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Sign on Broad Street in Pataskala, Ohio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1858<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.\u201d  – Abraham Lincoln, September 2, 1858<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One hundred and sixty two years ago, at the crest of another national crisis, Abraham Lincoln described the American people.  It was during the Senatorial election of 1858, and Lincoln was the candidate of the new Republican Party.  Republicans were not quite an \u201cabolitionist\u201d Party, but they tended towards limiting and ultimately ending slavery.  As Lincoln said, only a week after his \u201cfool the people\u201d phrase: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have no doubt that (<\/em>slavery) would become extinct, for all time to come, if we but re-adopted the policy of the fathers by restricting it to the limits it has already covered–restricting it from the new territories\u201d.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincoln was running against his Illinois rival, Stephen Douglas.  \u201cThe Little Giant\u201d, standing 5\u20194\u201d a full 12\u201d shorter than Lincoln, was the incumbent.  He already had served in the United States Senate for eleven years.  During that time, he made his name as a man who could reach the middle.  His best-known legislation was the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowing the people of the territories themselves to vote to determine whether to be slave or free states, a concept called popular sovereignty.   This altered the almost forty-year old \u201cMissouri Compromise\u201d, the agreement that drew \u201ca line\u201d across the nation:  north free, south slave.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who\u2019s the Fool<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Lincoln lost the Senate election, and Douglas returned to Washington as the Democratic Senator from Illinois.\u00a0\u00a0But over the next two years \u201cpopular sovereignty\u201d created division, the Dred Scott Decision emboldened the South, and the era of compromise finally ended.\u00a0\u00a0Lincoln and Douglas would compete again, this time for the Presidency in 1860.\u00a0\u00a0And this time, it was Lincoln who won.\u00a0\u00a0We know the rest of that story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the question is:\u00a0\u00a0were the American voters of the 1850\u2019s, fooled to\u00a0\u00a0vote for compromise, or were the voters who voted for or against slavery the fools? Lincoln would say that in 1860, the American people stopped being fooled.\u00a0\u00a0However, Lincoln earned less than 40% of the popular vote in a four-way election.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern Fools<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I believe in another Presidential characterization of American people: the \u201crighteous might\u201d of Franklin Roosevelt.  For the past several years, our citizens have had to learn to deal with a \u201cfire hose\u201d of Internet information, some of it real, and lots of it faked.  What we thought of as \u201ctrue fact\u201d in 2012; we now understand was faked by those with an axe to grind, a joke to tell, or even by foreign agents.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It still goes on today.  We are told that \u201cWayfair\u201d is selling children as furniture on its website, that wearing masks is the ultimate infringement on our First Amendment right to freedom of expression, and that President Obama abandoned testing of COVID-19.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is a change.  The \u201cfake news\u201d is now an Internet \u201csport\u201d.  We are titillated by the rumors, the marshaling of disparate facts to create a believable argument.  But we don\u2019t really buy it anymore, just as we stopped believing that President Obama was somehow born in Kenya, not Hawaii.  We were fooled \u201csome of the time,\u201d but we are reaching that \u201call of the time\u201d moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fools of 2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And in that way a large minority of Americans was \u201cfooled\u201d by Donald Trump.  Some believed that he was a successful businessman.  We now know, that he squandered billions on bad deals, so much so that no American bank would touch him.  Some believed that Trump understood the \u201ccommon man\u201d.  We know now that Trump\u2019s only interest was in mouthing the words that gained him votes.  The \u201ccommon men\u201d cheering at the rallies, were only fodder for Trump\u2019s version of \u201cfake news\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were those Americans so disenthralled with the concept of Hillary Clinton as President they took whatever alternative was offered.\u00a0\u00a0They are still there, chanting Benghazi and Pizzagate, full-whole fool swallowers of the Internet conspiracies.\u00a0\u00a0Or there are those who cannot imagine that a woman can fill the role.\u00a0\u00a0They aren\u2019t the fools of the Internet, but rather stuck in a misogynistic era of the 1950\u2019s, that Trump likes to harken back to as \u201cthe good old days\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And finally there were those supporters of the Grand Old Party, who stepped up and supported the \u201cR\u201d on the ticket even though they had doubts.  Now their doubts have been fully justified.  Whatever else that can be said about President Trump, his maladministration of the COVID-19 pandemic has left America broken.  His continued strategy of pretending it\u2019s going away, playing us a fool, simply makes our condition worse.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Righteous Might<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The American people have been \u201c\u2026fooled some of the time\u201d.  A small portion remain fooled now, the \u201call of the time\u201d crowd.  But all of the American people are not \u201cfooled all of the time\u201d.  The time has come for them to rise up in their \u201crighteous might\u201d to change the course of our nation, and our history.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, as George W. Bush and The Who <\/em>said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe won\u2019t get fooled again\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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