DEAR SOPHIA,

YOU LOOK SO ATTENTIVE AND STUDIOUS WITH A PEN IN YOUR HAND, READY TO TAKE NOTES AND READY TO FORM OPINIONS. I TOLD YOU I AM KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU (IN A GOOD WAY).

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! YOU ARE AT A STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSEMBLY AND I AM SURE IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE IN AN ELECTION CYCLE. EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE JUST LEARNING HOW THINGS ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK. YOU WILL COME TO THE LESSON VERY QUICKLY THAT THINGS DON’T WORK AS THEY ARE DESIGNED. MOST OF THE ISSUES IN THIS ELECTION ARE DISTRACTIONS.

I SAID TO YOU A FEW MONTHS AGO THAT WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF WAR. AS OF THIS POINT, WE ARE ALREADY IN A GLOBAL WAR. THESE THINGS DON’T HAPPEN WITH A SUDDEN DECLARATION OR A NEWSPAPER HEADLINE. GREAT POWERS DRIFT INTO THEM AND THEN SUDDENLY THEY FIND THEMSELVES IN A GLOBAL CONFLICT OR MORE APPROPRIATELY SAID, THE CITIZENS REALIZE THEIR GOVERNMENTS HAVE DRAGGED THEM INTO A GLOBAL CONFLICT AFTER THEY ARE ALREADY IN IT.

THIS IS WHY YOUR STUDENT GOVERNMENT LESSONS – YOU SHOULD REALLY DIG INTO THE HISTORY OF TROY, GREECE, ROME, BYZANTIUM AND ONCE YOU LEARN THOSE HISTORIES, YOU WILL SEE THAT NOTHING TODAY IS ANY DIFFERENT THAN 3,000 YEARS AGO.

I WILL SEE YOU SOON!

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LOVE,

DAD