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    Make America Great At Last: So Easy A Caveman Could Do It
    Make America Great At Last: So Easy A Caveman Could Do It
    Make America Great At Last: So Easy A Caveman Could Do It
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    Make America Great At Last: So Easy A Caveman Could Do It

    By Frank G Schafer

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    A frank opinion about what is, and in many cases has always been wrong with our American form of Democracy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 15, 2021
    ISBN9781667810126
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      Make America Great At Last - Frank G Schafer

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      Copyright 2021

      This book is strictly an opinion piece, my opinions, and what I consider to be satire. Researching the material for this book, I found a few discrepancies as pertains to so-called facts. If it is found that something herein is not factual, I apologize in advance and will publicly admit a mistake if I made one and asked to do so.

      ISBN: 978-1-66781-011-9 (print)

      ISBN: 978-1-66781-012-6 (eBook)

      This book is dedicated to Linda and her mom, Anita

      Contents

      Introduction

      1 The Military

      2 Education

      3 Race Relations I

      4 Race Relations II

      5 The Homeless

      6 LGBTQ

      7 Inequality of the Sexes

      8 Health Care-Big Pharma

      9 Infra-structure

      10 Lobbying

      11 Term Limits

      12 Tweaking the Three Branches

      13 Immigration in America

      14 The Lying King and The Ball of Shit He Left Us With

      15 Religion

      16 Peoples Unions

      17 This And That

      18 A Case For Government By Lottery

      Introduction

      I put the writing of this book on hold for about a year because I was suffering from some long-term effects of COVID 19. I’m glad it worked out that way. So much has happened in the interim that I believe this little book is much better because of the delay.

      The election was held, and Biden won, and miracle of miracles, the Dems took the Senate by winning two seats in Georgia, can you say, Stacy Abrams? Without her amazing hard work, this could not have been possible.

      Of course, we also came within about a minute from Armageddon. (The Capitol attack) But for a brave and cleaver Capitol policeman who diverted an unruly mob away from Vice President Pence and some very important legislators, I may not have been able to write and publish this little book here at all. I believe we bit the bullet on 1/06/21.

      FYI, I will donate half of any money that comes my way from the sale of this book to the charities that represent The American Legion and The Veterans of Foreign Wars. I’ll bet you’re glad you bought it already.

      Now the original intro: I hope the title got your attention. And I’m sure as you go through these pages, you’ll think things like, exactly, I’ve always said that, so true, and things like I never knew that that couldn’t be, I’m gonna Google or Wiki that one.

      The idea that to fix America is so easy that a Caveman could do it is actually true. The problem is, we don’t have any Cavemen in charge. In reality, our leaders are mostly narcissistic men, who must spend more time raising money for their reelection and their party than they do legislating for us. We will expose these men, and a few women, dissect them and lay them bare. The history of our forefathers is not what most people think it was, and the government we have currently gets worse by the day.

      From slavery to Jim Crow and the continued inequality of our African American brothers and sisters, our indigenous folk, and our LGBT community, from Women’s Suffrage to the Woman’s Movement and the present, Me Too Movement. The wholesale slaughter of our children in our schools, of adults in movie theaters, concerts, bars, restaurants, churches, and synagogues. Illegal militia groups sprouting up like popcorn, the gun problem, et al. The budget deficits, the one trillion-dollar yearly defense spending, and this is just a tiny sampling of what we will discuss here. We can fix these things, and we must. We CAN create an America that will be Great at Last.

      I am Frank G Schafer, the writer of this introduction, and most of the main body of work contained herein. I am the author of the novel Sammy and various other vignettes of short story anthologies, novellas, novelettes, and poetry. Along with that, I am two things; I am as close to being a living caveman as a person can get, carrying a whopping 292 Neanderthal variants in my genome. I am also an ordinary middle-class American citizen with a blue-collar background who is trying to survive on this planet, just like most folks. The people currently in charge are not regular people, certainly not people like me, and probably not like you. Most of them are white and privileged. They may have been honest when they got there, and a few maybe still are, but alas, the majority of them will fall under the pressure of Lobbyists, and Dark Money. More on that later.

      What’s wrong with this Country? Could it be Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, or all the other Ivy League schools that seem to attract so many future politicians, well, maybe? I’m certainly not too impressed with the shape our country is in after decades of ivy growing through it. 36%of our Presidents have been Leaguers. It’s time to cut down some of the Ivy. Time to let some regular people rise to the top.

      I’m going to try hard to keep this book as short as I can. One of my favorite writers is Timothy Snyder, an extraordinary writer who wrote this little book that I read a year ago and reread recently. It’s titled, On Tyranny. I strongly recommend a read here. You will not regret it. This guy reads and writes in about a half dozen languages. Who does that? I was amazed to read in one of the chapters where he talks about how most Americans do very little reading these days. I couldn’t agree more. I, myself, of am guilty of this. In my younger days, I was all about Michener, James Clavell, any book north of five hundred pages. These days, three hundred or less. My boy Timothy thinks the same. His book, which I just mentioned, is 126 pages and small. You could place it in your pocket. So, expect to get through my little book here in a quick read as well. There is one big difference between Tim and me, however, and that would be style. As in writing style. Timothy is straightforward, no-nonsense kind of writer. Me, on the other hand, I’m a little helter-skelter, and I like to have a little fun getting my point across. I hope that helps to keep my readers reading right through this book… ; )

      I am a natural skeptic, as well as sarcastic with a dash of snarky. So please forgive me for that. I can’t help it. Also, I am most likely somewhere on the spectrum. I seem to be a little more observant than most people, and I sometimes have an instantaneous ability to memorize some obscure fact. For instance, when I first heard the term CRISPR, I looked it up. It stands for regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. When I woke up the following day, I rattled it off out loud to myself. I seem to have weird quirks like that. Maybe I get that from my Neanderthal roots. They were intelligent, artistic, loving folks and great hunters. They even had bigger brains than the Crow-Magnons. Look it up. You will be surprised. So, I guess I can call myself a Caveman.

      Aside from the Caveman stuff, this is how I have evolved to be the writer of this opinion piece: In my adolescent days, I was like an amoeba, happy enough to just go with the tide, float around with hardly a care in the world. Then I became a sheep. I believed the crap drummed into my head by

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