Thursday; November 9
How many times have you heard that our “system” is failing? Things that have built successful institutions like a constitutional form of government, a solid free enterprise system and even a moral society are now being called abject failures. In the wake of those proclamations are an overarching criticism that the “system” failed. In essence, what we once saw as good is now viewed as inept or even harmful. I will be the first to admit that not everything we have done in our nation or even as part of western civilization is the best way it could have been done; however, we must be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Again, nothing is perfect, but today we enjoy a solid economic foundation and get to experience modern advances that couldn’t have been imagined just a few years ago. This makes me wonder, are our modern struggles because the system has been wrong all along or is it because we have people who are failing the system? As I thought about this dilemma I s