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.

Since my service in Korea, I have observed the moral fiber of our country’s citizens decay, as well as their tendency to become insular in their thinking – less willing to fight for causes greater than themselves if their personal life or treasure is in jeopardy.

Our politicians have not fared any better, for their political parties have hijacked our government. As a result, today’s politicians have shown their allegiance to their political parties rather than the Constitution they have sworn to serve and protect.

In President Washington’s farewell address, he spoke at length about the “baneful” or deadly effects of political parties, feeling that they could be extremely harmful to our political system. He predicted that they could ultimately destroy our freedoms. He forewarned our country to beware of many other things that have since come to pass, here, in the 21st century.

By the time I finished writing my book What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?, I felt uncomfortable about what our country had become when compared to how I viewed it growing up. The difference was stark and severe; what I see now is contrary to what I believe our country should be about.

The main reason I wrote this book was to do my part to prevent the absolute destruction of what our Founding Fathers and their fellow colonists were willing to die to protect. They sacrificed everything to develop a country that stood fast to the principles and ideals as stipulated in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

This book is not filled with political jargon and devoid of substance. Rather, it represents a bipartisan formula for fixing our political system of government, where political compromise can ultimately be achieved. This is accomplished by examining the events leading up to the Revolutionary War. In so doing, the reader will understand why the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were written, and why the superb documents continue to stand the test of time.

If we don’t fix our system of government to more accurately reflect the views of all Americans, our republic as we know it today will be but a distant dream. Our democratic way of life will disappear because we failed to make the necessary changes to our Constitution to more accurately mirror our great Nation’s political climate, here, in the 21^stcentury. For a true democracy to operate optimally, the politicians who represent the people must consider the views of ALL Americans, not just those that their political base embraces. And that’s what my book is about – how to make our republic more representative of its people. To make it a place where the classes and ethnic groups (including same sex oriented American citizens) that comprise our country’s citizenry have the potential to make each of their dreams become a reality. To make it a country where once again people can say, without hesitation, “I’m proud to be an American.”