American Freedom is Creating & Maintaining a More Perfect Union for All Americans as America's Highest Priority
- Carlton Buford
- Jun 25
- 19 min read
Updated: Jul 20
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Freedom, in and of itself is not America’s highest priority or most valued aspiration. As a matter in fact, American’s blind lust for FREEDOM with little or no concern for how our FREEDOM impacts others is the primordial source of America’s most pressing and catastrophic issues and challenges. Some Examples.....
1. The Massive Wealth and Opportunity Inequality of the African American People, as a People, in America continues to overwhelmingly stand out by a very very wide margin in reality and in the numbers/statistics: Because of White Americans FREEDOM, Freedom, Freedom, Freedom to enslave, segregate and discriminate against only, only, only. only, only African American immigrants to America for the first 350 years of America’s existence
2. Catastrophic Climate Change: Americans FREEDOM, Freedom, Freedom, Freedom to continue to aggressively and arrogantly ignore the catastrophic and real threats of Climate Change over the next 10 - 20 years, is creating a more perfect union for the wealthiest 1% of Americans in America at the catastrophic expense of everyone else. The 3 Million 1% will not be inviting the 340 Million 99%, to live come with them in their secure bunkers, 10 to 20 years from now when life starts to become unbearable for human life on this planet
3. The Global Credit Crisis and Great Recession of 2007 – 2009: Ronald Reagan & the Republican Party’s FREEDOM, Freedom, Freedom, Freedom to Deregulate, Defund(Catastrophically Reduce Taxes) and Financialize the US economy for the wealthiest 20% in America, at the catastrophic expense of everyone else from 1983 – 2007, directly and absolutely caused the Global Credit Crisis and Great Recession of 2007 - 2009
4. America’s Worst in the World Response to Covid - 19 on the Planet Earth: Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s FREEDOM, freedom, freedom, freedom, to lie about the dangers of Covid-19, saying it was no worse than the Flu, and anyone saying anything else is just trying to steal your Freedom and American Patriotism, caused more Americans to be unecessarily killed by Covid-19 in just 2 years than all the soldiers killed in all US wars since the Civil war to this current day.
5.America's Arrogant and Immoral totally unjustified FREEDOM, Freedom, Freedom, Freedom to start a war with Iran this year, causing the largest uneconomic and costly war in the history of the world, catastrophically negatively impacting every country on the planet - creating new catastrophically costly risks for the global economy that now may be a permanent fixture in global and political economics on a going forward basis
Freedom, free of responsibilities to others - produces chaos, disruption, separation, exploitation, war, death and destruction.
The US constitution provides the underlying and durable principle for understanding how Americans should use their “FREEDOMS” to maximize benefits for themselves and simultaneously maximize benefits for all Americans as a collective whole:
“…..We the people, of the United States, in order to form a “MORE PERFECT” union, establish justice….”
Just think about it, logically, how do we achieve the most important goal or aim of America which is to create and maintain a More Perfect Union for All Americans as it highest priority? In America a more perfect union is a union where everyone or all the individuals in the union are freaking happy and excited about being able to develop and become the best version of themselves individually because, because, because, because, because, because of the effort, time and investment all Americans working together to discover the most synergistic ways to work together as a nation, state, city and communities, so that together, we are able to best individually become the best version of ourselves doing what we do best and love to do and at the same time, this best synergistic organizing of how we learn, work and play together, allows America to be the best version of itself as a collective whole simultaneously or at the same time.
Let's just think about why this is true in general. In Latin, forming a more perfect union is expressed as E Pluribus Unum, which means out of many, one.
In America there are 342 million people. Forming a more perfect union, means that we have a process in America where we can justly and fairly discover and understand the best way for all 342 M of us to learn, work and play together so that everyone individually is doing what they do best and love to do, and we are also able to accomplish that in a way so that communities, cities, states and America as a collective nation is the best that it can be, for all 342M Americans and not just the wealthiest 20%. This is the mission of America, this is the goal. This is the context in which Freedom should operate in America to achieve America's Highest Goal - A More Perfect Union for ALL Americans. The best use of our freedom is to willfully and lovingly use our freedom to create and maintain a more perfect union, because doing that makes us the best that we can be both individually and collectively. In America we are free to use our freedom, however the hell we want to use it. The constitution, the principles of physical science, life science, social science and morality all scream out loudly that Americans best use of their freedom, is to willfully, lovingly and graciously use our freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom to create and maintain a more perfect union for all, as America's highest priority. However, in America, we are not forced to use our freedoms to create a more perfect union for all. Unfortunately history has shown us over and over and over and over and over and over again, that when we do not use our freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom to create and maintain a more perfect union, we create problems and catastrophes, for ourselves, our communities, cities, states, America and the world.
Freedom, that is free to serve our own selfish purposes without considering how our freedoms impacts others is anti-American, exploitive, and seeks to extract benefits and value at the expense and even destruction of others. The challenge and highest priority for America is that we use our freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to willfully and lovingly to create and maintain a more perfect union for all Americans as America's highest priority.
Many people may ask the question, what is America For or what should America be for? The US constitution says that America should be for, willfully and lovingly, using our freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to create and maintain a more perfect union for all Americans and not just the wealthiest 20%, as America's highest priority!!!
Diversity is at the heart and soul of achieving a more perfect union for all Americans, because every single American is distinctly different, because the evolutionary process in nature, creates these differences or distinct specialties in us so that we and our unique differences or specialties become can be harnessed and used by human society to answer questions or solve problems in ways that no one else in the world could do it the way that we do it in the service of problems or issues that no one on earth could do as effectively as you can with the difference or specialty that only you were born with. This is why it is so important that we get to know what our special super powers are, how we develop them to be the best that we can be and that we all get to know and value the diversity or unique specialties of others, so that we develop and achieve the maximum synergy, working together to achieve, the best more perfect union for all as a united whole, while becoming the best version of ourselves individually. That miraculous and maximized synergy will not happen, if we do not make the to understand and appreciate the diversity of others and helping them to maximize their specialties while we are maximizing our own diversities or specialties. Our differences and specialties are silver and gold solution nuggets for many of the world's most pressing problems or latent opportunities, waiting for us to find our way to it. The more we take time to develop, master, understand and know our diversity super powers and the diversity super powers of others, appreciate and respect them, the quicker we all will get to making the world a much better place because we are here doing what we are born to do.
The DEI process is the process where you, I and other individuals in the America discover how our individual and collective freedoms clash or support one another, and over time, we together decide what is the most responsible and beneficial use of our freedoms, both individually and as a collective nation, so that everyone achieves the best win – win possible for themselves individually and for the nation as a collective whole.
DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) is the process by which people in a democracy develop, organize and become one, or A More Perfect Union For All. A more perfect union in this contexts means that the members of the group strategically invest their time and resources on each other to discover the best and most synergistic ways to learn, work and play together, such that the benefits of working and living together, as A More Perfect Union, are many many orders of magnitude more beneficial than going it alone.
Let’s analyze DEI in greater detail:
1. Diversity: Is the identification, development and mastery of the full set of differences or specialties of the American people's best and most unique portfolio of gift, skills and talents, prepared for the best super "SYNERGISTIC" use in the US economy and American Society.
2. Equity: Ensures that Diversity Development and Diversity Inclusion in America is done in a way that ensures a level and fair playing field is created and maintained for all Americans, so that everyone has the best chances of discovering what the best version of themself is and how and where it can be best harnessed in the market place and in society
3. Inclusion: Develops and maintain a process that Includes everyone who is physically and mentally able to actively participate in the education, employment and business processes in the economy and society at large.
DEI, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are actually the structural and fundamental building blocks for achieving the best version of democracy possible. What is the best version of democracy possible. The best version of democracy possible, is when everyone in society has developed or is developing into the best unique version of themselves possible, precisely because everyone in the economy/society has agreed that it is in America's best interest to make the time and invest in ourselves and in each other so that we discover what is the best and most synergistic way for everyone to work, learn and play together as a nation, states, cities and communities…..so that individually we are the best version of ourselves possible and simultaneously, collectively, together we are the best versions of ourselves as families, communities, cities, states and the nation as a whole.
The best version of Democracy possible is achieved through DEI. DEI is the process by which America achieves E Pluribus Unum. Out of Many, One. No short cuts. The short cuts to the democratic process are what caused:
1. Massive Wealth Inequality of African Americans in America
2. Catastrophic Climate Change Development and current out of control carbon emissions growth
3. The Global Credit Crisis and Great Recession of 2007 – 2009
4. America’s Worse Response to Covid - 19 on the Planet Earth
5. The 2026 Iran/US war of choice instigated by America's president, creating global chaos and Massive economic uncertainty, that could lead to US/Global recession, a multi-decade depression or a world war, all because of America's arrogance and tunnel vision caused by non-DEI policies and perspectives
Another name for the best version of Democracy possible is, “The creation and maintenance of A More Perfect Union for All Americans, as America’s HIGHEST PRIORITY – again this process is implemented, achieved and maintained by DEI, the most productive process for creating and maintaining life itself.
But you may very rightly and justifiably ask? WHY IS THIS TRUE????? Why in fact is DEI itself, the most productive process for creating and maintaining life on this planet, Let’s see!!!
The nature of the life process itself, thrives on and is successful because of:
1) the rich diversity of living things in life itself……..and……… just as important,
2) because of the rich and diverse ways that diverse life forms on earth interact with and become interdependent on one another, both within and across the many Ecosystems of life.
Now diversity in and of itself is of no value. The real power and value of diversity is its ability to create synergy beyond our wildest imaginations, when time, effort and investment are proactively added to the process to create and activate Equity and Inclusion with Diversity, so that massive synergies are created and maintained, so that the members of the Union, of the More Perfect Union, are Miraculously so much better together, than operating alone and unconnected from the diverse and interdependent Ecosystems of Life.
To reinforce what we have discussed and learned so far about freedom, let's re-examine some of the consequences of using our freedoms for Exploitive or Selfish purposes in American Political and Economic history
To get a more comprehensive and clearer perspective on how "EXPLOITIVE" American "FREEDOM" has created, accelerated and sustained the affordability crisis in America, for the bottom 80% in America while making the wealthiest 10% - 20% in America, wealthy beyond their wildest dreams, let's look at the very specific exploitive policy choices or freedoms, that were intentionally chosen and now magnify or shine a bright light on the K shaped economy in America, which is the practical effect or outcome of these exploitive policies and decisions.
Let's review some of the outcomes and consequences of American "EXPLOITIVE FREEDOM" leading up to, during and post the Covid-19 Pandemic to thoroughly contextualize the importance of how Americans should properly value and choose to use their freedom.
Exploitive American Freedom gave our 45th president and the Republican Party the power or the FREEDOM to do the following:
1. Immediately after coming to power, president Trump freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to Dismantled the National Pandemic Preparedness Response Team, which resided in the executive office. Prior to being dismantled the National Pandemic Preparedness Response Team lead and coordinated the much more dangerous, the much more contagious Ebola Pandemic outbreak in 2014, that was perfectly coordinated by this Preparedness Response team both in America and around the world with one voice and stopped the Ebola Virus Spread in its tracks, to localized areas in Africa with limited mass exposure outside those local African areas.
2. President Trump's freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to Shutting down of America’s international medical research and study organizations with the rest of the world. America normally provided leadership in these global organizations helping to establish priorities for coordinating and working together to identify and respond to pandemic virus risks, many months or years before those risks become a real threat. As a matter in fact, global studies were being evaluated and completed in 2018/2019 about global respiratory viruses like Covid-19, rising out of China, but unfortunately since president Trump had pulled America out and away from participating in these type of global integrated research projects, America was not prepared to harness that valuable research when Covid-19 broke out in China during the late fall of 2019. President Trump's purposeful freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to the dismantling of the Pandemic Preparedness Response Team, left America flying blind when news of Covid-19 had broken out in China, in the 4th quarter of 2019. But this is exactly how President Trump likes to lead, he destroys or dummy's down all important and high profile agencies to his level of understanding and then either he takes personal control of the situation or puts yes people in charge of those agencies who will do exactly what President Trump thinks and feels, with no respect for science, lessons learned from the past or what the constitution says. Only only, only only only President Trump knows best! Right?
3. President Trump used is freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to start a nasty and unnecessary trade war with China, cutting off all or most of US vital economic and social ties, with China, that would have been super instrumental for containing the Covid-19 outbreak in localized areas of China when it was discovered. America's cordial and friendly teamwork type efforts to achieve anything close like was successfully done to prevent Ebola outbreak was completely destroyed by Presidents Trumps spiteful, gaslighting and hateful rhetoric toward China and the Chinese people, blaming them for many of America's economic problems only as a means to find another scapegoat that he could use as fear mongering to recruit more Americans to support his 2020 bid for re-election. During the Ebola Pandemic, America had excellent diplomatic/trading relationships with the world's major economies and America was able to work seamlessly together with them to stop the Ebola Virus in the small localized area of Africa, before it could spread throughout Africa and around the world. President Trump freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to arrogantly and deliberately, out of spite and revenge, destroyed all of America's lessons learned and vital intelligence for shutting down a virus like Covid - 19, before it got started, like America successfully did with the Ebola Virus outbreak in 2014, under president Obama's magnificent leadership.
4. President Trump freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to use the pandemic as a wedge to separate Americans and gain followers for his reelection campaign in 2020, deliberately lying and telling Americans that the Covid-19 virus is no worse than the flu, it would go away when the weather got warmer, no need to do all this social distancing and wearing masks. President Trump promoted the view that if you believe in Freedom and you believe in America and you believe in him, then ignore these government scientist and elitist like Dr. Fauche, do not let these experts rob you of your American Freedom, be free, go to church, socialize, you do not need to wear masks and yes of course vote for Trump, because he is the president and he will allow you to keep your freedoms and continue to be true, patriotic Americans……that is a paraphrasing of the messages and beliefs that the president constantly preached to the American people, throughout 2020, even after many hundreds of thousands of Americans had been needlessly killed by Covid-19, right up to the 2020 election.
5. At the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic and after telling America for three to four months that Covid-19 was no worse than the flu and that the public had nothing to worry about - the rapid spikes in people dying all over the country caused President Trump to have to shut the US economy down for three to four months, then he had to print $3T - $4T to restart the US economy after having to shut it down, because he purposely spread lies about Covid-19, that did not allow Americans time to prepare and protect themselves, when Americans could have had plenty of time to prevent the virus from spreading and viciously infecting the entire nation. President Trump's Freedom freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to Exploit Americans for his own selfish purposes, left America and its citizens Naked and openly exposed to the Covid-19 virus. America had 4 months to prepare and protect itself, but President Trump used this 4 month period as an opportunity to further polarize America and get more voters lined up behind him for his 2020 re-election campaign. Yes he had the freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to do that, but that freedom was not moral, ethical, wise or economic, causing the unnecessary and completely preventable killing of 1.2 million Americans in just two years and caused the largest and sustained bout of inflation that remains with us to this day, since the Great Inflation of the 1970s. The dramatic rise in inflation over the past 5 years was 100% driven by President Trumps very very direct and specific decision in 2020 to use his freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to sew chaos, disruption, hate and revenge maximizing polarization in America for the benefit of his reelection.
So what was the results of these glorious acts of American freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms by our 45th President and the Republican Party
1. More Americans were unnecessarily killed by Covid-19 in just 2 years, than all the soldiers killed in all the wars America has fought over the last 160 years, including the American Civil war. 1.2 million Americans were unnecessarily killed by Covid-19 in just two years. America, the wealthiest, most scientific, the most medically astute with the knowledge and resources for dealing with a respiratory virus - performed the absolute worst, by a wide wide margin relative to any other country on the face of this planet. China, Taiwan, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Switzerland, were all countries that followed the well-known science about respiratory virus's and followed the preventive measures and rules, such as social distancing, masks, tracking and isolation of people identified as infected, following these well-known respiratory protection practices caused Covid-19 cases and deaths in these countries to be very very small fractions of the case and death counts experienced in America, both on an absolute number and percentage basis
In America, you were considered patriotic and a proud American supporting your president if you did, the exact opposite of what the science has told us for more than 300 years, what the best behavior for mitigating the effects of a dangerous respiratory viruses is. I repeat, in just TWO YEARS, America unnecessarily lost more Americans to Covid-19, than all Americans killed in all American wars over the last 160 YEARS . What is the Dollar Figure for the loss of 1.2 million Americans in just two years, NOT 160 YEARS, BUT IN JUST TWO YEARS, 1.2M AMERICANS, UNECCESARILY KILLED! This outcome is a direct, causal response to President Trump's freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to be arrogant, Non-DEI, immoral, revengeful, spiteful and deliberate actions and policies meant to create personal and egotistical gains for himself at the expense of the American people and the world. Willful and intentionally Selfish Selfish Selfish Selfish American freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom working overtime!!!
2. Economic disruptions, supply chain breakdown and Trillions of Dollars in money printing to try to quickly correct massive disruptions and destruction in the US and global economy that could have been totally avoided if President Trump did not use his FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM to drive chaos, death and destruction to win voters for his reelection campaign. But remember this is America, the President is Free to use his Freedom as he pleases. The rampant inflation from 2021 - 2024 was the direct and causal result of President Trump and the Republican Party's freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms to use the US economy and the American people as Trump’s vengeance and victimization tool for locking in more voters leading up to his 2020 reelection campaign. I think this example in American History vividly demonstrates that FREEDON is not FREE in America, especially when it is disconnected from the pledge that we use our Freedom to Create and More Perfect Union for ALL AMERICANS AS AMERICA'S HIGHEST PRIORITY. I am sure when the founders were writing the constitution and thinking about Freedom, I am sure that the Freedom that President Trump and the Republican Party, took it upon themselves to inflict on the American People is not what the founders had in mind!!!
Then what type of Freedom did the founders have in mind?
Let's see what the founder's wrote in the constitution of the United States of America
"We the people, of the United States, In order to Form a More Perfect Union, establish Justice…"
The constitution here infers that we are free, free, free, free, free to creatively work together in ways that creates the best win-win for all Americans, justly and as fairly as is humanly possible. We should not be using our freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms of speech and freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, freedoms, of actions to deliberately cause chaos, polarization, strife and hate which fragments and weakens the country as a whole, so that more power and control is taken by the Wealthy few, who exploit and rob the masses for their own selfish benefit.
This has and continues to be the unadulterated truth and fact about the US economy, especially over the last 50 years. The wealthiest 20% in America now own 80%- 90% of the wealth in America. 70% - 75% of consumer consumption in America is being done by the wealthiest 20% of Americans in America. This inequality does not get better but has just gotten worse and worse each year over the past 50 years and is on a path to accelerate catastrophically quicker over the next 3 - 8 years with the ungodly ramping up of AI, not for the benefit of All Americans, but for the excessively extreme benefit of the wealthiest 1% of Americans at the expense of everyone else.
This is exactly why The Economic Gospel for the USA was created. To create and maintain the Great Win - Win for America and the world. The issues and problems facing the world are almost unconceivablely catastrophic when viewed from an isolationist perspective………everybody and every man and women and every nation you are on your own…………. versus . ............. we are all in this together……….in the US and Globally, We Are Our Brothers Keeper!!!
THE ECONOMIC GOSPEL FOR THE USA IS HERE!!!!
"The Good News" Winning the best Moral, Economic and Social outcomes for America and the world by Winning America's Love for being American to all other Americans and Winning Americans Love for being American to the rest of the World”
"Being American" is WINNING America's LOVE FOR prioritizing the creation and maintenance of A More Perfect Union for "ALL AMERICANS" as America's HIGHEST PRIORITY"
The Constitution of the United States of America implies that Freedom is not totally Free in America. With Freedom comes great responsibility. America's Highest priority is the creation and maintenance of a More Perfect Union for All Americans as America's first and most important priority. So in the context of Freedom in America, Freedom should really be used to create and maintain the best " More Perfect Union for ALL AMERICANS as America’s absolute Highest Priority!!!
First let's discuss the value of having A more Perfect union for All Americans as America's Highest Priority. A more perfect union is a union where all the members of the union are to the greatest extent possible - very happy and pleased with what their role is in America and what they are actually able to achieve with the role that they are playing in America. This collective more perfect union is one where everyone is very happy with their role and what they are achieving, however this does not just automatically happen and fall into place by itself.
A more perfect union is much more than an agreement where all the members form a consensus and just agree to keep the bare minimum requirements needed to meet the goal that we have an agreement on. No!!! A more perfect union is an agreement where enough preparatory and upfront work has been done, DEI, so that to the greatest extent possible, all members of the union or group are freaking excited and happy about the agreement because conditions have been created or maintained so that all members of the union have been considered, developed and integrated into the group in a way that allows them to develop and use the best version of themselves in the service of important work that needs to be accomplished and this work is also the type of work that each member values highly and loves doing. The effort required to achieve this more perfect union for all 342 M Americans is called DEI and We are our Brothers Keeper, or in laymen's term, this type of collective work is called pure love. Another name for this type of work is called Democracy. E Pluribus Unum. Out of Many (342M Americans), One!!!
Heaven on earth for an individual is achieved when people discover who they are, what their super powers are, develops and masters those super powers and then discovers where they can best use those super powers to make the world a much better place because of what they are contributing to life, and their love and value for that type of work.
Heaven actually being on earth is when every individual on earth achieves what I have just described as heaven on earth for an individual.
The big question is, are we going to care and love each other enough and put in the work to try to make sure that we achieve this level of happiness for ourselves and others and how do we work together as a family, city, state and nation to ensure that everyone in the nation has the opportunity, resources and guidance to create heaven on earth conditions for themselves and their families, to the greatest extent possible.
We are our brother keeper and it is in this context that we understand the true meaning of American Freedom. Given that American citizens highest priority should be in the support of the creation and maintenance of a More Perfect Union for All Americans, as America's highest priority, then the best use of American's Freedom should be to help ourselves and help others create and maintain a more perfect union for all Americans as America's Highest Priority. The highest priority and goal of American Freedom is to use that freedom to create and maintain a more perfect union for all Americans as America's Highest Priority. Using American freedom this way, individually and collectively, creates the best outcomes for all Americans, individually, collectively and as good global partners to the rest of the world.
let's discuss, what are your comments, questions, recommendations, feelings, etc……
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