Letter to the Editor

Want to understand President Obama?

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

To the editor:

"2016: Obama's America" is a documentary everyone should see. It may change your perspective or reinforce it. Regardless, you will get to know and understand our president. It will help you understand how and why people respond to him. This documentary is very well-done using documented material, personal interviews and President Obama's books.

On a side note, do you know why governments fail? The world's greatest civilizations (governments) from the beginnings of history average lasting about about 200 years. They all go through the same cycle's, dictatorships/kings, to democracies, progress to socialist, and forward to communism or a ruling class structure, then back to dictatorships. Religion also plays a big part in this cycle.

A Scottish history professor placed the sequence of events for governments as follows: People in bondage turn to spiritual faith, armed with spiritual faith leads to courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, then apathy leads to dependence, and to complete the cycle dependence takes us back into bondage.

Thank God our Founding Fathers gave us freedom of religion, free speech and most important, a republic with God-given rights. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is spelled out in the Declaration of Independence, along with the Bill of Rights in our Constitution. Our God-given rights and republic are what make America exceptional. America is the great governing experiment designed to limit government in order to ensure our freedom; it's unlike anything this world has ever known. With a strong republic, the cycle can be broken! The oldest written constitution still in effect is our American one.

RD McAvoy
Blytheville