John Adams said this, and I think it's worth remembering.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

1. KnR...

Back in grade school when we were in trouble our teachers would have us write the Gettysburg Address or the opening of the Bill of Rights 50 or 100 times it had to be legible or we did it over again.

The Senators that signed on the “Friend of the Court” brief should be forced to write that at least 100 x’s maybe a little of it may sink in.

[hlthe2b]

2. Member of the early Federalist Party, which was an early predecessor to the Republican Party--ironic

--much as having Lincoln the most lauded representative of the Republican Party is today.

[soldierant]

38. All, or almost all, the Federalists are ironic today

because they actually had principles.

And - if everyone had principles - some of their ideas might actually work. buy no means all of them, but some of them, as opposed to ZERO today.

[dchill]

3. To which any current Republican would reply...

How quaint.

[Hortensis]

4. +Million. Thanks for posting, Peggy.

[BComplex]

5. I wish this was on every billboard in the United States.

It would help put an end to the lie of the reagan era: "government IS the problem".

When in truth, government HATERS are the problem.

[Tommymac]

7. +1776

[plimsoll]

13. No, Reagan just left out one key word.

GOP government isn’t the solution, GOP government is the problem.

That’s factually accurate and truthful. That’s how you know they didn’t say it.

[BComplex]

14. Good point! n/t

[Mr.Bill]

22. If government was the problem,

why did he want to be in charge of it?

[Wounded Bear]

24. I refuse to vote for people whose stated purpose is to destroy the government...

So, I don't vote for a lot of Repubs, and no libertarians.

[UpInArms]

39. This 👆🏼

Why should people who do not believe in government get the opportunity to destroy it?

[plimsoll]

31. Well, it's not specifically to destroy government.

It's to use the government to choose favorites. Favorite vendors, favorite CEOs. People who can do you favors and will reward you. Trump isn't a new phenomenon in the GOP, he's just more personally motivated and open about the grift.

The destruction happens because you need to place people who will either turn a blind eye to corruption or not realize that it's bad for society. People like that will allow our society to degrade. So we should be asking ourselves, "why is the GOP so vocal about our declining society but at the same time taking actions to insure that decline." There's money to be made!

It's not the size of the government, it's the integrity of that government.

[mgardener]

6. Thanks!

[judesedit]

8. Yes

I'll share through my contacts. I don't do facebook or twitter. Thank you for posting that

[MyOwnPeace]

9. Irony, indeed..................

John Adams left town and did not attend the swearing in of his successor, Thomas Jefferson.

Not that there's ANY thing in common between President Adams and BunkerBoy!

[RVN VET71]

19. Except maybe the Alien and Sedition Acts

Never understood how His Rotundity came to think that a bald faced attempt to stifle criticism of the president could do anything but damage his otherwise considerable legacy. Defending the British soldiers who committed what American history has come to call "The Boston Massacre" was unpopular in the day but actually a sign of moral courage -- plus, he got them off. But outlawing criticism of him and his administration while at the same time attacking non-citizens, well, it just doesn't sit well, not with today's genuine conservatives and not with todays liberals.

[FakeNoose]

20. It's interesting that after a long and bitter rivalry, Jefferson and Adams became friends

They became penpals when they were both too old to travel and meet up. The letters they exchanged have been collected and commented on by historians, it's actually a cool story.

[MyOwnPeace]

21. And they both died on the same day!

July 4, 1826!!!!

[MoonchildCA]

41. Beat me to it.

[wendyb-NC]

10. !00%

Thanks for sharing. It should be posted every where.

[smirkymonkey]

11. K&R

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

12. Yes. it's a great point of view.

I only wish more people followed it. I've always said the common person needs government to protect them from corporations. I know that to be true...……….

[DFW]

15. Show that to any Republican today, without attribution

And they‘ll chew you out for spouting „soshalist kommanist“ propaganda. Tell them who said it and they simply won‘t believe you.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. John Adams took this country more seriously than anybody

and left a volume of papers and writings. David McCullough's bio is a great read, especially for the parts we don't usually know - Ambassador Adams and the like. Unfortunately he's remembered too often for the Alien & Sedition Acts and the First Amendment suppression they engendered.

[geardaddy]

17. Spot on CP!

[malchickiwick]

18. Adams would have won the 1800 election but for the 3/5ths Clause.

The Constitution did not just condone the institution of chattel slavery, it actively rewarded states with undue political representation in the House and the Electoral College for increasing their numbers of enslaved people. It is not an accident that except for Adams and his son, all the presidents in the first 50 years of the republic were from slave states. Just like now, the slave state racists were an overall minority of the population, but they wielded outsized political clout over national issues thanks to the structure of the Constitution, built-in, by the way, as appeasements to racist slavers in 1787.

Jefferson only won in the EC because slavers like him were entitled to count their enslaved and tortured labor force in the census.

For the record, I don't think much of Adams' 4 years. He was a much better patriot than he was a president, and the A&S Acts are a real embarrassing stain on his legacy. But he wasn't a slaver/torturer/rapist like Jefferson, and had he won in 1800, and had the country not consistently bent over backward to do the bidding of the worst human beings on earth, we would certainly have a much more perfect union.

[grantcart]

26. Interesting points

[misanthrope]

30. Well said

Thank you.

[Kablooie]

23. Sit down John! For god's sake John sit down!

Says the whole Republican party.

[Horse with no Name]

25. Absolutely Sweet Peggy

Happy Holidays!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

27. Happy Holidays to you too, my dear Horse with no Name!

And thanks.

[BobTheSubgenius]

28. Whoever posted this before must have really been looking hard for clickbait.

"If You Agree..." Who the hell would disagree??? No one I know, or want to know.

[niyad]

29. Thank you so much for posting this, Peggy. pity they didn't "Remember the Ladies", as we are

still fighting that battle today.

Wishing you and yours a safe and wonderful holiday.

[Nitram]

32. That is what I learned in school, but Republicans apparently never got the message.

[11 Bravo]

33. My dear California Peggy, thanks for the timely reminder.

[Permanut]

34. Sounds like one o' them Socialists..

One o' them commie, feminist anti-US globalist, tree-huggin', snowflake gun-grabbin' baby killin', big gubmint libtards to me.

Oh, wait, did you say John Adams, one of the FOUNDIN' FATHERS? Musta been a different John Adams.

[TigressDem]

35. YES!! K&R

[czarjak]

36. Eerily like that book that nothing beats, that It's never read?

[whathehell]

37. Yes, and Hell Yes..

[Demovictory9]

40. K&r