Rescuing America’s Democracy From Its Collapsing Morality

Democracy has been a rare and fleeting occurrence in human history. This is because in a democracy citizens must possess virtues which are antithetical to the much more powerful animal passions that have in the early stages of human evolution promoted the advancement of the species, but which now serve as obstacles to further advancement. These powerful animal passions are those associated with dominance by and surrender to an alpha male. Democracy demands that the ordinary people must not allow themselves to be controlled by external forces. It requires the ordinary people to assume the burden of disciplining themselves according to a moral code that is based upon treating others as equals not as entities to be dominated or worshipped. The early American settlers possessed these virtues, but over the centuries, these virtues have diminished to the point that Americans are in danger of reverting to the more natural animal state of dominance and submission. In this book, the author presents policies and social institutions that will reignite the qualities of self-reliance, self-control, and a belief that humanity has a destiny to treat others as ends in themselves and not as means to an end.