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George Washington’s Farewell Address

Words for Every Patriot of Liberty

Robert Thibadeau
LieCatcher
Published in
4 min readOct 13, 2019

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President George Washington read and published his Farewell Address in September 1796 AD with near perfect prescience about what has actually happened to US today.

His Farewell Address took him several years to compose. I originally did a summary of his full Farewell in his exact words with a couple of necessary word substitutions and updated with modern punctuation and formatting:

But maybe even that short but thorough version is too long and not direct enough.

So now I take that short version cut it down to the argument George Washington would have likely made to explain why no Patriot of Liberty should vote for Donald Trump or others who lie divisively. I do reorder some of his points in this direct accusation. I am certain he would have wanted this done for all Patriots of Liberty now and tomorrow.

Why George Washington wrote it:

Your welfare urges me to offer the result of much reflection which…

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Robert Thibadeau
LieCatcher

Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com