The primary problem in American society and the US economy is that America and Americans are running away from their first love. Americans are running away from being Americans. The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America is a Holy document which describes very clearly what it means to be an American and what we have to do to accomplish that. The inequality and polarization that plagues America is the direct result of America and Americans not doing the US Preamble. Doing what the Preamble tells us to do defines America and what it means to be Americans in America.
The US Preamble:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
The ultimate vision and mission of America is that we the people, all the people of the United States of America, form a more perfect union.
Not a "UNION", Not an "OK UNION", Not a "GOOD UNION", Not an "EXCELLENT UNION", but a more "PERFECT UNION". Everything else that follows in the Preamble was designed and created to help America and all Americans achieve a more "PERFECT UNION":
Establish Justice
Provide for the common defense
Promote the general Welfare
Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
These strategic goals are not equal to or on par with the vison/mission of "forming a more perfect union", they are subordinate to and tools or resources for achieving a "more perfect union". A major issue or problem in the way that Americans are not doing the US Preamble is that they are taking words out of the preamble and using them alone to foster or accomplish what they want, which has the effect of not achieving the most important goal of the US Preamble, creating a more perfect union. Example: Freedom!!!!!!!!
One of the primary reasons that America is so polarized and that society and the economy is not working best for everyone is that the word liberty or freedom in the Preamble is taken completely out of context. Freedom in America does not mean the individual right to do what what we want to do and how we want to do it with no concern for how our actions are negatively effecting or even destroying others lives. That is not what the Preamble says and definitely is not what the Preamble implies. The Preamble does not say we are free to do whatever we want to do. It does not say we are free to win by any means necessary, and if others get hurt or killed in the process it's OK.
Hell to the No!!!! Where do we even remotely see that implied in the Preamble. No where!!! In the US Preamble, freedom or liberty is defined in the context of achieving a more perfect union. In the context of achieving an economy and society that works best for everyone. There are 330 million Americans in America, each of us all different, with different talents, situations, wants and needs. So the job of working together and figuring out how we can work, live and play together in a way that works best for all of us, is an enormous task.......but it is the task that represents the secret sauce and source of what it means to be America and American, it is the source of our strength, our super power that makes it possible to create the synergies necessary in our society and in our economy to work best or everyone. As a matter in fact it is the only way to achieve that. Corporate America knows this. Corporate America uses the principle of a more perfect union to achieve its goals in the market place.
To win in the market place, corporations with hundreds, thousands or even millions of employees absolutely cannot win in the market place with the highest quality products and services at the most affordable price to consumers, by allowing their employees the freedom to implement their job responsibilities, any way they want to and by any means possible, with no concern for how those actions may negatively impact other workers, the productivity of the corporation, consumer demand for company products and services, etc.... Employees who demand or worse yet act on that type of freedom will not be free to work for the corporation for very long.
The best and most sustainable corporations take serious the challenge of creating a more perfect union. They make the time and investment in creating a vision, mission and supporting strategy that attempts to the greatest extent possible to create responsibilities for all workers that allows workers the freedom to be the best version of themselves possible when achieving their work responsibilities in ways that allows all other employees the freedom to be their best version of themselves possible in the achievement of their responsibilities, while simultaneously maximally achieving the Corporation's vision and mission in the market place. This is the Ultimate Win-Win. This is Amercia!!!!!! Achieving that balance is hard, hard, hard ass work, but it is hard ass work that is worth it and creates the best and most sustainable medium and long term benefits for the corporation (Shareholders), its employees, its customers and the environment in which it operates.
The problem again is that over the last 40 years, 90% or more corporations and companies do not operate under the principle and more important do not operate under a strategy associated with a "More Perfect Union", because it is much much much much much much easier to win and win big time by exploiting others at their expense or even at their destruction. For many of America's companies, the more perfect union principle is maintained only for those in the executive suite or those with very close ties to the executive suite and members of the board of directors...................everyone else is expendable. That is why wealth inequality in America is at the highest levels in history with private sector debt levels and borrowing per GDP by companies and corporation in America at the catastrophically highest levels ever, because of the "LEGALIZED" cheating and embezzlement that has occurred over the last 40 years and continues to occur even to this day.
The big issue here is that there seems to be something missing. What is it in the life process or in human nature that would cause people to choose to do good or the right thing to do, when they can easily choose to do the wrong thing, and get away with doing the wrong thing with no negative consequences and as in matter in fact, actually be rewarded handsomely for doing the wrong thing??? What fool in their right mind would ever do the right thing under these conditions? The fools who know that injustice and corruption is not sustainable for the perpetrators of this corruption or the larger society.
The secret sauce for actually being able to implement the principles and strategies associated with achieving a more perfect union in business or the broader society requires "that we love and care for one another as we would like others to love and care for us". If Americans actually made/make time to do this, our economy and our society would make provisions for and incentives to ensure that everyone in America has an equal opportunity to be the best version of themselves possible. If this were true, America and Americans would be living in a "More Perfect Union". What person would be "UNHAPPY" with living in a society and economy where they have equal opportunity to be the best version of themselves possible....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... "CRICKETS".......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... NO ONE!!! (except exploiters and that's between 10 - 30 million Americans - that's a lot of people, but it is only a small fraction of all the people in America) The only reason we do not live in a more perfect union, is because there are so are many Americans who do not believe and will not act on the condition and requirement that we love and care for all others in America like we would like other to care for ourselves. It is much much much much much much easier to lie, cheat, exploit, steal and kill to get what is wanted and enjoyed at the expense and destruction of others - especially if we can get away with it, with no harm to ourselves or no harm to the ones we care about.
This is the American problem, the moral virus, lustful itch and addiction that cannot be satisfied by getting, taking, stealing or killing more to get what is lusted for. Once what is lusted for is obtained, the lust for even much more is uncontrollably stronger.
Fortunately, this problem is completely and easily fixed. It is a problem of the heart and the soul. It can be fixed in a moment, in a second, in the twinkling of an eye, because it is a matter of free-will, nothing is stopping America from being who she is and who she says that she is as described in the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. However, our free will to choose to lust after taking the easy way out and the path of least resistance defines much of America today. Currently America is on the path of cementing a legacy as the World's Greatest Society and Greatest Economy, to miss the opportunity to actually come closest to creating Heaven on Earth by simply being who we say that we are as defined in the Preamble to the constitution of the United States. America is disgracefully not coming anywhere close to meeting that vision, because so many American's lust for the opportunity to exploit others, take the path of least resistance, winning lavishly at the expense and destruction of others, actually creating a Hell on Earth, burning and destroying itself in the insatiable and unquenchable fire of fear, hate, polarization, victimization, destruction and death.
Again, this tragic path is not predetermined. The ball is in our court. The solution to America's problems has always been with us, looking us square in the face. America's Solution is simply to be who she is as expressed so eloquently and simply in the Preamble to the constitution of the United States of America. In the Bible Jesus said, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments". What America and the world needs is for America and all Americans to show that they love America and that they love the world by simply being Americans, being who they say they are as expressed in the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. Americans returning to their first love and being who they say they are is simply doing the US Preamble, making the US preamble become flesh, and dwelling among us in our behavior, everyday toward one another, both now and for future generations of Americans.
I challenge you, show me or explain to me why this is not true and why it will not work, if all Americans will commit to and follow through with their actions and behaviors consistent with being Americans as defined in the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. Bring it please!!!!!
