On Our Birthright

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

-Thomas Jefferson

There once were great and wise men leading our country. What happened that we are now led by venal, incompetent, mendacious, and shameless war-mongers? They rule with anger, ignorance, and lies, they bring debt and shame upon our nation. They scruple to nothing in their lust for power and lucre.

They hold those things most important to our world in contempt: respect, understanding, husbandry of the earth. The richest nation in the history of the world, which could do so much to make it a better place, has descended
to barbarism. Is wasting its power to enrich a few. And at such a cost!

We are becoming a nation of Esau's, our golden birthright sold for a mess of pottage.