Dear Editor:
Unlike the Roman Empire, America has its barbarians or illegals. People around the world are encouraged to look to us as their sugar daddy instead of looking to themselves to do the things that have lifted other countries from poverty to prosperity. Modern America reminds me of the television show "The Walking Dead" except the world is ravaged by an epidemic of faulty ideas and lack of historic prospective. The only way we can save the future is to change the present.
Family is society's most basic unit. Entire civilizations have survived or disappeared, depending on whether family life was strong or weak. These first experiences in the home mark the beginning of education and of religion. If a child sees such traits as love, honesty and fair play practiced at home, he will probably have these traits as an adult. A child's home training may fail to give him the basic intellectual, emotional and social skills needed to adapt to formal schooling. Cultural deprivation is responsible for the rise in the number of low-income families. Such problems include juvenile delinquency, crime, divorce, alcoholism, pregnancy, prejudice, slums, unemployment and corruption in government.
Many people blamed their troubles on the government which was attacked by many political parties using collective fear and promises to rebuild the economy to its past glory. Karl Marx claimed that the economy is the prime source of social change.
Social change refers to any significant change in structure of society. Short-lived changes such as changes in the employment rate or the election of a new president is not social change. But replacement of the presidency with a dictatorship changes the structure of government and is thus a social change.
On Feb. 27, 1933, the Nazis burned the Reichstag (parliament) building and accused the Communists of setting the fire. Hitler persuaded Hindenburg to sign a law "for the protection of the rights of the people and the state." This law wiped out individual rights in Germany and allowed the Nazis to jail anyone without a trial.
In George Orwell's classic novel "1984" he warned about the evils of a totalitarian state dominated by a single ruling party with total power over its inhabitants. The character known as Big Brother reminds everyone he is constantly monitoring the citizens, mainly by telescreen.
Recent history provides numerous examples of nations that have traded freedom for security and gotten neither.
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