What America Could Be...

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You don’t need me to tell you what America’s problems are. Plenty of people can do that.

Instead, let me tell you about America’s future. What it can be.

I’m not making a prediction.

But there is a new golden age waiting for us if we do just five things.

One:

Reconnect with our Judeo-Christian roots.

In this vision of the future, a majority of Americans realize we have to return to the basics. A new appreciation of traditional Judeo-Christian values takes place. Call it a new awakening.

We became an exceptional nation because we were a largely self-governing nation — the first in human history. The US Constitution begins with the phrase “We the People…”

But self-government only works if we are a moral country. And to be that we need to appreciate the source of our values: the Bible.

Our second President John Adams understood this right from the beginning.

“Our Constitution,” he wrote, “was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Of course this doesn’t mean that you have to follow a specific religion, or any religion at all — that’s your Constitutional right — but it does mean that as a society we recognize Judeo-Christian values as our moral compass.

Pointed in the right direction, a new sense of civility returns. Politics remain as fractious as ever, but our debates are more about policy than personality; more constructive and less bitter.

Two:

We take control of our children’s education.

In this renewed America, Moms and Dads demand to be informed about exactly what their children are learning. They don’t take no for an answer. They get themselves elected to local school boards to make sure their wishes are enforced.