Three Ways to Fix America

There are multiple reasons why I would never be elected President, now or ever. Chiefly amongst them is my platform: Three Ways to Fix America.

To understand the power of something, you must understand its root or origin. Democracy works when an informed and passionate electorate elects public officials who are not afraid to make unpopular decisions. At the heart of it all, our "democracy" is really a trustee-ship, where we are trying to put responsible people into office who will make the right decisions, not the decisions that will get them re-elected.

Anybody with a political pulse will acknowledge that "all is not well" with the American experiment. Our electorate -- outnumbered by those who vote for the last American Idol -- is not passionate, and (on the whole) is hardly informed. Our politicians, far from being responsible trustees with a vision, instead are career-minded moneygrubbers willing to make any personal compromise if only to ensure their re-election.

Solutions? Here are mine.

1.) A one-term limit for Senators and Congressmen, coupled with severe campaign-finance limitations at the local level.
Why? Career politicians hurt. Just look at the various missteps of Ted Kennedy, as well as the Bush and Clinton clans. Surely our corrupt nature will lead to other forms of political longevity, but this will be curtailed by solutions #2 and #3.

2.) Books for America: A national call to literacy, with a reorganization of the education system to focus more on literature, and less on test scores.
Why? Because it is no coincidence that America's political decline has happened concurrently with her massive decline in literacy. One could write a book on the subject of how lack of information has led to the rise of kitch-culture, idiotic mass entertainment, and complete political ignorance. Good books, read habitually, lead to deeper thinking. They show us how to think better, and how to structure our thought lives (let alone HAVE them.) They are the ONLY way in which to acquire truly deep ideas, explore informed creativity, and build an imagination capable of surviving adolescense. They teach us ideals, teach us to look beyond the bottom line, and teach us to question in a way more informed than the average adult American's juvenile rebelliousness. When books die, America will follow in short order.

3.) Go back to God, America.
Why? The very idea of freedom is moot without God, as every major atheist regime of the 20th century has shown. Lose God in the political equation, and you lose the moral anchor which allows for a free society to make responsible and moral decisions. Lose God, and the masses begin to vote with their crotches instead of their conscience. Lose God, and our "rights" soon cease to have the "responsibilites" they require. America surives now, but will only thrive again when God is once again at the center of the American democratic experiment. Secular humanism is a bankrupt ideology, as proven by the mass killing fields of the 20th century, let alone the slow but sure collapse of modern Europe. Our strength to defend ourselves when attacked, our ability to make tough and unpopular political decisions, and our concern for the common man, all stem from God. Without God, these things will surely be washed away by the first big flood. Without God, we no longer have the foundation from which to confidently stand as the leaders of the free world.

I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I see no other way in which we can surely make America great again. Eliminate career politicians. Teach thinking, ideas and imagination. Regain your faith. The last two suggestions can be brought about on a personal level, after which they should be encouraged and even expected of those closest to you. If you think these are only my "opinions," then I suggest reexamining America's periods of strength. A strong America has always been a stable, moraled, God-centered, and tradition-minded America. A liberal America has always been weaker. End of story.