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In order for our government to meet the expectations of the citizenry it serves, our politicians need to follow the two freedoms under which our Constitution was written, called private and public virtue. They haven’t been doing that of late. As a result, over the years, our system of government has become broken, resulting in the needs of many Americans not being met.
Private virtue involves your personal integrity which urges you to follow your heart and your moral compass,
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During the time leading up to the American Revolution, there was no standing army in the Colonies. As such, they had to be ready to fight in a “minute’s” notice to defend themselves. That’s why they were called “minute men.” They were our only defense against invasion at the time.
After the war, when our Founding Fathers were drafting the Constitution, they included the right to bear arms (the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights) to ensure there would always be a means to protect and defend the newly established country.
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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 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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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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