Give Us Back Our Country
An American’s Call For Political Reform
A Political Dark Age
I remember learning about the Dark Ages when I was a young child. At that time, I believed this period, marked by lawlessness, a lack of valid education, horrid living conditions, and superstitious beliefs, was an unavoidable step away from ignorance towards progress. Tragically, however, this period was a painful and unnecessary step backward from a long history of knowledge that was lost during this time of turmoil. It was a misstep that stifled human progress, in the West, for a thousand years.
Our country, too, was once moving down a logical path towards the things Americans value most like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all its citizens. In recent years, however, logic, reason, and common sense, those tools that have provided the advances we embrace, have taken a back seat to a new, uninformed, and emotionally charged group of political followers.
Democracy’s Achilles Heel
The strength of a democracy is that it is a government of the people, by the people. While a democratic society can manage and protect its citizen’s rights, one has to ask what happens when a specific group grows large enough to hijack a country’s democracy, seizing control of its national…
