that s a near record low. i d like to share what i think is so special with america. for starters a founding document and founding fathers were truly geniuses. a giant leap forward for mankind. to lay out a series of negative in a noble rights endowed by your creator, free from the interference of government. freedom of speech, freedom of property and freedom to pursue happiness. other countries make promises of happiness. they give away gifts and entitled you to positive rights to healthcare to your home and recreation. but all of those rights come at the time of negative rights. your property sacrifice for another s home. your labor sacrificed for another s health. your speech sacrifice for another s happiness. these founders were geniuses who stood on the shoulders of thousands of years of western enlightenment from judeo-christian enlightenment to james madison. special. but even more special is our culture, our people. one of the most distinguishing characteristics of america is t
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Doing Good, Becoming Better, Following Leaders Reading Parts One and Two of Arc #185 published previously, would benefit a reader for an understanding of what follows. In Part One, I described my youthful dreams, the egalitarian aspirations that humans have not managed to realize, and in Part Two, I raised questions of leaders and followers and the absurdity of some