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President Biden`s 4th annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress will start at 9 PM ET
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Today, we honor and celebrate all those who have served in America`s highest office across our nation`s remarkable history. 🗽
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Remembering America`s 32nd and longest-serving president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882. His leadership guided the nation through both the Great Depression and WWII.
We don`t take your votes for "granite," New Hampshirites! Stay safe and warm as you cast your ballots, Granite Staters! 🥶🗳️
Today, we celebrate Benjamin Franklin`s 318th birthday. The course of history took a positive turn on January 17, 1706, in Boston, MA, when Josiah and Abiah Franklin welcomed their 15th child, Benjamin. The world would never be the same. 🗽⚡
We now know humans are, on average, 99.6% genetically identical. Skin pigmentation is related to where our ancestors migrated post-Africa. Race is a social construct, not genetic. There is only one race, the human race. Let`s celebrate MLKJ`s legacy by making his dream a reality.
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Benjamin Franklin, writing under the pseudonym Richard Saunders (AKA "Poor Richard"), published Poor Richard's Almanack from 1732 to 1758. The almanack provided useful information, proverbial wisdom, and humor to the American colonies.
In keeping with Franklin's legacy, Poor Richard's Blog tackles today’s complex issues and the foundations of the Franklin Party, while hopefully also dispensing some wisdom and good humor along the way.
Welcome to the Franklin Party Newsletter!
A Recipe For Disaster
By now we’ve all heard the saying “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
While this may not be the dictionary definition of insanity, expecting the same conditions to produce a different outcome is an indication of ignorance, willful or otherwise.
In fact, knowing that the same conditions produce the same results has been foundational to human success. It’s how we learned to cook, farm, and built jet airplanes.
This reliable reproduction of outcomes is also how recipes work. If you don’t change a recipe, it will always deliver the same product, good or bad.
In America it’s apparent we have unfortunately been running a recipe for producing mass shootings. And if we don’t change, we can reasonably expect more of the same.
A number of ideas have been proposed to fix this deadly recipe, including:
None of these ideas are new. All of them have been proposed before. Any one of them will alter the recipe. By themselves, and even collectively, these ideas will likely not completely end mass shootings, but the evidence shows they will reduce their frequency and fatality.
As a country we have been at this point too many times before. Columbine. Sandy Hook. Parkland. Orlando. Virginia Tech. Las Vegas. After each of these incidents, Congress failed to act.
And now we have the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings. Let’s make sure Congressional inaction doesn’t happen again.
At the Benjamin Franklin Party, we believe it is the duty of government to protect its people, and if elected, that’s what we will do.
Let’s fix the recipe.
Yours in republic keeping,
James Carroll
BFPNC Chair
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