2009-08-04T09:58:00.000-07:00

Those who fail to acknowledge and learn from the trends that shape history will fall prey to the lessons they failed to learn.

It has been my experience that most people dislike history. I have always loved it and the events of life that appear to be a mystery to most are as obvious to me as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.

No democracy has ever survived for more than a few hundred years. Isn’t that the challenge we face?

When I was 20 years old, my father and I got into a discussion about the Presidential election of Nixon vs. Humphrey vs. Wallace. He told me that the people are not smart enough to elect a President. He said that when it was done in smoke-filled rooms, it was a better system. My attitude at the time was 2,000 percent All-American defender of Grandma, apple pie and the American flag and my father's words made my red blood boil.

I told my Dad he was crazy and ridiculous, but thirty nine years later I see that he had a point. It’s not the democratic system that is flawed, but the people charged with running the system. They are unprepared to accept the burden and responsibility self-governance demands.

Every post I contribute to this blog will stem from and relate back to this position.

Samuel J. Lucci III

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