This post by John Buchanan’s “Hold to the Good” is well worth the read IMHO. John is Pastor Emeritus of Fourth Presbyterian Church-Chicago, past Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, and recently retired Publisher of The Christian Century.
Thank you, John, for your fine work than and now.
- Gordon and Steve
I simply do not know what to say about Donald Trump. I grew up in a home where what was going on in the world and in the nation was talked about regularly at the dinner table. Politics was often a spirited discussion between my father, a dyed-in-the-wool Republican and conservative in almost all his opinions and positions, and my mother who I realized was a lot less ideological and more liberal. He didn’t have much good to say about President Roosevelt and Eleanor but she liked them a lot. Dad used to brag that the first words I spoke as a toddler were “Wendell Wilkie”, the Republican presidential candidate in the 1940 election, an election FDR won handily. I still have his Republican campaign lapel pin bearing Wilkie’s picture from that election. Robert Taft, Harold Stassen, Earl Warren, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Nelson Rockefeller, were familiar names to…
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Excellent article.
I signed on to be a delegate at Democratic convention in white bear in March. Time to get involved!
I think John Adams was right. A democracy doesn’t last. History shows us they implode. We are imploding. It’s tragic what’s happening.
This is peasant’s revolt!
Keep up your writing.
Faith
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Hi, Faith, Congratulations on getting involved. Wonderful! I, too, thought John’s piece was on target. Thanks for the encouragment to keep on writing. Hope you’re well!
G
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