Defined by Principles.

America is a very unique and special country. As the political season heats up both MaCain and Obama have been trying to define just what it is that makes America so great, and I have to tell you the rhetoric I hear coming from their mouths is quite funny to hear. What is it that makes America great? Or, more importantly, how is America defined? What is it that makes this country different from all the others around the world?

America is not defined by a culture; on the contrary it is simply a mixture of almost every culture found around the world. There is no American culture except for the mixing of other nations cultures, which adds up into something we call America. Nor are we defined by geography, for we are not native to this land (except of course of American Indians) and expanded our nation continually from our birth to the present day. We are not defined by a language or a common heritage; we are not defined by a grand and ancient history which binds us together, nor by monuments of a last age. America is not defined by its rivers and seas, its mountains, grasslands, wildlife, sunsets and cities. These do not tell us what America is.

This nation is defined not on any of these things, but on the bedrock principles lade out by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution.; namely the principles that all men are created equal, and that we are endowed by our creator with certain rights, and these rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These are the foundation of the “American Way,” the core beliefs on which this nation was created. These beliefs do not simply represent America, they ARE America. The United States without these core values is no longer the same country, not even if it holds the same land, runs the same system of government, and has the same people living within its borders. America without these beliefs is nothing more then an empty shell.

This is why I have maintained a libertarian point of view throughout my posts. I believe in these core values just as our founding fathers did. I believe that government should be used to protect our rights and that if it becomes destructive to those rights we the people have the right, no, the duty to abolish said government and establish a new. The sooner people start to really believe in the values that this nation is founded on the better we’ll all be. Long live the constitution.