America's Survival Guide: How to Stop America's Impending Suicide by Reclaiming Our First Principles and History

America is slowly committing suicide.

Contrary to popular wisdom, the most serious threat to America does not spring from overseas adversaries. Because the threat is from within, it is much more subtle and ignored. Our self-evident truths have become neither. Our history and First Principles have been cast aside and denigrated by the public, educators, mainstream media, legal profession, and politicians. This state of affairs imperils our very survival; and these are self-inflicted wounds – the very definition of suicide. Let there be no mistake – we may be fighting a hot war against militant Islamic terrorists today, but there is also a cold war raging, right here and right now for the hearts and minds of our citizens – and we are losing. The terrorists have reminded us that some things are worth dying for. The rule of law, equality, a republican form of government, unalienable rights, and limited government are such things. The terrorists, and all enemies of freedom, will win if we simply forget, or reject, what we are and the principles for which we stand. Political amnesia will be our death knell.
America’s Survival Guide, How to Stop America’s Impending Suicide by Reclaiming Our First Principles is a “one stop, full-service” primer to raise the alarm about the impending suicide of America and to help stop it. Part I documents the challenge we face by surveying the overwhelming evidence of our ignorance and disdain of American history and First Principles. This crisis faces our K-12 system, higher education, the general public, media, and political class. Drawing heavily on the Founding Fathers, including Paine, Dickinson, John and Sam Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Wilson, Madison, Jay, and Hamilton (as well as Locke, Hobbes, and Montesquieu), Part II clearly and concisely reviews America’s First Principles, and how the First Principles were the underlying cause of the American Revolution and became the foundation for our Federal Constitution. The work also reviews how those First Principles formed the basis of the struggle for racial and gender equality, and probes deeply into Lincoln, Stanton, Anthony, King, and others. Part III offers specific recommendations to combat the threat, including education, legal, media, holiday, nonprofit, and political reform. These innovative approaches include adopting an American Freedom Curriculum, reforming teacher preparation institutions, revising the bar exam, reorientating the media, and changing the political discourse. Each Part has its own independent value, and in some sense, stands completely alone. Together, they provide what we need to stop us from drinking our collective hemlock.

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