Dear Elaine
Thanks for sending your "thoughts."
John Adams would not have "loved the uneducated" for the very reasons that Donald Trump does. Adams would have educated them. https://www.youtube.
Having just watched the Ken Burns' documentary series for the second time, it seems that a simple test to determine if a person is interested in becoming educated is to see if they are willing to view (or at least "check out") "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History," covering 104 years in the lives of Teddy Roosevelt (a Republican Presidents), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a Democratic president), and Eleanor Roosevelt, a progressive activist and wife of FDR.
If one watches this documentary and is not convinced that the Roosevelts showed the way of loyal citizenship and public service (whereas Donald Trump, by comparison, does not) then that person is, in my view, irredeemable, except as a political cipher to be manipulated by thoughtless political passions.
John Adams, second president of the United States
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Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts On The Cornerstone Necessity Of Education
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Samuel Adams and John Adams were second cousins.
Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts On The Cornerstone Necessity Of Education
Elaine, I'm interested to know if you remain a Trump supporter.
I also encourate you to check out "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" which currently streams on Netflix. (Among my five favorite presidents, 3 are Republican - Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower whose Farewell speech was the most couragious talk ever given in the Oval Office:
Eisenhower Reveals THE DEEP STATE: Ike's Farewell Address Televised From The Oval Office Sounds The Alarm That The "Military-Industrial Complex" Comprises The Greatest Threat To American Democracy By Making Us A Murderous Corporatocracy
In addition to being a highly-regarded work of historical documentation, the stem-to-stern drama of "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" is every bit as engaging as the best movies I've seen recently - including "Inherit the Wind" (with Spencer Tracy), "Dial M for Murder" (by Alfred Hitchcock), "Twelve Angry Men" (with Henry Fonda), Dickens' "Great Expectations" (the 2011-2012 television mini-series), and Disney's feature length animation, "Scrooge."
Wishing you all good things.
Pax et amor
Alan 
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