US Presidential Election, 2016

I have voted and diligently discharged my civic duty. I have voted for the candidate that I feel better qualified amongst the two finalists. Thanks to the democratic process that filters out and presents the final two candidates through the ballots. The organised early voting took only 20 minutes to complete the entire voting process.

Today from an altitude of 85-years, I have a simultaneous comprehension and appreciation of the relative heights of ego and the depths of submission in the ongoing political process. Fate and destiny are synonyms for choices made with conscious awareness. Sin and virtues are consciously cultivated habits and not proclamations by any outside authority. The destiny or fate of an individual is the sum total of its conscious choices; the same holds true for a Democratic Nation with its joint consciousness expressed through its ballots.

The “ Literacy of Life “ is not about the scholarship of alphabets, arithmetic and computing, but it is all about establishing harmony with the inside and outside environment, which includes the domestic and foreign politics. The political candidate that best fits this description as close as possible is the better choice to run the country as a President; to move it forward to a more meaningful all-inclusive prosperity.

Irrespective of who wins the US Presidency on the morning of 09 November 2016, the US democracy stands firmly on its footing of democratic governance. It is now 200 years since Thomas Jefferson’s retiring mode of ~ 1816. The inspiration from its firm democratic footing will continue to reaffirm all inclusiveness of individual freedom and progression to fulfillment of human endeavor.  The Nation will continue to reinvent itself exploring the possibilities and potentialities of free human spirit. Realising its inherent weaknesses as well as strengths, it will move on to better itself along with the free spirit of the world within which it exists as a free Nation.

It is a reality that for better or worse, US attracts the attention of the youthful world with its obvious Jeans, T-shirt and Backpack culture. As a result, US bears a heavy responsibility to behave itself.

Extrapolating from what someone had said earlier, America is right today, if Thomas Jefferson was right during Nov. 1816. America is wrong today, if Thomas Jefferson was wrong then. Right or wrong is subjective joint consciousness of the Nation as a whole.

Reiterating the theme that sins and virtues are both acts performed consciously and each act bears a corresponding consequence. This cosmic perspective holds as true for an individual as it does for a Nation as a joint consciousness. The emotional debt incurred through  imposed human slavery and inequalities is a sin that is carried over for generations to pay back in one form or another.

Following draft on Thomas Jefferson as an individual (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) and an American attracts inspirational attention. It behooves to choose your next President based on individual merit rather than ethnic, tribal or clannish dispositions. If you do not vote, you will have no right to complain for the next four years. So get your ass out and vote.

Thomas Jefferson ​Third President of USA​                          His Portrait is on the Two Dollar Bill.   Thomas Jefferson Was a very remarkable man who started Learning very Early in life and never stopped.   At 5, began Studying under his cousin's tutor.   At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.   At 14, studied Classical literature and additional languages.   At 16, entered The College of William and Mary. Also could write in Greek with one hand While writing the same in Latin with the other.   At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.   At 23, started His own law practice.   At 25, was Elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.   At 31, wrote the Widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America " And Retired from his law practice. At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.   At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence ​of  USA ​ .   At 33, took Three years to revise Virginia 's legal code and wrote a Public Education Bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.   At 36, was Elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Pat rick Henry.   At 40, served in Congress for two years.   At 41, was the American minister to France and Negotiated commercial treaties with European nations Along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.. At 46, served as The first Secretary of State Under George Washington.   At 53, served as Vice President and was elected President of the American Philosophical Society.   At 55, drafted The Kentucky Resolutions and Became the active head of Republican Party.   At 57, was Elected the third president of the United States .   At 60, obtained The Louisiana Purchase doubling The nation's Size.   At 61, was Elected to a second term as President.   At 65, retired To Monticello .   At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe   Doctrine.   At 81, almost Single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first President.   At 83, died on The 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along With John Adams.   Thomas Jefferson Knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood Actual history, the nature of God, His laws and the nature Of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand Today.   Jefferson really knew his stuff.   A voice from the past to lead us in the future:   John F. Kennedy Held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds In the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps The assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in The White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined Alone."   "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe ." -- Thomas Jefferson   "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those Who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -- Thomas Jefferson   "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." -- Thomas Jefferson   "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government From wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson

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