Our government has become a bit ugly in the manner by which it no longer seems to find it necessary to hide alliances with third party masters who make all of the high level decisions outside the perview of the electing public. (A trillion dollar bank bonanza being the latest example)

I have given thought to the idea that one impediment working against our ability to follow the spirit of Franklin’s post convention posit, “We have a republic, if we can keep it.” is the small number of representatives who occupy seats in our government, as the chicanery of collusion is aided by smaller groups.

Unfortunately, our no-longer-free press does not comprise a small group, and has nonetheless been co-opted with magnificent success by (naturally) the same third party “masters”.

If he were alive today, I don’t think Mr. Franklin would be very happy about our lot.

– Ron