The Grand Experiment: What Went Wrong?
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General Albert C. Wedenmeyer (Wedenmeyer Reports) remarked, "one often hears individuals state that they want good government; but many seem primarily concerned with security, material rewards power, prestige, recreation and entertainment rather than with their responsibilities as citizen". This book, written in Streams of Consciousness, will hopefully provide some notable examples of what he meant. It is a collection of my personal thoughts and opinions ranging in scope covering religion, politics, parenting, philosophy, social issues, immigration, corporations and history. My goal is to provoke critical thinking in an individual who is persistently directed with sound bites on how to think from all fronts. Consequences can be devastating when decisions are made without relevant facts. Hopefully this book will provide some insight to th reader from a layman's point of view.
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America’s lax moral attitudes are placing the nation on the brink of national suicide. No other nation has ever purposely promoted its own self-destruction. At no other time in recorded history has a nation’s internalized sense of guilt dominated its social and political thinking; never a collective desire to purge itself of self-fabricated guilt complexes whose origins are, more often than not, imaginary.
We have devolved into groveling apologists seeking redemption for being a great nation. The path of least resistance, it seems, lies in undermining the customs and traditions of time-honored institutions that once made many of us proud Americans.
About the Author
Alipio Baldi was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1952. He attended private and public schools in Manhattan and the Bronx. He was educated at Fairleigh Dickenson University (BA), Saint Louis University (MA), and Iona College (MBA). He lives in Yonkers, New York, with his wife, Rose, and their cat Mitch. His stepson, Charles Hernandez, lives in San Francisco.