The incoming Trump Administration should listen to the advice of President John Adams who wrote in the 18th century " We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant that they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance not learning. By contracted hearts not large souls. There is one thing my dear sir, that must be attempted and most sacredly observed or we are all undone. There must be decency and respect and veneration introduced for persons of authority of every rank, or we are undone. In a popular government, this is our only way.
Peter Steere
West side
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