It’s too bad the world of sport does not influence the world at large. Two days ago, Czech tennis player Barbora Krejcikova defeated Italian player Jasmine Paolini. The women embraced at net — one humbly jubilant, the other, bravely crestfallen. For two hours, each had waged war on English soil to annihilate the other. What followed, of course, was a love fest of sportsmanship, humility and joy. Millions of people worldwide — people of every ideological persuasion — put aside their political differences — and happily embraced the ideals of accomplishment, fairness and good will. Those ideals inhabit all individual and team sport. And certainly no one questions the rightness of meritocracy. No one begrudges the privileged lifestyle of wealthy athletes. The fame. The good life. The money. They earned it, you see. Unfortunately, sport is the only enterprise that receives the outpouring of respect. You won’t see any reverence for business ventures and many other enterprises,  private or public. You don’t need to be a hotshot historian to know that, except for sport, the rest of the world is a bloody dog-eat-dog mess, having very little interest in ideals like sportsmanship and fair play. It so happens that too many people  have too little interest in having respect for one another. Human beings readily make war and kill each other, having been persuaded by a King or a President that people who need killing deserve killing. To be fair, human beings have worked wonders for the human race. Civilizations have thrived and prospered amidst the ever present carnage. You shouldn’t think that 2024 is different from 1424, 924 or 124. You see, the same cast of characters, Kings and peasants alike, populate their respective countries, century after century, repeating acts of genocide while simultaneously creating great achievements of human ingenuity, America is such a country. In Her early history, America was a colonial property owned by a massive Kingdom. At the time, most (if not all) countries were autocracies. Disaffected and idealistic, America’s rebellious Founders decided to embark on an outrageous proposition that was promptly called preposterous, foolish, senseless. You know the story. It’s the story that changed the world — the story that would dare to eliminate tyranny and embrace the ideals of individual liberty. No one, even the courageous Founders themselves, could have anticipated that free Americans in a free country, left alone to freely seek their fortunes, would create a magnificent nation, the envy of the world. As America thrived and prospered, freedom required Her to wage war, persuaded by a President and Congress that people who need killing deserve killing — amongst them 620,000 fellow citizens living on precious homeland soil. As the decades passed, America predictably betrayed Her founding covenant, and today the people are inexorably divided. Now, too many people have too little interest in having respect for one another; and worse, too many people harbor hostility for one another. Thus, America is at war. It happens to be a cold war, punctuated by violence, as evidenced by the attempted assassination of D. Trump. America is sick, drowning in catastrophic debt, corruption.and political venality. The sickness will not heal until Federal tyranny ends. That is a simple fact. The sickness won’t heal until the Federal Government relinquishes majority power to the sovereign States. The solution seems simplistic but writers do have that tendency — to be impatient, to oversimplify, to act immediately — while there is still time. No one, Trump included, can fix political pestilence. You see, the Founders had it exactly right, giving the Federal Government narrow powers and giving the States broad powers. Based on centuries of evidence, they understood that unlimited Federal power must always lead to tyranny. Undeniably, it follows that government is wholly responsible for America’s turmoil and strife. However, given the assurance that Federal power is strictly limited and fiscally shackled, the American people should never fear the outcome of an election —  and finally can put aside acrimony, animosity and hostility. Does this mean they can resolve all political differences? Most assuredly, not. But one day, maybe the people can compete on the political field of play — honorably and peacefully. And maybe America can salvage Her original principles.

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