Does it bother anybody else that it seems the immediate thought is that any of the best and most successful among US, wouldn’t serve the Country, just to serve the Country? There’s a deep underlying thing here we need to talk about. And it is mostly my generation’s fault. And in turn, our responsibility is to bend the Patriotism curve back to the service pointer. Are we so cynical, because we’re used to career political types, who became rich and influential by living and growing on the government machine, that we expect anybody who takes that kind of position is doing it to enrich themselves? Does this mean we’ve lost the concept, or the understanding of the concept, which makes US believe that a rich successful person wouldn’t take a cabinet position as an act of service? We have thousands of Americans serving in our military for pennies and we see them as heroes, and they truly are. So why do we not see a person who is successful BECAUSE in part, of the willingness of those thousands of military to serve is a real reason why they are successful, want to give as their Patriotic duty?
I ask this after watching the Kabuki Theater going on in the “news” media and the outrage on the left, that Mr. Trump is in the process of “giving the Country to the most evil among US”, those terrible millionaires and billionaires who have been successful in the private sector of the United States. Really? I mean, REALLY? I’m just not jaded enough to believe that there are no Patriots that are millionaires and billionaires. I refuse to believe that We The People have taken this Great Country to that bad of a place. This is the result of the propaganda we have been fed for the last 30+ years by the anti-American; America is the problem, folks on the left. Do you believe that every successful American businessman has no feeling for the need to serve, to give back? I don’t! I’ve been blessed in my life in the business world to meet some very successful people, the majority of who are also very Patriotic people. I know people serving in our State Government, who took leave from very successful business careers, to accept the call to serve, and not because of what it would do for them. They do it because they believe they have something to offer in service to their fellow Citizens. Why does this seem like such a foreign concept?
I believe this should be upsetting to EVERY US Citizen. How did we, as a nation, lose the understanding that just because someone is successful, they are also capable of giving selfless service to their fellow Citizens? Or have we? Do we now see that being successful and serving your community as mutually exclusive? Doesn’t this say something about how truly cynical our government has pushed US to become? Where has the “America is Great because America is Good” gone that De Tocqueville saw, when in the 1800s he said, “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Do any of US still believe that America is Great? Or maybe the better question, “How many now believe that America is no longer Great?” Wouldn’t those have to be our fellow Citizens who believe that a successful US Citizen wouldn’t accept a position in the government just to serve?
I can only hope that as we’re watching President-elect Trump ask more very successful people to serve our Country, that We The People will not immediately question their purpose. I still believe that America is Great because most Americans are good. I also believe that there are good and noble, and successful, men and women among US, who would choose to serve this Country, just to serve. I will see every person, particularly the very successful ones, that President-elect Trump appoints to a position in his Administration as one who is doing so just to serve, unless or until they give me a reason to see them otherwise. Why? Because I just don’t believe that the other is who and what we’ve become.
God Bless America! And America, Please Bless God Again!
