Stanley Kubrick?

You have to understand that not ALL of the Founding Fathers wanted to have slaves or have slavery in America. Spend a little more time reading, please.

Especially, read about the life of James Madison. Read his letters and what he did in his life. About how his slaves (or workers that he had live and fed) actually cried for him after his death. How he wanted to free his slaves but could not really find other labor for his family’s farms.

How the majority of people in America did not want to give up their slaves… Do you think that it would have been better that America would have fought again after the War of Independence against themselves in a Civil War???

You wanted the America to be completed unstable? As a matter of fact, if the Founding Fathers did not do what they did, we would not be here in America now… America would not have been the United States of America. The land that we are in right now, would have become as Europe is right now.

Separate nations.

But that would have gone against everything the War of Independence was all about. He set a great precedent of serving his two terms and gracefully leaving his office of President. (By away, he really did not want to be President in the first place, he wanted to retire to his farm in Mount Vernon).

Future generations of people in politics should follow his lead, to truly serve your time in office in the United States as a STATEMEN or STATEWOMAN. Notice I did not write policymaker or politician.

What is really lacking in America today is STATEMEN or STATEWOMAN. People who have achieved much in their lives and choose to serve their nation out of the kindness of their heart.

This is just my opinion and yes I grew up in New York City so I maybe biased, but I see that Michael Bloomberg, the current Mayor of New York City to be a STATEMAN.

Yes, slavery is bad. There is really no argument about that. But to actually have ten of thousands of people fight and die, that is NOT what America is all about.

If you think about what happened after the Civil War, things really did not change much. Opportunities for African Americans still was not great. Over the course of time, people starting to change their opinions about African Americans.

It took around one hundred years for the Civil Rights Movement to change things for African Americans and also other minor groups. Things changed because people stood up for their rights as human beings. People that would not stand for discrimination whether because of the color of their skin, their gender, or their ethnicity.

The bottom line is that Lincoln should have continued to find non-violent ways to deal with the issue of slavery.

Self Research has a great summary above, we should ALL be on guard when a new president admires leaders in the past who CENTRALIZED the POWERS of the FEDERAL Government over the STATE Governemnt in a REPUBLIC, suspended rights we have, and reshaped the entire structure of our society and republic.
It may be more efficient to centralize power and control, but it is certainly less representative! Regardless of political party, we are losing our freedoms!

For another example and perspective on history, power and control, read “Gangs of America”…”The rise of corporate power and the disabling of democracy” by Ted Nace….I do not agree with all of his conclusions about the evils of the modern day corporation but in his book he reviews Tom Scott, a rather obscure person in American history who was Abe Lincoln’s assistant secretay of war and part of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Tom Scott helped to make the Northern troop movements more efficient and effective which aided in the Norths victory, the unintended consequences of that was what it did to states rights and the construct of the modern corporation is quite stunning. I think you will find it an interesting read.