What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?: How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way

by Lyke, h. John

• ISBN13: 9781475944150
• ISBN10: 1475944152
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-06
• Publisher: Author Solutions

Excerpts

....The question that needs to be answered in my treatise is, “At the end of this century, will the United States still be a world leader or will we continue to be an inferior caricature of what we once were or, even worse, will we have become another fallen empire? Put another way, will the dreams and promises of Americans for their country continue to become unattainable?” I wrote this book, with the belief that I could indeed provide the political formula necessary to answer that question in the affirmative, which I unquestionably believe I’ve done, and in so doing, assured that my children and grandchildren, as well as all the people who live in this country today, will be able to live their lives with dignity and respect - in a way not possible in the world of politics today. Since my service in Korea, over time, I have observed a decay of our country’s citizens’ moral fiber, and their tendency to become more insular in their thinking and less willing to fight for causes greater than themselves if their personal life or treasure is in jeopardy. I’ve also become acutely aware that millions of other Americans, although they remain silent and feel impotent and ill-equipped to initiate change of any sort, fervently believe as I do, that, over the years, our country’s integrity and moral values have declined precipitously. As do I, they also believe that if meaningful change isn’t done with alacrity, our government as we know it will change dramatically. And that transformation will be anything but what we as citizens of this country want and desire. For if a sense of fairness and social justice between and among social classes and ethnic groups isn’t accomplished, where such achievement is much more in keeping with what our Founding Fathers had envisioned, as reflected in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights, our government as we know it today will become extinct. The ‘governing body’ that will take its place will clearly not be to any law abiding American’s or Founding Father’s liking.… If you want to know what the “99 per centers” are demonstrating about, this book is for you! Using psychological principles, in a nonpartisan way, I explain, why, today, our Nation is so divided between party lines. I make specific suggestions what needs to be done to regain our moral and political leadership as a nation so that we can each once again say, “I’m proud to be an American.” The main reason I wrote this treatise is to prevent the absolute destruction of what our Founding Fathers and fellow colonists were willing to die for to protect – which were the principles and ideals as stipulated in the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and the Bill of Rights. My most recent book Political Straight Talk, is not filled with political jargon, devoid of substance, but rather, a formula for fixing our political system of government. I do that by examining the events leading up to the Revolutionary War and, in so doing, help the reader understand why the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights were written, and why those 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 21st century. 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 this latest book is about – how to make our republic more representative, where the classes and ethnic groups that comprise America, our country’s citizens, have the potential to make each of their dreams become a reality, where we once again can say, “I’m proud to be an American.”