Progress is the leading indicator of a great nation because progress is a result of competition, science, medicine, rule of law, work ethic.
Rising rates of crime, addiction, suicide as well as the rise in cost of living, health care and the national debt coupled with declining birthrates, life expectancies, income, and educational and moral standards are the indicators of a formerly great nation.
These are some of the things I want to get back to.
• Competition unfettered by regulations, quotas, subsidies or tax policies favoring one group over the other. Competition where no one bank is determined to be too big to fail. If you fail, you fail. I want to see men compete against men and women compete against women in sports. Competition in ideas on our campuses and in our media. I want to get back to a time when every debate did not end with a phobic slur.
• Science that is used to the benefit mankind and not used as a cudgel to destroy businesses or industries with claims of existential threats based on false models that adhere to the most current hypothetical doomsday orthodoxy.
• Medicine that does no harm. The CDC and the FDA should be ruled by open debate of empirical knowledge of scientific facts, not by overpaid bureaucratic experts playing politics with our lives. Pharmaceuticals should provide medicines that cure illness and not mask symptoms and vaccines that work. Boys should be raised by their fathers and not by Adderall. Doctors should be able to take the time to dispense advice on well-being instead of being forced by insurers to reduce office time and to just write prescriptions.
• I want to get back to rule of law. If you get arrested committing a crime, you go to jail. If you take out a student loan, you pay it back If you enter the country illegally, you are expelled. The legislative process goes from the House to Senate to Oval Office and not from the Oval Office to a federal agency and then the Supreme Court. Having a government that can actually pass a budget. Voting laws that are generated by the state legislatures. Prosecutors that prosecute. District attorneys that find crime and indict people, not indict people, then find crimes. Governors and mayors who do not pick and choose which laws they will enforce. Get back to a time before Antifa flash mobs and BLM rioters dictated law enforcement policy, a time before our politicians told us all the cops are criminals and all the sinners, saints.
• Work ethic that rewards the individual. A day’s work for a day’s pay. Pay that is not taxed in a confiscatory manner. Pay that rewards skills, education, merit and hard work. Work that rewards the individual with a sense of self-worth. Work in exchange for government entitlements should not be considered oppressive.
Now let’s address your white male supremacy remarks.
• July 4, 1776, was not only the beginning of this nation, it was also the beginning of the end of slavery in America. On that date, nine of the colonies that signed the declaration had already outlawed slavery. At the signing of the Constitution in 1788, it contained the language that the slave trade was to be banned in no less than 20 years. In 1807, that law went into effect. The first expansion of this fledgling nation was into the Northwest Territories. Congress debated as to whether this land would be free or slave when it was annexed. The final vote was “free.” In April 1865, more than 600,000 Americans lay dead and one of the greatest Americans of all time, Abraham Lincoln, took a bullet to the head for ending slavery in these United States. He kept Thomas Jefferson’s promise and ended a systemic problem here in the United States, a problem that has existed since the time of the pharaohs the world over and still exists in the world today. Every American I know has a deep respect for Abraham Lincoln.
The promises made in the declaration were made to the citizens of the colonies. They were not made to the world. The people who signed it risked their lives, liberty and property. The Constitution that followed was the social compact with these citizens and a government by the people became a reality. Laws are passed at the will of the people. The laws need to be followed. That’s not happening on the border. (The original intent of the federal government was to secure the borders, collect the tariffs and settle disputes between the states.)
What I would like to get back to is “E Pluribus Unum” and get away from “DEI.”
• “D” is for diversity. Caesar taught us that you must divide to conquer. So how is it that diversity is now our greatest strength? At the start of World War II, Hitler described us as a “mongrel nation.” What he underestimated was our American culture that tied us together. We proudly called our nation “the melting pot.”
• “E” is for equity. Jefferson proposed that all men are created equal. Lincoln died on that hill. Jefferson did not engage in any discussions concerning equity. He didn’t promise that “all men will die equal” and that’s exactly what government mandated equity will lead to. Just ask any survivor of communism.
• “I” is for inclusion. Eight million illegal aliens in three years is enough inclusion for now.
“E Pluribus Unum” is our nation’s motto: “Out of many, one.”
Don’t bother calling me names that end in phobic. I’m from the “sticks and stones can break my bones” generation.
John McGuire
Sparta