Long time recording and performing songwriter and musician. Writer in Residence at Fort Juniper Amherst MA (Robert Francis Trust). BA from Harvard. Graduate studies in the history of religion at Hartford Seminary Foundation. Author of Convergence:Encounters with an Impossible Being, presently working on a collection of poems and several recording projects. I am appalled by the decline of the United States and the outright betrayal of the nation by many of our most prominent politicians. My Family's roots stretch far back in American history and several ancestors were prominent founders of the republic. This in no way entitles me to special status but it perhaps has made me particularly sensitive to the rampant corruption of our society. The founders were not perfect and cannot be judged fairly by the politically correct standards of today, but they established principles by which a just society could evolve. Today's political elites with their acceptance of endless warfare and privatized control of the money supply have quietly reversed the best achievements of the American Revolution and are quite literally guilty of subverting the Constitution and delegitimizing our government. I suppose my views may seem an odd mix of conservative and progressive ideas. So be it. The forces endangering our liberty and prosperity were foreseen by the founders and they tried to keep them at bay. What they could not foresee was the extent to which those forces would endanger civilization and life itself. Our battle now is not just for freedom, it is a battle for survival.