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America is politically divided down the center line between individual freedom and a so-called greater common good. Half of the country is trying desperately to protect and preserve a maximum level of individual freedom and liberty for themselves and future generations, while the other half is desperate to take from those according to their means in order to fill the perceived needs that they have failed to fill on their own.

Many American voters are struggling to escape the reality that freedom isn't free and never was. They try to hide from the fact that freedom to excel bears with it the freedom to fail, and run from the truth that although freedom is quite "fair," - equal freedom will never result in equal outcomes.

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson

Half of the nation still believes what the founding fathers believed, that the risk of individual failure while in pursuit of personal excellence, is a small price to pay for the right of self-determination, absolute individual freedom and liberty.

But over the last century, the other half have been trained to accept personal failure as a predisposed condition beyond their individual control, which can only be remedied by an increasingly intrusive central power equipped with the authority and means to strip one of his lawful earnings for the alleged benefit of another.

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government." - Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government of extremely limited power and means is exactly what our nation's Founders put in place over 230 years ago. Half of our nation now sees these ideas as out-dated, unfair and as some form of oppression wherein the "haves" (aka self-reliant achievers) run roughshod over the "have-nots" (aka under-achieving dependents).

America is the most generous nation on earth, always willing to help with bounty or blood, anyone unable to help themselves, here or abroad. But some seek a more progressive system by which economic equality, as defined and distributed by a central power, replaces a "greed" driven individual pursuit of happiness under capitalism, otherwise known as economic freedom.

For half of America, the enemy is "the rich" - the profit driven corporation - the self-reliant - the self-made American. For the other half, the enemy is anyone who seeks to take from them their lawful earnings, their right of self-determination, their private property and unalienable rights, in the name of some greater good.

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson

There is no greater power on earth than the power to hold the lives of others in one's hands. The power to decide how much is enough for some and how much is too much for others is the greatest power available to man. But it is a power which is always temporary…

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