She Asked

The woman is said to have asked Ben Franklin in 1787 when the Constitutional Convention concluded, what have you given us?

“A Republic” said Franklin, “if you can keep it.”

We couldn’t.

We did not.

It is done.

It is over.

Watch.

Learn.

America will never have it back.

We gave it back, Ben.

We gave it back.

237 years.

Given back.

Given away.

Squandered.

Never to be again.