The Second Coming of John F. Kennedy

Kennedy had the courage of his convictions and died for them. Every president since pales in comparison. Kennedy's wisdom and statesmanship rings even truer today.

Kennedy and so many others left us a great legacy of thought and wisdom that are building blocks for the future. On the anniversary of his death the greatest tribute we can pay him is to revisit his legacy.

“For, in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, 'holds office'; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.”
― John F. Kennedy

If I composed a list of great Americans, two that have inspired me the most, John F. Kennedy and Mark Twain would be at the top of the list. I would be hard pressed to choose one over the other. Twain the writer, and Kennedy the politician both had great insights into their country and the human spirit from very different perspectives. Both made great contributions.

Where they overlap is on the issue of imperialism, both had the courage to speak strongly against it, as they realized the dire threat it posed to their country. Twain opposed imperialism in its infancy, Kennedy opposed it when it was a threat to America and now it is a threat to the world’s very existence.

The same dark forces that opposed Kennedy and saw to his assassination are today totally out of control and an existential threat to the world. It was no coincidence Allan Wallace Dulles, first head of the CIA, fired by Kennedy, was implicated in his assassination. Dulles and his brother John Foster, as Secretary of State under Eisenhower, were two of the most sinister characters in American history, serving in high office simultaneously. They laid the corner stone of the blood thirsty interventionist American foreign policy we have seen for the past half century.

Kennedy’s courage was unbounded as he knew who his enemies were and how determined they were to prevail. Only days before his assassination in Dallas Texas, there had been an attempt on his life in Chicago.

Kennedy’s assassination has tainted every presidency since. Any reform minded president arriving in office knows the CIA is monitoring their every move. Now presidential candidates are studiously vetted to insure they will maintain the status quo, any who don’t are vilified, and pushed back into the bleachers. Donald Trump is an astounding anomaly as he slipped the noose of backroom vetting and became the loose-cannon-president thanks to Hillary Clinton’s tarnished resume.

Kennedy was a politician but he was also a statesman. Statesmen are few and far between these day as Western politicians are captive to the vested interests they serve.

Kennedy’s death was not a singular assassination. It was part of a larger insurgency to convert America to a warfare state pursing global dominance. There were other assassinations, foreign and domestic to clear away the peacnicks, his brother Bobby and Martin Luther King were others. The rise of the Military Industrial Congressional Complex, (MICC) and the MacCarthy Hearings further signaled the US was moving to the right and towards being a militarist warfare state. The post war years laid the ground work for what America has become today.

His idealism takes the measure of how far we have fallen today where both nation states and democracy have been critically degraded, and where the agents of anarchy and chaos prevail. It is interesting to speculate what the world would be like now had he served two full terms.

Abandoning the great legacy

Over the past hundred years the West has become a civilization of abandonment where we have seen our great humanist legacy stolen from us. The great thinkers and visionaries have been cut down and slandered out of existence to where pure barbarism prevails. Kennedy was among this multitude whose wisdom and inspiration was stolen from us. The false prophets have come to prevail and they are without scruples as agents of anarchy of chaos.

Our societies are supposed to be collectives where everybody lives in peace, freedom, and values and rights shared by all. We have come to live in dictatorships where we are told what to think and do, and rights and values suppressed. We are spoon fed the official narrative based on lies and hypocrisy.

What was stolen must be taken back as it is rightfully ours, and provides the benchmarks we must build on. The great legacy is also the guidance and inspiration we need to move forward. Suppression must be followed by inspiration.

Following are samplings from Kennedy’s speeches. They deserve to be read and contemplated. Unlike the sound bites, mindless sloganeering and endless cliches of today’s politics this is rich thought provoking content, ideas that demand our careful consideration:

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• "For courage — not complacency — is our need today. Leadership — not salesmanship. And the only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously." 

• "Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man."

• "...civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

• "...what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were."

• "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining..."

• "We sometimes chafe at the burden of our obligations, the complexity of our decisions, the agony of our choices. But there is no comfort or security for us in evasion, no solution in abdication, no relief in irresponsibility."

• "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

• "For of those to whom much is given, much is required."

• "And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us — recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state — our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions:

  First, were we truly men of courage — with the courage to stand up to one’s enemies — and the courage to stand up, when necessary, to one’s associates — the courage to resist public pressure, as well as private greed?

  Secondly, were we truly men of judgment — with perceptive judgment of the future as well as the past — of our mistakes as well as the mistakes of others — with enough wisdom to know what we did not know and enough candor to admit it?

  Third, were we truly men of integrity — men who never ran out on either the principles in which we believed or the men who believed in us — men whom neither financial gain nor political ambition could ever divert from the fulfillment of our sacred trust?

  Finally, were we truly men of dedication — with an honor mortgaged to no single individual or group, and comprised of no private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the public good and the national interest?"

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Kennedy followed in the steps of Franklin Delano Roosevelt whose post war dream was to establish enduring world peace, after a world war that killed 125 million people, and after two world wars in quick succession. Where his premature death intervened it was left to Kennedy and others to pursue this dream.

In the post war era there was good reason for optimism as peace had returned and the American Dream was coming true as affluence and prosperity became the norms.

But even then storm clouds were gathering. In the midst of a burgeoning new era a president was assassinated and the 196O’s became the decade of assassinations as many others were also targeted.

It was only with time and the hindsight of history the significance of these assassinations and related events would have real and devastating clarity.

Kennedy stated that things don’t just happen, they are made to happen and this is ever so true when it came to his death. It was an essential step in establishing the American warfare state and the consolidation of the empire. No talk of peace could be allowed when the traitors were setting up their warfare state and incorporating the MICC(Military Industrial Congressional Complex) which Eisenhower warned about, and has now become the parasitic de facto government.

Kennedy also suggested the problems of mankind are of our own creation; and therefore must be resolved by our own efforts. The dilemma we face is there is no accountability and a pathological resistance by elites to be held responsible and accountable. They have systematically destroyed democracy and too many other instruments of accountability, weaponized institutions, eg; the law and media, to serve their tyranny of forever wars and endless greed.

The Western world is suffering from endless analysis, endless procrastination, prevarication, a collapse of morality and democracy. The road back is to take back the legacy stolen from us.

Kennedy and so many others left us a great legacy of thought and wisdom that are essential building blocks for the future. On the anniversary of his death the greatest tribute we can pay him is to revisit his legacy and act on it.

Legacies are always there, as a second coming, a second chance for our consideration. Without them we are orphaned and abandoned in dark times.

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