Another way of introducing my newly published psychologically based book, What Would the Founding Fathers Say?: How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way, is to briefly share with you my thinking on where we are as a country today and how we got there.
Prior to receiving my doctorate degree in clinical psychology, I served in Korea, during peace time, as detachment commander in the U.S. Medical Service Corps. Overseas service helped magnify my pride as an American and taught me to appreciate the uniqueness of the United States as a land of personal liberty based on laws written by and for its people.
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What political parties do is reinforce the stereotypical views that our society places on being a Republican or Democrat, and by inference, being a human being. If you’re not in one camp, by definition, you are in the other one. The ‘camp’ or the ‘class’ that you find yourself in defines who you are and what you value in life. A very popular parameter that is used to put people in one class or another is money.
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As a way of introducing my newly published, psychologically based book to you, entitled: What Would the Founding Fathers Say?: How Today’s Leaders Have Lost Their Way, I’d like to share with you how I came to write this book. What was my motivation to do so.
I grew up during WW II. My father was too old to join the military, but, in his own way, he was very patriotic. He believed in supporting the war effort by buying war bonds and doing anything else to help defeat the Axis powers: Germany,
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