Full Circle

 Full Circle

In just 250 years these United States of America have come full circle. We’ve gone from George William Frederick to Donald John Trump. George William Frederick was aka King George III who ruled over Great Britain and Ireland and those new colonies we call America. King George III was also known as the Mad King who had recurrent and eventually permanent mental illness. Now America is under a new king, King Donald I. Our second king appears to also suffer from mental illness and will likely be known as America’s second Mad King.

When the new colonies declared their independence in July 1776, that document listed twenty-seven grievances against the British king. In that list it was charged that, “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.” It remains to be seen how King Donald I will fare with historians once he has been dethroned.

Unlike our current King Donald I, King George III was a chaste and religious man who never cheated on his wife. His early life found him to be of good moral character. His current counterpart is by all accounts a moral leper. King Donald’s claim that the only things controlling him are his morals means nothing stands in his way. Not even our country. We almost made it to our 250th birthday as a constitutional republic and a representative democracy. We are becoming a constitutional monarchy just as Great Britain was under King George III.