Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Lincoln on Mt. Rushmore.
A sculptor named Borglum chose the four because he thought they led the country during important times and made decisions that shaped the future of the country.
I would not disagree with any of those choices, and I would add that those four led us through important and difficult times. They did not create the difficulties in which we found ourselves, as at least one more recent president has done.
It’s the times in which the woman or man finds her or himself that often brings out the good qualities and makes the individual someone for us to look up to. Unfortunately, the opposite is also sometimes true.
There will be difficult times ahead.
Proposed: Let’s start planning now and start a go-fund it for the next four faces to go up on the side of that mountain. We know not what gender, complexion, or ethnicity those faces might be, but we do know that when problems inevitably arise, someone of good character will be available. Hopefully those will be the people we will have elected.
Abolish Presidents Day, they are not gods. Or so I think.
If we insist on worshipping in the church of government, we could have Congressmen Day and Justices Day to give the other branches their holy days. And we must not forget the pantheon of bureaucrats and promulgators. That’s it, more government holidays so they have less time to govern.
Which difficulty do you think Trump created?
Sorry, you may not characterize my reliance on the rule of law as some sort of religious syncophantism. Ronald Reagan proposed smaller and less intrusive government. I agree. I do not agree with recent knuckleheads who have perverted that ideal by stupidly converting it into an anti-government mantra. We are not at war yet, and I am decidedly unwilling to be in one.
Richard, you are not the first to disingenuously asked “Which difficulty” did ex-president Trump create. You get the same answer the others got. Come on man! Stop ignoring the facts as they are being presented to all who care enough to listen. More hearings next week! The next hearing will focus on some of those aforementioned knuckleheads. You know, the ones who attacked the capitol and tried to disrupt the peaceful operation of American Democracy.