Introduction

It is clear here, at the opening of the 21st Century, that there is a chasm between what the United States of America should be and what it is becoming. That chasm, plainly, is idiocy, defined for our purposes as the willful perpetuation of false ideas and ideals in the name of American history leading to the pursuit of ridiculous and counterproductive courses which endanger the health, safety, and welfare of the American people. While some of this idiocy is as plain as the nose on one's face, much of it is veiled in obfuscation created to keep the average American from seeing any part of the truth clearly enough to recognize the whole artifice as corrupt.

Within these pages, I hope to outline the disconnect between what American is -- a Constitutionally-driven democratic Republic with the potential to become greater than its founders could have imagined -- and what many in this country would have you believe it is -- a debased, self-indulgent, rootless, lawless, over-legislated, morally bankrupt nation in need of radical religious and social reform. This disconnect is the chasm of idiocy that we must bridge, if we, as a people and a nation, are to reach our full potential. Before we may accomplish the righting of our course through history, we have to take a step back and fix a firm gaze on what we are doing right now and how that relates to what those who formed this nation originally intended.

Your author will no doubt be called heretical from many corners of this land for what you are about to read, but the first step to breaking the grip of idiocy is to see clearly what we choose not to see, and recognize that not all those things shouted in the public square are true to the core. A modicum, a scintilla, an iota of truth may be spun into a grand and elegant fiction which seems true enough that it is not questioned. If we are to be true to the founding of this nation, however, we must hold to the idea that everything must be questioned, even those things that seem within our best interests. This nation was founded upon the bedrock principle of an informed electorate choosing those who would best represent their interests locally moving to a national stage, where the best interests of all would be considered in open debate. Where we have strayed is in allowing that bedrock to crumble beneath the weight of self-interest and political control. It is there we shall begin.