Throughout my years of travel, I found much to love in every city and every country I was privileged to visit. Yet I always held tight to my U.S. passport, considering myself the most fortunate of people for having been born under the greatest political system ever devised by man.

Today, that democracy — or republic, if you prefer — is under attack by destructive internal forces never before experienced in our 250-year history. I believe those forces will fail, due both to their innate rot and to the will of the people to prevent them from stealing what is ours.

Is the United States a perfect country? Of course not. Countries are comprised of people, who are themselves inherently imperfect. Perhaps a fellow advocate of democracy — not an American, but a great British friend and ally — expressed it best:

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

– Winston S. Churchill, 11 November 1947

Imperfect people have yet to devise a perfect form of government. And until someone does, we Americans will continue to fight for the survival of our democracy. We will tolerate no tyrants, no dictators, no fascists.

And NO KINGS.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
3/31/26