United We Stand, Divided We Fall

The counter is “divide and rule”. Which way is it to be in America?

Our ancestors went through a victorious revolution, tried making a country under the Articles of Confederation, and ended up assembling a Constitutional Congress in Philadelphia that created a Constitution that governs us to this day. All public oaths to this day are to support and defend the Constitution, not any political party or individual. That there was much friction at the Constitutional Congress is a given, but somehow the delegates thought, debated, argued, and compromised somehow enough to create a well thought of Constitution rather than some least common denominator. The comparisons to today’s Senate debating and voting on a comprehensive immigration bill that most Senators don’t have time to read, and it is being drafted by staffers vice principles even as the Senators hold news conferences, is a sad state of affairs.

America needs leaders who will lead, as in represent our National Interests as their first priority. United we stand, divided we fall. And the sad state of affairs today is a deeply divided group of Americans and their politicians that are not doing what earlier Americans at the Constitutional Congress did. The obvious group of such future leaders are those who visit RCP and other such sites. The political equivalent of sports scouts for drafts will probably find most candidates from this group of Americans, but there is always competition in the best American way.

“You know” who runs America today? It seems like the politicians and their parties, and the media do. After all, why are there no questions even asked in the debates about future Social Security and Medicare financing? “You know” the citizens really do own our country, and “uniting” vice “dividing” is the best path to our future.


Promoting debate, tolerating dissension, encouraging the vote, and thinking “uniting” vice “division” is the way to go to reuniting a future America in the best Philadelphia way. A whole new group of American leaders and thinkers exist, just get out of their way. And they are probably not Democrats or Republicans, just Americans.