Help boost the Abraham Lincoln National Union party to assist Illinois Lincolnesque breakaway candidates, evoking President Lincoln’s integrity and history to mount a voter enlightened alternative to Illinois Democrat political machinery.

“The reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have actual experience of it.”  Machiavelli, Niccolo 1469-1527  Italian political theorist whose book The Prince (1513) describes the achievements and maintenance of power by a determined ruler indifferent to moral considerations.