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Saving America from itself

America is at a crossroad that could be called one of the darkest periods in its history both domestically and globally. Denial and sweeping our problems under the rug have ran their course and it is past the time for reality check followed by action to save it. There is an Ethiopian saying, "Those who hide their wounds will never find a cure." All concerned American and even global citizens should see in their mind's eye that the founders of this nation would be spinning in their graves if they could watch what has happened to the government of the people, by and for the people' they founded.

The undeniable fact is that America is on a downward or self-destructing course that can be explained in simple cause and effect principle. Only those who have caused this downfall want us to deny this and make the issue look too complicated to conceal the cause. They are afraid of change in the most dynamic country and want us to cling onto status quo and keep doing what they tell us-the way that benefits them the most.

The root cause of America's downfall is its gradual shift from government of the people to government of a few and the false expectation that the government of a few or almost one-man rule works in the infrastructure of the free society. Technically speaking, this is as ridiculous as using Chevy auto parts in Ford engine or installing Window's software on a Mac and expect them to work! In the Middle Eastern wisdom this is called planting thorn bush and expecting to harvest dates! Alas, the same ones who are destroying America are also destroying the Middle East, the graveyard of empires from whose failures and successes we have much to learn. Our so called modern' education has gradually deprived us of not only substance, but the wisdom that determines how well we have been able to relate our past to our present and plan for a better future.

One piece of wisdom that the public has been gradually conditioned to underestimate is "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." One should ask, wasn't the fear of concentration of power in the hands of a few or one-man rule the main reason why America's founders for deposed the biggest colonial power of their time? Another piece of wisdom the American public has underestimated is that the American Revolution was never meant to survive without constant vigilance of its public. Survival of unguarded government without the watchful eyes of its citizens is as absurd

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