NOTE: The following was published as an editorial in the South Bend Tribune on November 27, 2021.
If you cannot answer these questions, then maybe you should not be voting, running for public office, or running a newspaper:
1. What is meant by “the pursuit of happiness” as expressed by our Founding Fathers?
2. What is the difference between a “right” and a “privilege?"
3. Were you ever officially questioned as to your fidelity to the Constitution and given opportunity to demonstrate how you have advocated the principles espoused therein?
4. What is the difference between being a citizen of the United States and a citizen of the world?
5. If you were to revoke your citizenship in the United States, what would change about your life and being?
6. Do you believe efforts to “defund the police” are aimed toward domestic tranquility and would enhance the same?
7. What measures would you propose to keep enemies of the Constitution from being eligible for public office?
8. What measures would you propose to enhance the common citizen’s ability to verify that his vote is accurately counted as cast?
My elected officials will be, and are, hearing these questions from me. I will be collecting and publishing their responses next spring. Can you believe I already hear crickets in my future?
Take any three of the above questions and answer them. Or even one. If a nation is going to be strong, then its people need to understand and articulate those things which make it strong.
As it stands we have not given due dilligence to these questions and instead forged ahead under the delusion that we can govern ourselves without a foundation.
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