At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when an exhausted, now in failing health, Benjamin Franklin emerged from the nearly four-months long grueling ordeal, the story goes, as chronicled by one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention, Dr. James McHenry, “A lady asked Dr. Franklin, ‘Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?’ ‘A republic, replied the Doctor, if you can keep it.'” Unfortunately, Franklin’s response was all too prescient and portentous. Only 221 years after that lengthy, hard-fought political mêlée in which the details of a republic were hammered out ended, the generations extant in 2008 indeed failed to “keep it.” The democratic republic the Founding Fathers entrusted to the stewardship of future generations was indeed supplanted and replaced with a Marxist oligarchy that is so entrenched in every aspect of the federal government, in particular—elected and otherwise—that arresting and reversing it, and extirpating its constituency of Marxist operatives from the federal bureaucracy, will be an extremely arduous and protracted undertaking that may very well require decades to accomplish.
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