MANIFEST DESTINY

© 2007 Frank Lynch 2008 Inc.

We must, we have an obligation, we have a duty  (remember "Duty, Honor, Country?"), to continue what America has done most successfully since 1776. America's most successful accomplishment has been, and if you and I work together, will always be, to serve as the example, the model for all the world to imitate.

Our revolution against a king served as the model for the French to revolt against their king, which in turn led to democratization of the Western world, and more slowly, of all the world.

When Abraham Lincoln changed colleges away from being religious seminaries to being colleges that taught something useful, the European countries quickly imitated us, and today all the world has colleges that teach useful things. That explosion of medicine, math, science and engineering first lifted up America, and later lifted up the entire world.

Because our politicians are so inadequate, our once admired systems have failed and are broken.

America's healthcare system is now 39th in the world. Our education system ranks between 19th and 29th depending on what is being measured. One-third of our children do not complete high school. The number of US citizens studying math, medicine, physical sciences and engineering has been declining for almost twenty years, at the time when science and technology are everything!

Our democracy is broken. Giants like Al Gore write books on "The Assault on Reason" describing how both parties are not able to conduct rational discussions of issues, and how the true issues are hidden from the American public. Most people would agree that our elected officials are not responsive to 'We the People.' Congress is paralyzed by partisan fighting which degenerates to name calling instead of analysis. All, repeat ALL of our existing politicians spend more time getting re-elected and raising election money and legal bribes than they devote to work and to analyzing the issues. So how can they plan for our future?

The world no longer either respects America, nor fears our wrath. They do fear our carelessness.

We, I and you, have a duty to restore and reinvent America to the greatness which the entire world loved and respected. To the America which all the world strived to imitate.

And that is America's true Manifest Destiny. To be the model which all the world strives to imitate. To set the standard which all the world strives to become.

America's Manifest Destiny is to be the peak of excellence in every area, whether it is free universal healthcare, schools that meet the needs of working mothers, free college, re-inventing democracy so that all the people participate in analyzing the issues which affect the future of our families and children, true national security, and jobs for a middle class that includes virtually everyone. A re-invented America in which all our people actually vote

So please join with me, so you and I may work together to re-invent and restructure America's obsolete systems. So that you and I, side by side with true equality, may lift up the life of every man, woman, family and child in America. When we, you and I working together in the great struggle, succeed in accomplishing that, may our beloved America forever serve as the model for the rest of the world to imitate.

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