In honor of election day, we decided to do our favorite presidents.
Mine was George Washington; leader, hero, rebel scum.
George has a lot of character for a such a stoic guy. He's chopped down cherry trees (allegedly) and helped forge our nation.
It was a toss up between him and Roosevelt (Bull Moose party!!) for me, but in the end, the election made me think of a George Washington quote:
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders & miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an Individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty."
These ring true to me during an election year as each passing cycle becomes more and more vitriolic.
here's Georgey w/o colors.
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