Fourth of July: Independence Day.
Our federal holiday where we commemorate the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.
But our country stands at a cross-roads.
This great land is looking out at great divides.
We need leadership.
We need cohesiveness. And house cleaning.
We need leadership that will bring us together, rather than polarize us apart, or continue to allow the government to be in consort with profiteering companies.
We are now profit over people. More than who we started out to be.
We started with a dream.
But it has not held up it’s promise.
Of course, all this starts with us.
But it starts so very much at the top, with a grand, effective leader.
Last night, we were sitting looking out over the lake at sunset.
Bemoaning the antisemitism and the physical fate of our kids. So many with ADHD and autism. All this hatred, shooting, unwellness. Has become the norm.
We all discussed that this would start to heal. With an effective leader.
A cohesive country needs a cohesive leader. That effectively leads the way.
Just as we the people need to be working on ourselves body, mind and spirit.
So does a country. Need to be working on itself, body, mind and spirit.
A healthy country needs to be for the people. Not profits. From war or industries. But for the people.
Sweden is consistently voted one of the happiest and best places to live in the world.
Of course it’s a small country and easier to govern. It’s 10.5 million.
The US is 333.3 people.
But Sweden, as much of Scandinavia, live by the Law of Jante.
The Law of Jante is a code of conduct originating from a fictionalized book. But now is used colloquially to denote a social attitude. Of disapproval towards expressions of individuality and personal success.
We are all one. And no one is better than any other.
In America we all want to be better than everyone else. But we are disparate. Not unified. In these longings for things and power and fame.
Our royalty are our movie celebrities.
Not sure why true leadership seems so very amazingly hard to achieve for our country when we had such a great start.
But it costs so much to run for president, that those that win are bought and sold by the companies that pay those fees.
War makes lots of money. For some of those at the top.
When Eisenhower left office he warned us about the industrial war complex becoming too strong.
Any industrial complex becoming too strong.
And that it has.
The longest period of time the US has gone without waging war was roughly 26 years. After the Vietnam War in 1975. Ending with our invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
How to heal all this?
We have so much angst aimed so much against each other, the fate of our kids and grandkids is hanging by a thread.
Safety on all levels. The health of our children to their rights to have whatever religion they choose. And to move through healthy phases of life the way Nature dictated. It’s all being challenged.
Our present leaders are not discussing any of this.
I am proud to be an American. In my heart. In my footprint. In concept.
But when I look around and see how unhealthy our children our are, how confused they are, how elderly are discarded and not honored, how entitlement reigns, how schools are not graduating kids with educational and IQ tools, how pollution is dinging IQ, how our government had to set the phases of development of kids at older ages as our kids could no longer reach them at the hard-wired ages, how many of our agencies designed to protect us get their money from the companies they are designed to oversee, we need leaders talking about this.
Not having ego pissing matches with each other.
Many are afraid to lead.
Afeared to say what needs to be said.
We now live in a time where science is censored. Medicine is censored.
I often get podcasts and postings on YouTube and FaceBook banned. I still get notices of what I wrote needs to be taken down.
Our Supreme Court just okayed this.
Since when are we about censorship?
Censorship is the crumbling of democracy.
Science and medicine and politics require debates. Respectful and informative debates.
When these respectful and transparent discussions are banned or lost. We are lost.
We are losing our way.
No matter our fireworks.
We have eliminated the top of classes and settled for mediocracy. Less intelligence. Less inquiry.
Many of our kids don’t want to work and only want to make a gazillion dollars before they are 30, they don’t care how, and then travel the world to play.
Bill Maher did an amazing rife on our kids. He said our kids test lower on math than any other kids in the world. But when asked, claim they have the highest math skills of any kids on the planet. We have raised those kids.
Our school systems have failed. But yet we have failed our teachers. They should be revered. Be the highest paid. They hold the future in their hands.
But it has become the opposite.
Our purple mountains majesty is shivering.
We need solid leadership.
Not revenge.
Not more money to big pharma.
Not another scamdemic of the unvaccinated.
Not anger.
But healing.
Solidarity.
We need to acknowledge the sun rises and sets for everyone of us.
Of every color and every concept of God.
We need to raise kids that respect the simple Golden Rule and hard work and accomplishment.
Vitamin R, resilience, more than inclusiveness. We need to encourage and accomplish this within our very cultural mitochondria.
We need to get back to basics. With a leader that helps take us there.
The concept of democracy is amazing.
Like how fish used to be a perfect food.
Before we polluted it.
Let’s remediate! On all levels!
I am off to do a July Fourth Parade.
Wearing a vote for Kennedy tee shirt.
I applaud your right to wear whatever tee shirt you want.
I invite in all comments. If made with respect and an aim of cohesiveness.
I am putting out a loud and robust call for healing, honesty and transparency.
Up with deferential debate and a focused healing light at the end of all our our tunnels.
Wherever they may lead.
Happy Fourth of July!
Keep America Amazing Again!
Dr. B.
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I don't want to comment on everything, because it's all so real and true, but I'll add that my heritage is Swedish and not only the idea of Jante is prevalent but also resentment of authority! They manage to live within a dichotomy that we Americans would quickly shred and politicize. Mostly they employ a sly sense of humor to do this. My son and I always said if we could live anywhere, we'd go to Sweden. Or maybe we could turn the US into a Big Mac Sweden--think that would work?