If you consider yourself American — say, you are a citizen of the United States and are struggling with what it means to be a citizen of the United States of America —, I strongly recommend that you spend a few moments today reading the Declaration of Independence. For, the US Constitution — the basic law of our nation, one of several documents, including the Declaration of Independence, that people from all around the world come to see, but our own nation’s congressmen and -women, State and Commonwealth legislators, and federal and State, Commonwealth, county, and municipal justices regularly ignore — was created to preserve the spirit of the Declaration.
It is OUR responsibility — the responsibility of the PEOPLE of this land — to preserve this spirit. It is we who elevate our failed leaders, representatives, senators, justices, and other public officials to high office to make the decisions on our behalf. Thus, if the spirit of the Declaration is fagging, then it is because We, the People, have forgone our responsibility. Accordingly, it is only We, the People, who can ultimately renew the spirit and elect new leaders who commit — not in word, but in deed — to the preservation of the American state and that for which it stands.
Elections, however, are not enough.
For, the Spirit of America must live within each of us, just as the Holy Spirit lives in those who would call themselves Christians.
Each nation of the world has a spirit that consists of an attitude that is shared by every citizen of that nation. It is a worldly disposition that one holds towards one’s fellow citizens and the outside world. It is a disposition that is different in every nation, and one that is molded by a common history, geography, language, and way of thinking, doing, and being. I have lived for long periods of times in eight countries on three continents and have experienced the same, but differently in each land. It is real, and it serves a very important purpose.
Just as we encourage economic competition to thwart monopoly control and imposition, so must we encourage national competition to thwart the same. Those who seek one-world government know not what they do. Rather, that the nations of the world suffer from an occasional border war than suffer the imposition of a top-down, one-world order!
America was built from the bottom-up, and today it is being run from the top-down. It is this that we must change. We must renew the American spirit.
Our government was designed to fear the people, and the criminals among the people were made to fear our government. Today our government is run by criminals, and the criminals among the people no longer fear our government. Everything is upside-down, and we must turn it on its head!
Read our founding documents, for they are what once made America great and can Make America Great Again!
With this I wish everyone who is or aspires to be an American a Happy 4th of July!
In liberty,
Roddy A. Stegemann, First Hill, Seattle 98104
Author of Mount Cambitas - The Story of Real Money