Volume 7, Issue 25
The national press is confused in what they believe about America. And, they are confused about what is important in advancing the national dialogue on our national purpose. They are confused in their confusion.
Unless Americans individually take on the obligation of establishing and communicating transcendent principles to their children, our children are left to their own means to grapple with what is true without the tools of the foundational elements of truth as guideposts. Relegating children to the unfiltered, undisciplined marketplace of ideas without tutoring or direction is no different than the fatherless gangs now raising themselves as peers in the inner cities of certain metropolises in the United States. You would no more send your six-year-old child to school and say to them, go do what you want, go to school or not, come back home when you feel like it, if you get hungry or you run out of money, give me a call. Yet that is exactly what we’re doing to our children when we only deal with the President’s decision-making process rather than addressing the purpose of the decision in the first place. We fail to explain how the general principle of truth is impacted.
I held the Nuttle Report one day for the purpose of reviewing survey research published by NBC News last night and this morning on the issues most important to Democratic primary voters prefacing the Presidential debate of tonight. The results are surprising.
In extensive in-person interviews from Seattle to Miami, the number one issue on Democratic primary voters’ minds is climate change. We can all agree that protecting the climate is important. But for it to be the number one issue among Democratic voters indicates they are less concerned about the present circumstances affecting them than they are about future fears.
The number two issue is a woman’s right to an abortion. The reporters went so far as to quote a mother of two young teenage daughters. Her concern was that her daughters would not have the right to an abortion if they experienced an unintended pregnancy. Really?! A good education, equal pay, freedom to chose a profession of their choice, or a healthy family were not priorities over the right to an abortion? The point is not that the abortion debate is not meritable. The point is that it is the fear of a future contingency. What about things that impact their life right now?
The third issue of priority is health care. Again, the emphasis was on government care that they now receive. They want it standardized as national health care. They are in essence seeking the maintenance of the status quo.
The fourth issue of priority is the only concern raised about the present: civility in government. Respondents emphasized that they feel anxiety in their lack of security in how government is executed in an environment of extreme acrimony. This may very well be where the national press finds their motivation to analyze President Trump’s decision-making process. By this, the absence of any comparison of outcomes in reference to a proper national, world, and geopolitical strategy is not relevant.
Absent from the top tier of concerns were issues of immediate threat: trade with China, war in the Middle East, and the economy.
How immigration is not a priority issue defies logic. Just today, the tragic discovery of the bodies of a father and two-year-old child drowned in the Rio Grande River attempting to illegally enter the United States, begs for humanitarian action.
It is critical for all Americans, in determining support for the next President, that their personal decision-making process is based on a strategic policy presented for the goal of realizing an objective of national purpose rather than accepting a candidate who languishes in the weeds of personality and process. Everyone should ask themselves this question. What do you want America to be for the next generation?
When Millennials are asked if socialism is an appropriate form of government for America, over 50% of them say yes. Some of their support is based on the simplistic view that socialism will provide free college tuition. When they are informed that there are consequences to socialism that would impair their free choices in other areas of their lives, 90% are then opposed.
It is easy to blame Millennials for their naivety. And it is common conservative rhetoric to blame the national news media for their bias. Perhaps we should reexamine ourselves and our priority of commitments to our children. Are we giving them what they need to come to the proper conclusions for their own best interest?
Following World War II, America experienced unprecedented prosperity. As our standard of living has risen, we have neglected to nurture the moral culture that The Greatest Generation hoped would exist in perpetuity. It is not that America historically preached morality. And constitutional rights have not always been equally applied regardless of race, creed, color or sex. Yet, there was a time in America when there was an expectation of people knowing right and wrong, doctrines we absorbed by osmosis as children, through the reflective attitudes of society. We agreed that, regardless of race or culture, family was important, an education was critical, respect for the authority of elders was unconditional, church was a necessary component of an upbringing, and striving to give back more than one took was expected. Simple creed? Maybe. Irrelevant and old school? No. Why? Because these rules of character have been transcendent through all successful civilizations throughout the ages.
The Presidential campaign debate formally begins tonight. The real issues can be distilled down to these basic components. Do you want more or less government? And, are you satisfied with the status quo? And, if the status quo is not maintained, are you fearful only of lost government services and control in a distant future?
Much has been said about too much government taking too much of what you have. Socialism will control what you have. Communism will take what you have for its own purposes.
The real question is, do you believe in freedom or do you believe in government to provide for your future?
Each of us must decide for ourselves the demarcation of the Reigning Principles of life. Then these axioms are based on our hopes for our children which mirror the values of our ancestral mothers and fathers.
We must each take agency of our transcendent principles in the generational mandate of communication. There’s nothing wrong with watching the Bachelorette or Dancing with the Stars, as long as you balance that with a minimal obligation to be informed on current issues and decide for yourself and your family how policy should be applied to augment the Reigning Principles of life.
The innocent children in our spheres of influence deserve evidence and explanation of our values.
Otherwise, all principle is lost in the confusion of confusion
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?