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We are not even to the “halfway point” of our epic “Rediscovering America” trip, and I have identified one common thread that ties almost everyone I talk to, as it pertains to their opinion of the Government…“It’s time for a change.” 

When you look at the opening lines of the document that we celebrate on July 4th, there is a sense that much of it could be written today, regarding the frustration we have with our current political state of affairs…

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Let’s get one thing straight…I am not an anarchist. But, I have certainly moved further and further away from the “organizations of politics” which would claim me as a member. The reason for this, is that over the past few decades, I have gone from “dipping my toe” in the waters of the political ocean, to full body immersion, to being swept out to sea, and finally reaching a point where I want to be safely on an island, watching the cacophony that is modern politics from a great distance.

Unfortunately, there is no such island, if I still want to be close to my family and home golf course.

So…again, I find myself working to unite those who find themselves of the same mind. And, I think that over a couple of key points…we can almost all agree.

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