America of yesterday verses today and ‘the common good’.

Now I keep going back to Republic verses Democracy because there are key differences. Well let me elaborate and if you have read my earlier articles you know what I am writing to. I have spoken to if this nation is to fall it will be from within and by our own hand. Do I think it is intentional, no, but yet history will be the real judge. I believe it is a misguided ideology that is works fine for the haves of the world but not the common people nor for the common good. In concept it would work if fairness, justice, equality, morality and love of neighbor were actually applied for the good of all. Rhetorically one can presume that will never happen in my opinion without divine intervention. It is also by nature of works that we have swung toward the worlds system of government verses our Republic. It is all there in the solutions these candidates offer. Yes, the Easter Bunny on the outside all packaged for sale and hollow on the in.

So what forms this belief or opinion of mine and others that we are on the wrong path? When a nation is divided as we are and we are right down the middle. Fragmented in culture, opinion, beliefs, opinions the only thing that could ever hold them together is a unity of common purpose and for the common good. It is etched in the fundamental words of our Union and the Constitution. We the People elect a government to represent We the People, not we the business or ideology. We elect representatives  to carry that ideal, goal, agenda forward for the common good of us all and nothing else. That is for the benefit of all citizens to the pursuit of life, liberty and  happiness, provide for OUR common defense not the worlds and secure those unalienable rights, God given for us all and our posterity. Do you sense that happening?

However, when government ceases to act for the common good in their works and deeds, they are by the very nature of those works no longer entitled to represents us. They have by those deeds placed the interests of foreign powers over that of Americans. Those actions have resulted in severe economic damage and harm to a substantial portion of Americans and effected "the common good of all Americans" and possibly our posterity.

Now many will profess those in Cuba long for our system of Free Trade and capitalism. Well what do these poor people have? They have what they have sown by their own ignorance and following blindly without knowing. It was the easter bunny and everything on the outside seemed great, promising and offered hope, sound familiar? Certainly they fostered it upon themselves and that is a key point. Have they forgotten why Fidel ever came to power? I believe the answer is yes. They are not of that generation who lived under Battista. Was it not the same there then, the haves and the have not which brought Fidel to power? Corruption and greed in any system creates the environment for exploitation and subsequently turmoil and strife. Is our system better? Well the answer is yes with a qualifier. When it works for the common good of all and eliminates greed.  In life the common good translates into TEAM. Be it business, church or any activity requiring the unity of people to be successful. Yes, the Common Good first, me second!

So we have brought this upon ourselves. We are reaping what we are sowing. So jeer, get mad, say what you will the facts and the truth that really stirs a nation to action and strikes at the core of who a people say they are. It is right before you to accept or deny. It is not about a black president or a woman it is all about America. As Abraham Lincoln stated "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing weather this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure". Yes a different time, a different place the same test.