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The War for America’s Soul

David Keyston
5 min readMay 30, 2021

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Freedom, Law, Principle, or Tyranny, Chaos & Wokeism

America is at a crossroads with two roads to challenge the traveller. One road is vaguely familiar, a road that has a history of certainty, of honesty and overall fairness. The other road takes one down a path of something strange, unfamiliar, newly disturbing, divisive and politically inept.

Self-interest and a false sense of social justice has changed the political and cultural landscape of this once great nation. It used to be that self-government was what America was the birthing ground for, a fertile place for a vivid imagination to flourish and succeed in; a place of opportunity. Today we recognize that political elites have nurtured a dependence on government in the individual for too many decades, obfuscating the vision of individual success through personal achievement. Now, we see every form of government reliance and subsidy that further erodes a proper sense of individual initiative, of independence.

Is it right that the individual be dependent on government? Is it desirable that individuals not have to work for those things and ideals and goals that actually mean something to them, whether school, health, career or the goal of a better life through achievement?

These questions should haunt us and cause us to question the new path that this political arena…

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David Keyston

Lover of liberty, the Constitution and the rule of law, respecter of real money, cryptos, healing the world through prayer, oh and racing cars & bikes.