They Changed the World.

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Maybe some time look up something about the people in the picture above, as for the most part in their political careers, they believed in the greater power of good for everyone in America, and worked to their last days for this purpose.  The ideas they had were just to make things better for Americans so we could get more done and have more productive, fulfilling lives.  Many political and other organisations today are founded on these values, and especially on the ones that America is a special place that should not be sullied by petty agendas and "liars, fornicators, and backstabbers."  These people saw the terrain of their own country, with criticisms against it as not having a greater moral fibre, nor a common nor well - founded culture, as content to concentrate on populism and the media; and as a place ruled only by the wealthy, as one with great potentialities for everyone and a political - ideological elegance surpassed by none.  Now that they are all gone, and anew, social commentary has turned to self - criticism and doubt again, soul searching, and to an extent with our place in the unipolar world as grasping at straws at what to do about everybody's problems where these three seemed to have the solutions all worked out before in life.  It was perhaps against these folk that Americans internationally had gotten the reputation for some time as just being simple people, even those from the city, who were just "experts" in one narrow thing or another and who could be used time and again to solve problems and difficulties.  Maybe the only strike against any of these people or their colleagues, and dear ones, was they sacrificed everything for the good of their national public, even for those who were their adversaries in the political debates of the day.  In this way, we hardly knew them, or if we knew them it was only through the papers and the television.  Sometimes the sacrifices and deeds with merit that people do are called into question, especially in retrospect and by those willing to find fault in those pursuing the greater good and other perfections.  That the lives talked about on this page are not more celebrated due to the kind of doubting the public engages in today in the name of modernism and skepticism should be examined as well...  Not that we need worship our public servants as idols in the Old Testament, but that their lives, and even their faith or faiths be given a more neutral hearing or judgment, and that the constructive and again purposeful and productive things they did be more in relief against foibles and missteps.  That this column is set down in this way does not call for permissively dismissing the wrongs and the elbowing and even the pranks known to them as public servants, though how they upheld the state needs more attention and the successes accrued to it as the result should be better illustrated as well. 

 

THS