I make no apologies for asking you to look at my lykeablebooks4U.com, which you’re viewing right now. It’s there that I include and review some of the narrative segments that I wrote in my recently published psychologically based book entitled: What Would Our founding Father’s Say?;How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way.
I make this impassioned plea because I just finished listening to several of the Sunday morning political talk show hosts’ programs,
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Because of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting at Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama stated we must take steps to assure a tragedy such as that should never happen again. In order to assure that never happens, initially he stated we should not “politicize” the gun control debate. In a later presentation, when he addressed the Newtown School shooting families and responders who attended a vigil in Newtown, he asked his audience, “What choice do we have? Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage,
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I’m an 80-year-old man and have just written a psychologically based book entitled: What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?: How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way. One of the primary reasons I wrote the book was because for many years now, and with increasing frequency, our integrity as a nation has been severely abused. It has been battered by our politicians – our elected officials. Of late, they have shown their true, self-serving colors by aligning themselves to their political party,
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It’s obvious that I, like so many other Americans, feel like our system of government is broken. The reason it’s so dysfunctional is that Congress and the president are not representing the people, but rather the political party to which they are a member. This is all done at the expense of not serving the people through the Constitution that they swore to serve and protect.
As American citizens, who pay their taxes and obey the laws of the land,
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Another way of introducing my newly published psychologically based book, What Would the Founding Fathers Say?: How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way, is to briefly share with you my thinking on where we are as a country today and how we got there.
Prior to receiving my doctorate degree in clinical psychology, I served in Korea, during peace time, as detachment commander in the U.S. Medical Service Corps. Overseas service helped magnify my pride as an American and taught me to appreciate the uniqueness of the United States as a land of personal liberty based on laws written by and for its people.
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What I’ve learned from my own life experiences, as well as from writing the book What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?, is that we need others to make our lives complete.
When we are born and go through the various developmental stages that life represents, we obviously need the help of others to complete those various benchmarks successfully. The catalyst for achieving the level of development required of a given stage of life would be the adults’ love that made themselves available in helping us master each of those stages successfully.
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What political parties do is reinforce the stereotypical views that our society places on being a Republican or Democrat, and by inference, being a human being. If you’re not in one camp, by definition, you are in the other one. The ‘camp’ or the ‘class’ that you find yourself in defines who you are and what you value in life. A very popular parameter that is used to put people in one class or another is money.
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We have a republic form of government, where affairs of state are conducted publicly and the citizens conduct their affairs for their own benefit rather than for the benefit of a ruler. Historically, republics have not always been democratic like ours is. For example, the ancient Republic of Venice was ruled by aristocratic elite.
It was during President George Washington’s two terms as president when our fledgling nation was operating as our Founding Fathers had intended our government to run.
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President Washington recognized the deleterious effects of political parties, which he stated in his Farewell Address, warning that the creation of political parties encouraged the development of vengeful policies which would ultimately lead to tyranny and dictatorship. Despite such cautionary words, two of his closest advisors, Hamilton and Jefferson, not only contributed to the formation of political parties, but they also came to represent the divisions that shaped the early national political landscape which continues to influence Republican vs. Democratic political ideology,
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As a way of introducing my newly published, psychologically based book to you, entitled: What Would the Founding Fathers Say?: How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way, I’d like to share with you how I came to write this book. What was my motivation to do so.
I grew up during WW II. My father was too old to join the military, but, in his own way, he was very patriotic. He believed in supporting the war effort by buying war bonds and doing anything else to help defeat the Axis powers: Germany,
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