If you ever sat there after reading the lines and wondered, what did it feel like to stand upon a foreign and very dangerous shore and hear your captain give the order to "burn the ships" well, now you know.
It really is a lot of fun to watch history in the making as the President finally takes command of the Executive Branch and starts to bring it into line with the actual Constitution. It has taken much longer than most people realize to start to destroy the State that crept and then leapt into being with FDR and his fellow travelers.
I'll tell you who was 'not onboard' with the order to burn the ships. That's right, the sailors like me who owned those ships and also planned to sail home on those ships regardless of what happened to ole Hernán Cortés and his merry band of soldiers and priests. I picture their modern counterparts still in the government sitting there in their offices (just the tiny handful that aren't 'working' from home) and shaking their heads in misery as they watch their sinecures and lifetime employment going up in flames.
I suspect that hate as a motivator isn’t quite the thing to rebuild civil society on but it looks it is all many people have left to give so the journey may be a little bumpy. On the gripping hand, there is the path down which Stalin went but I don’t really see us sending the haters off to spend the rest of their miserable lives digging a new White Sea Canal. Anyway, canals never really worked on this continent.
A new government, but smaller and more responsible to the people.
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