‘If you can keep it.’
Thus spake the libertine about the republic, and he spake wisely because he had a way with words, politics, human behavior and philandering.
Hey, no one’s perfect, certainly not now, and most certainly not back then.
But the libertine’s words endure, and so does his political legacy. Benjamin Franklin was a special Founder with a little something for, of, and by the ages.
And the commitment he spoke of is being tested as we speak, and has been for a while. The currency of the greatest (successful) political experiment in modern history is involved in a feeding frenzy that threatens to inflate, deflate, and devalue the body it underwrites. And the American coin has been tossed high again, spinning furiously, and where it lands over the next few years nobody knows (to paraphrase a singer songwriter of icy allure).
From your socratic Spin Doctor
