The National Intel Report with John Stadtmiller, June 4, 2018 Hour 2

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From Donald Trump, to Jared (and father, Charles) Kushner and beyond, history has a funny way of repeating – in the worst ways, if we’re not careful (observant). The challenges we face in America today aren’t new – nor surprising.

They are issues dating back to time immemorial, and in our own unique and brief history of the great American Experiment, we’ve been repeatedly warned to pay attention, and exercise eternal vigilance.

Guest Host: Chris Hinkley, RBN host of Road Warrior Radio

The mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining in the different States, and which are employed altogether for their benefit; and unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address (March 4, 1837)

The complexity of social organization does not change. Our technologically sophisticated industrial society is more complex than the agrarian society of America in the eighteenth century. In this regard, that was ‘a simpler world’. But the complexities of politics (politics here meaning the science of governing) do not change much. The basic political problems confronting the Framers of our Constitution were as complex as our political problems today—perhaps more so, because they were striking off into the dangerous unknown, whereas all we need do is return to the fine highway we were once on.

Larry McDonald, We Hold These Truths: A Reverent Review of the U.S. Constitution (1976)

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