I would encourage mikesez to study the history of the Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and the amount of work that was put into them.  To learn who influenced them and collaborated to create them, and the historical societies and works they studied, and the books they wrote along the way... all the things that were combined to create the greatest nation.  They went way back to the works of Plato and others.  It's a fascinating history.

They applied "best practices" before the concept even existed.

They were much wiser and more focused than any politician or philosopher you could find today.  It could never be written today.  Today's politicians no longer know how to represent.  Only how to get elected.  That's the game it's become.  Yes, the founders warned us of that, too.  They were that good, and we've become that bad.  Today's politician has lost sight of what they're meant to be, and are slave to the game because one man can't beat it alone.

That's why it's refreshing to have an outsider in office shaking up the establishment.  We need so much more of that to get our federal government back on track to what it's supposed to be.  Lean and working in our best interest by leaving the majority of governing power to the states.  We need more independent thinking, solutions-based problem solvers and not outrage artists out to buy votes with emotions and legislate token feels in response.

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