The Collective Obligation

The vast majority of Americans are true red white and blue patriots, good people, American apple pie people, who look at the Gadsden Flag as a piece of pure patriotic Americana which they hold sacred.   But in recent years, there has been a shift and unless you are in the US Navy and you have the right to display the Gadsden Flag within your service to your country,  you might want to re-think the display of this flag on your property or in your wardrobe.  It is sad to say:  that to brandish the Gadsden Flag for political or patriotic purposes, especially in your neighborhoods or cities across the U.S,  you will now be labeled a far-right-militia-minded sympathizer and probably take a heap of hateful rhetoric from individuals around you. If not, you perhaps are living in an area of like minded people and this is the alarming message which prompted me to write this piece. Unfortunately, the first amendment has afforded the right to many Americans who have a...

If you must name the one definitive entity which caused the January 6th insurrection: it would be the 'political party system' within the United States Government.   The very same crippling methodologies that have rendered our modern political system so frustratingly compromised, are the very same political failures our founding fathers escaped while immigrating from Great Britain and Europe two hundred years ago.   Sadly to say, it wasn't long before the same folly of governance found its' way into the American political apparatus.   These founding fathers, who were ordained the opportunity to begin anew,  foolishly instilled the same stagnating mechanism of UK/Euro political doctrine within the U.S. Government which has since caused a myriad of national conflicts, tragedies and deadlocks that has left the world watching and waiting for the 'great democratic experiment' to collapse.     Of all the factors one would equate to the January...