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POLITICS IN AMERICA

When we talk about 'politics' - essentially it's supposed to refer to governing policy - but over the centuries of distortion, politics has evolved from beliefs and principles to strategy and maneuvers. The "troops" and I haven't posted anything since the end of May, but not because anyone became ill or we're tired or otherwise distracted - but because we've deliberately sat back to 'watch' events as they unfolded around us here - and the globe in general... And, in America's corner of this globe the view from the vantage point of our single and combined ages around my virtual kitchen table - is disturbing. There was a book published in 1969 titled "The Peter Principle". The basic premise of the work by author Laurence J. Peter was; " In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his [her] level of incompetence ." The problem with America's democratic republic is that too many people in politics start righ