighting (on my part at least). I enjoyed the two thread discussion too.