George Washington was one of the Founders of this great country, considered by most historians to be our greatest general, for without the heroics and masterful leadership of Washington during our revolutionary war, with his brilliant retreats and attacks, utilizing all of his wiles and resolve in order to frustrate the British opposition, while also counterpunching and making daring raids when necessary, before finally trapping the British at Yorktown, which brought forth the reality of the independence of America as a nation, there would not be an America.
So too, George Washington was twice elected President, unanimously, though even then at the infancy of this republican country, there was a strong division between the federalists and the anti-federalists. In addition, the first signature on our law of the land, the Constitution, was from George Washington, the President of that Constitutional convention. Though, Washington, did not sign our Declaration of Independence, he could not do so because he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, busily defending New York from the British, and to the eternal credit of the character of George Washington, he did not and would not run for a third term, and voluntarily walked away from the temporal power willingly placed by the people into his capable hands.
George Washington's farewell message, printed in September of 1796, addressed many issues, of which one of tremendous pertinence for today's generation, urges that we must: "….avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty", and which despite Washington's prescient warning, is exactly what has transpired and exists in America today.
The fact that such a warning comes from he who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, as well as being our first President of the United States, reflects for a certainty, that Washington knew personally, how when one is both President of the land and a man that has commanded its military forces at the highest possible level, that such a man with such control, can effectively negate the people's liberty for with both the military might in one hand as well as the executive power of our civil government in the other, he is in effect, a king.
That said, those respective powers are not equivalent, for even when the executive is not from the highest echelon of the military, we find that the military establishment, itself, is still so powerful, still so ubiquitous, still so pervasive, and still so entangled in foreign adventures and misadventures, that such an executive, that such legislative power, and that such republican power, is effectively emasculated by the sheer size and strength of such a military establishment, which has, for all intents and purposes, co-opted wide swaths of the power within all branches of the government, so that those that are inimical to such a military establishment, are not afforded the opportunity to be part of those branches, which is why, that this present-day military establishment, has a budget for 2018 as reported by usgovernmentspending.com which taking into account our military spending, veterans affairs, and foreign policy aid is of a staggering total of $886.80 billion dollars, at a time, when America has no congressional declared war with any other nation, and is under no clear and present threat by any other country, or any other organization, foreign or domestic, in any meaningful sense.
This effectively means, that republican liberty no longer exists in this great nation, and hasn't existed for quite a number of years, that, instead, we are led by a shadow government that does not answer to the people, but does what benefits the military establishment, which enriches those that have sold their souls to that establishment, actively aiding and abetting such a military establishment to such an extent, that the good welfare and freedom of this country for all, has been trumped by that unelected military establishment.