As a reminder: This is the final part of a series based on my recent illness ramblings. Start with #1 for the context.

Note #4: We are NOT ready as a people to make good decision about the future!

If the future is up in the air in the next four years, we should take stock (carefully) of where we are as a nation. Assuming that we are willing to reject a vision of the future in which the government rules over our personal and national economies, where will we go from there? My sense is that we are NOT ready to make either the commitments or the changes necessary to change our country back into a land where freedom and responsibility can and will dwell together. Here are a few of the fault lines where we are apt to fail:  (more…)