Omniarchy

A Collection of Essays Concerning American Public Policy Issues

De: Chuck Hanrahan

Narrado por: Chuck Hanrahan

Unlike every other nation in the history of the world, America was not founded simply upon the bases of communal physical considerations such as geography, tribe, caste, race, or religion. Rather, it was founded upon the shared, evolving, and occasionally conflicting ideals of liberty and equality of opportunity and with the hope that the fulfillment of these ideals would enable its citizens to realize significant individual and collective achievements.

This is the American dream, and as pervasively as possible, the United States government should endeavor to propagate those ideals by providing every human being - regardless of race, gender, lineage, religion, or nationality - with an equal opportunity to realize their dreams, however they might choose to define them.

How we choose to do so, our means and our methods, are fit topics for debate; that we do so is requisite. Our secular and democratic mores are ascendant throughout the world, but many challenges remain, both at home and abroad. Our nation cannot fall into the ancient imperial trap of safeguarding the results of achievement rather than preserving our potential for it - of dividing the people of the world into those who have and those who want and of assessing the stagnation of stability as superior to the productivity of change. These challenges are mortal threats to our national legacy.

The purpose of government is to permit its constituents to enjoy their lives, liberties, and opportunities, free from the twin tyrannies of anarchy and oppression. A government created by of and for the people and that defends the inviolability of human and civil rights is both our collective birthright and a noble trust. Having been created and defended by the sacrifices of the patriotic, today, this legacy is jeopardized by the indolence of the affluent and the sanctimony of the smug. The quest to honor our heritage by embracing its values and not its accomplishments must be perpetual.

Although we cannot hope to attain the absolute realization of these American ideals in our lifetimes, we cannot be disheartened by this impossibility because the act of striving both enhances and ennobles. Until human beings are perfect, Elysium will elude us, but our quest for it must endure. We cannot be lulled into complacency by the substance and import of our own achievements because there is so much more yet to achieve.

The United States is the greatest nation in the world, but neither America nor the world in which it exists is as great as they could be. Making them so should be the primary objective every patriotic American and is the primary objective of this collection essays, or as our nation’s first president and the father of his country said to his fellow citizens in his farewell address of 1796: “The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”

©2004 Charles P. Hanrahan (P)2020 Charles P. Hanrahan

A well written masterpiece

A book that depends on facts to back up claims, it is well researched, every chapter is titled Ian I do believe that whether you are Republican or Democrat there isn’t anything you can dispute in the spot. Mr. Hanrahan must be a professor, because the language in the book reflects a very learned educated person. He even goes back to the initial definition of whatever prophecy is explaining Ian or talking about. For example when he talks about gun ownership and how people say they have the right to bear arms which is our second amendment. He explains that this was put in in case we needed another militia. Because let’s keep in mind the Constitution was written soon after the revolution happen. I wish I could explain it as well as he does but I cannot. This book is 19 hours long and it is the book I will go back to in the future. I couldn’t read it all the way through because it is a lot of detail it isn’t dense or too much… Just a lot! This is why I would read a few hours and then turn it off and ponder what I’ve read or listen to rather. All in all as I said is the next island book that was well researched and well written and backed up with facts which is something I love because everyone has opinions but not all of them fall in line with the facts.