Presidential Bookends John F. Kennedy and Joe Biden Crying Out: Wake Up!

I write to all Americans under fifty-years-old, pleading on behalf of all Americans under thirty-years-old who don’t know the trouble we, and they will see, if we fail to unite, to actually embody the truths we’ve claimed to be since Lincoln’s emancipating Gettysburg Address.

Current Financial Truths:

• Inflation at lowest point in 2 1/2 years
• Unemployment rate below 4% for longest time since 1960s
• American economy defies Recession predictions

Yet, our post-Watergate loss of faith in government, most Americans are in voter accountability denial regarding the Governors, members of Congress and Presidents we elect.

We 2023 Americans need to recapture the best within us to alleviate both our inner turmoil, for reality check on our individual responsibility for it.

Perhaps President Kennedy’s physical, intellectual and political courage might inspire us: to thy own Constitution, be true.

• August 1943 — saving his crew after PT-109 was sunk by enemy destroyer.
• April 1961 — endured CIA betrayal
• October 1962 saving world from Cuban nuclear Missile Crisis despite General Curtis LeMay & others disobeying his orders

Joe Biden isn’t as youthful, witty or charismatic as our thirty-fifth, forty-six-year-old president, but despite being born with a stutter, the death of his first wife and daughter and the loss of his forty-six-year-old son Beau to Brain Cancer, our 46th president remains an intellectually savvy, emotionally calm and politicly steady negotiator with a respectful embrace of both Constitutional law and his Roman Catholic faith — in the face of America’s enemies within, and the foreign demagogues they choose to imitate. And, like Presidents Carter and Clinton, President Biden remains committed to a two-state solution in the Middle East.

In the 1860s, Lincoln was challenged to save America. In the 1960s, Kennedy was challenged to save the entire world — and both made the ultimate sacrifice to fulfill their oath to do so.

These presidents earned our respect, gratitude and Hail to the Chief.

In stark contrast, the 6 January 2021 domestic terrorism by gullible MAGA insurrectionists programmed to destroy American democracy, stains our American Dream with Right-Wing religious hypocrisy in a faux patriotic cesspool too akin to that of Ordinary Men who were willing to shoot German Jews, to camouflage their cowardice.

It is for honest, reasonable voting patriots to alleviate our inner turmoil by exorcising from our nation’s bowels any violent pretense of American patriotism.

Like President Kennedy, it could be said that America is in danger of receiving, the last rites, again- not because of the age of President Joe Biden, who clearly recognizes the humanitarian pragmatism of the world’s two most powerful economies and militaries needing to communicate, if not for world peace, at least for global co-existence.

Nonetheless, as Pennsylvania’s John Dickinson said, most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

In other words: when easy access to guns is our default choice against real or imagined economic fear driven anger, America reaps the futility of divorcing, ask what you can do for your country, to wed itself to leaders who rant that we can gain the entire world without losing our national soul to self-destruction.

2023 third party candidates and non-voters are shoving American democracy under the boot of an Ol’ Time Religion demonically twisted by Corporatism’s bottom line and the corrupted political egos it rents.

On 11 October 1963, forty-two days before President Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas Texas, he wrote a National Security Action Memoranda number 263 (NSAM 263) titled, “South Vietnam” — stating his intention for a complete withdrawal of America’s 17,000 Advisors in South Vietnam.

Had LBJ not ignored it, there would have been no

• American Vietnam War
• 58,220 military deaths
• POW John McCain
• Divided America: young vs. experienced

Time is running out for American voters to keep an essential promise: unedited Education, unburned books and unlimited intellectual curiosity for the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Imagine, the oldest democracy in the world failing to rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, because the youngest voters among us betrayed the future of Americans younger than they.

Until Americans of every race, color, creed and age vote, there can be no thank God Almighty, we are free at last, Home of the Brave!

Until all Americans vote to preserve, protect and defend all of our history, healthcare needs and books, there will be no, Land of the Free.

Until legal voters, eighteen and older, actually vote, America’s next moment is not guaranteed.

There are many things in life we cannot change, but nothing we cannot change, if first, we reengage peace through civility and mutual respect.

Originally published at https://thereasonablevoices.wordpress.com on November 21, 2023.