{"id":586,"date":"2016-07-03T17:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T17:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2016-07-03T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T17:48:15","slug":"independence-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Independence day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spending time over the last two years in both Boston and Virginia learning about the revolutionary war and incidiary environment which bred the realization that there could be a better world.<\/p>\n

Saw statistics today that less than 30% of our United States of America have faith in their government, less than 15% have faith in their president, less than 5% have faith in their Congress.<\/p>\n

Close to 70% do not believe our government has our best interest at heart and close to as many are disillusioned by the corrupt self-serving nature of our government (what we call special interest groups and lobbying).<\/p>\n

I don’t have the details available to review the validity of the methods used to gather these stastics, but it speaks to what I hear in society from both the left and the right.<\/p>\n

What would the founding fathers think and say? \u00a0How do we fix what is so obviously, terribly broken?<\/p>\n

Saw this floating around on Facebook today which gave me pause to contemplate this post.<\/p>\n

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It is not July 4th we are celebrating, it is independence day – yet tyranny and oppression come in many forms.<\/p>\n

What’s next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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