From Doing to Being

[ClayBarham]

In the last 100 years, America has shifted from a land of “doers” to a land of “be-ers.” Americans have abandoned the principles of responsibility and governance from personal to political. Where each believed responsibility for his or her actions and thoughts were personal, we substituted political regulators. People are no longer to blame for their actions. Community now shoulders that burden. Americans lost the will to rule themselves. They passed it to political experts instead. That loss brought a loss of care and concern for individual morality, family and community, as well as liberty. We see it in today’s political campaigns, in the appeals for votes offered by various leading candidates. The major appeal today is, “Elect me and I’ll save you and supply all your needs.” One Party focuses on that pledge, while the other still tries to convince voters they prefer individual liberty, but are willing to sacrifice it when they see the need. In either case, Americans lose.