Its time to be united as citizens of the world since we all face global challenges at home and abroad
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September 22, 2022
WASHINGTON (AGN.News) – Never before in human history has the world faced non-stop threats from environmental changes, conflicts between nations, food shortages, increase in crime, and a rapid change in support for laws and law enforcement.
What are the causes?
When the question of causes are posed to people with various social, economic, or ethnic backgrounds, the answers were many and varied. One answer stands out: the inability of many to see one another as relevant in the 21st century.
In a 2018/2020 study of American history by a group of business professionals, there was an interesting fact discovered during reasearch. The study revealed a lack of knowledge of many world changing events from 1650 through 1950 among the general United States population.
They discovered the lack of concern for the needs and opinions of many in populated metro areas. This lack of knowledge of historical events were not adequately addressed by leaders.
Their study also revealed the policies of leaders were made to fulfill the often misguided ambitions of those entrusted with the power to help those in their charge.
The rise of ambitious leaders often lead to revolts, wars, and oppression of communities of people even the death of the innocent.
American Colonists wanted a better life
As the 1750s arrived, many of the people in the American colonies wanted a growing input into how the economy of the colonies should be conducted. So they partitioned the British government for some form of relief especially as it related to taxes without representation.
What they got in the mid 1770s was the British army coming to suppress this “group of rebels”. As history has shown, that was not the answer. The British could have been more accommodating, preserving the status quo.
Colonists had many issues
These colonists had to fight for their lives and freedom. They created a Declaration of Independence and a Constitution to govern this new nation. They fought a war that went on for eight years.
In the end, a new nation, a new government, and a new set of challenges. They had to tame this land and educate its people. They setup colleges and universities to establish an educated class who would pass on knowledge to the next generation.
The UNITED STATES was born
The newly formed nation knew the country would expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific and on islands of the sea. The leaders always knew this new nation would have “growing pains”.
In 1812 the British came back to bring this new nation into the fold. Again they boarded their ships and went back home as a defeated army. The United States would always fight to remain a united people. Never again would the people of America be subjugated to the British.
Building a nation is the main goal
The new country needed to educate its people. So schools were setup throughout the colonies. Many of them are still in existence. Yale University, Harvard University and Cambridge University are among them.
Those colleges and universities produced leaders who did not always agree but knew a new nation needed a united front to survive. By 1861, another test faced the leadership of the country. President Lincoln called it “a great civil war”.
Gettysburg Address adds insight
He also said, “our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
President Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, the 16th president said, “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.”
The president added, “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here thus far so nobly advanced.”
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – President Abraham Lincoln
Now is the time for unity
Its time to be united as citizens of the world since we all face global challenges at home and abroad. The Founding Fathers of the United States knew that unity would always win in the end. They did not know the future world would become a highly competitive world of advanced technology.
They did not know rivers and lakes would dry up. The air was so clean, they could not conceive of a nation of polluted air. The lakes were full of fish and the oceans were full of seafood.
Yes, people were ill with disease like smallpox but new pandemics killing hundreds of thousands or millions, was non-existent. Air pollution and water pollution was almost unheard of prior to the Industrial Revolution.
They had no idea what financial greed at all cost would do to ordinary citizens. Massive theft of pandemic funds, organize retail theft by groups, organized technology crimes, simple disagreements leading to loss of life, and shameful language used by the nation’s leaders.
If those who died at Gettysburg so “that nation might live” could see the country now, what would they say? Many of us had family members who died in the Spanish-American War, World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. How happy would they be to see what has happened to “new nation” that Lincoln spoke of at Gettysburg?
Everyone can promote unity
Many are promoting unity as volunteers, providing assistance to the underprivileged in our communities.
Teachers are continuing the tradition of educating the next generation of leaders. Community organizers are leading the parade of volunteers to promote peace and harmony through example.
Others are creating opportunities for employment, some are training and hiring the unemployed, others are setting up trade and technology schools to educate the unskilled.
Others are refusing to destroy the lives, livelihoods and businesses in their community through crime.
Some are now turning away from crime and offering to help build a more “perfect union” of communities to grow local businesses. From criminals to entrepreneurs, what a difference that would make!
Friends and family can support unity
If you know someone who are committed to wrecking the lives of others online or offline, contact them, show them the harm they’re doing to the country, they are needed to help build up the country in a positive way, explain to them the value of offering to help their former victims.
If you have a family member or friend whose conduct or behavior is contributing to a breakdown of the fiber of the neighborhood, city, county, or country, you can try to communicate how valuable they can be to their local community and the country.
Everyone is relevant to unity
We can help our friends, family, and neighbors to see one undeniable fact, that is, they are relevant and needed. They’re needed and wanted by the community, by the neighborhood, and the country in this 21st century just as the colonists in the 18th century.
Let them know the country needs their expertise and qualities to help not harm our global community. Let them know they have talent or skills the country needs to bring the community together.
We can encourage them to offer their skills to the community. Let them know they can volunteer. Let them know the community needs them. They need to know they are relevant! Tell them they are relevant!
We have “unfinished work” to do!
We can encourage our friends and family “to be dedicated here to the “unfinished work” which they (The Union Civil War Soldiers) who fought here (in Gettysburg) thus far so nobly advanced.”
We can encourage them to “be dedicated to the great task remaining before us” so that those thousands of soldiers who died in Gettysburg would not have died in vain.
It really is time to be united as citizens of the United States and citizens of the world since we all face global challenges at home and abroad.
After all, there is one fact that we need to remember… the word UNITED is the first word in our country’s name… the United States of America.
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