What divides a family divides a nation.

Through looking into the debates and division within four generations of my family, I saw a micro version of the macro problem that has now surfaced in America. I've come to believe the healing of a nation begins with the healing of the families within the nation.  

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The Recipe of Reconciliation

The ingredients are simple and just like the ingredients required to make a cake, if one is missing, an actual cake can not be made. Here are the four simple ingredients:

1. Own the behavior 

2. Be sincerely apologetic about the behavior

3. Make a commitment to change the behavior

4. Take time rebuild trust in the relationship

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Conquer the Divide!

Through a commitment to Return to Love, to reconcile relationships, and to speak and listen to each other in love and with mutual respect, and the goal of understanding, I believe we will conquer the divide among us. 

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Return to Love!

To say "Return to love." is to say "Return to God." God is love (John1:4) and I've found that without  first receiving His love, we are not able to love well. I hold mutual respect for those who differ from my beliefs. It is critical that we all engage in true mutual respect and love for one another regardless of our differences. In this, I'm not suggesting that we "lay our differences aside" and/or "go along to get along." I'm suggesting that we learn to speak and listen to one another in love. 
 

The Current "Civil War."

We are now in a type of "civil war" in America which is a direct attack on the socioeconomic status of the commoners of this county. It is psychological in nature, extremely confusing, and tormenting. I believe our only hope is to...

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The Rise of the Commoner's Voice
In any nation where the commoner's voice is not heard and heeded, you will find countless forms of poverty and countless forms of slavery.  As we bring love and mutual respect to each other, we will rise up as one and become a powerfully united voice that can and will slay the giants of greed in the land. 

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Create a Balanced Majority

Balanced majorities avoid policy reversals and thus save money and maintain credibility. They avoid policy changes that are random or excessive and thus reduce the game-of-chance and hysteria in politics. They show the rule of reason not of whim, thus inspire confidence in legitimate leadership. They do not let fringe reps steer policies, a common fact in one-sided majorities.

  

The dysfunction, due to unhealed wounds within American families, has over time produced an incredibly excessive, unreasonable, whimsical, and completely hysterical nation. If we had a “balanced majority” environment within our families (the micro), we would see a legitimately “balanced majority” surface in politics (the macro). In order to have a legitimately “balanced majority,” you must first achieve an altruistic blending of the best ideas from every side. 

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"Effective" Capitalism: (The True American Dream)

If enough people set out to do the things I've mentioned above, I believe we would find ourselves living in a country that would run on the principles of what I call "Effective Capitalism" (vs. corrupt capitalism) which would sound something like this: You do you and I do me within a free market system of economy. If we agree on a business model and it’s mutually beneficial to go into business together, let’s do it. But, in addition we all agree to be an empowering societal force by setting up opportunities within our business models that truly increase the socioeconomic status of our employees and the general public - our community, state, nation, and world,  through both fully transparent charitable contributions to authentically effective outreaches and programs where necessary; and through fair wages with fairly scaled increases awarded to those who’ve genuinely earned them.