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By Gunnery Sergeant John McClain, USMC, Retired
We’ve now had three debates, two by the presidential contenders, and one by the vice presidential contenders, and we should have a fairly good understanding of where each is coming from, and how each considers handling the issues at hand before us.
Most of those touting these elections are making their talking points on the issues immediately at hand, and while they are of extreme importance, it is no less important to take note of how they came to be problems, issues needing resolution, and whether they became problems because of past political action, wrongly taken, or if they are natural to progression in a culture.
We have the most massive “debtor society” ever to exist in history, and we have it solely because the original form of our Nation, our principles and precepts provided for unprecedented growth, productivity, and innovation, moving our Nation forward at a pace no other Nation in history has ever experienced. At the same time, we have lived in much the same way as previous generations, as if all of this growth has come without any commensurate growth in responsibility.
Our growth has brought two diametrically competing ideologies into direct confrontation, the idea of self-government and sovereign citizenship, and the idea of socialism, and society superceding rights and liberties of the individual. The personalities and circumstances provide they must play out the confrontation in this election, as there is no room left for both; they exist in conflict with each other.
The founded Nation depends on individual initiative, personal responsibility; assumption by the citizen of the Sovereign Duties which must be fulfilled in every State or Nation if it is not to fall. The limits placed on the federal government keeping local issues entirely in the hands of The States, and The People, respectively, and not subject national debate.
We have the remnants of the “founded Nation” and the substantial portion of our population which remains in the same or similar circumstances as in the past. The citizens making up this portion, remain of the established mind-set.
On the other side are those who stand on the notion our establishment was less than perfect, and progressive ideas must be used to modify and alter our Nation to provide the egalitarian opportunity we see as rightfully that of all citizens. There can be no doubt our beginning was less than perfect, yet there should be equally no doubt, the necessary alterations were limited and precise, issues of equal application of the law, and consequences of failure to do so.
We know there had to have been active progress from the initial establishment to eliminate inequity, and from this, “progressivism” had its rightful place. At the same time, we know that most of the principles and precepts we established upon, were time tested, true, and absolutely necessary for egalitarian life. That our Western, Judeo-Christian culture is based on a “natural order” foundation arrived at by the Greeks, where logic and reason found principles, and these social principles are in the main, exactly the same as those found through religious doctrine derived from Judeo-Christian precept, means we have the best set of tools possible to establish a truly egalitarian society.
Progressive change to bring principle to bear equally, and provide an equal opportunity for all has continued from the start, and while one can always find inequality on outcome, it must be realized at some point, we have made equal opportunity as close as is humanly possible, and at such a point, we must stop, because man is not constantly changing, but is relatively stable, and can be seen as such by our history.
This Nation has the opportunity to “get it right” as no other ever has before, because we have a greater access to the full knowledge of the history of the world, more than at any time in the past; all the failures, and causes, and we also have great cause to stop our current attitude towards change, looking at the world before us, and knowing at the very least, some of what we are confronted with is in direct result of bad planning, poor decisions in the past, and the utter failure to adhere to our principles.
Our world is at a crisis point, one with a common source, an utter failure of principle allowing the whole world’s economy be operated on a “relative base” with no attempt to established any fixed value for the exchange of commodities. This idea is based on the fact that by logic, it will work as well as any, if every participant is absolutely honest and no participant seeks advantage.
That world does not exist, and our current stance, teetering on the edge serves as proof beyond all doubt, and some Nation is going to choose to take the conservative position, and re-establish on a firm foundation. The Nation whose people choose this first, will be the first benefactors of security in economics, and will lead while economies are in flux. We will determine the cost of our fecklessness by how responsibly we act, and how much vigor we put in setting our affairs in order. We can lead, or as ‘chief debtor’, we can be driven. We have to choose if we would lead.********** Get the facts. Watch the latest video clips about the latest issues on www.Gulf1.com If you no longer wish to receive these columns from Gunny McClain, please use: http://www.gulf1.com/remove/remove_gunny.html
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