Purpose

This blog is to address the growing problem of American incivility in the private and political sphere. We all know people who have differing beliefs than we do. We believe differently about marriage, God, the nature of the family, the influence of science and religion in the public sphere, and how much control the government should have in our every day lives...these are just examples, not points to bicker about.
That is the difficulty of the social contract theory. We get to decide where we want to go. Every civilization has had this right, this innate struggle for existence, that we have so grandly ennobled as our inalienable right to choose..without the blood of a revolution. We instituted these democratic and more importantly republican traditions so that instead of replacing wicked and tyrannous kings with bloody revolutions, and brutal reprisals, we could change the kings, rulers, and laws we do not like by peaceful means. In order to do that, we had to place everybody on a equal footing. These things did not come all at once; but some of the things we had to replace was having the state church equal your ethnicity, giving equal access to the ballot box, and having more importantly a civil, non violent platform on which to discuss the issues of the day. Looking to the past, the Founding Fathers could see the not too distant bloody wars of the Reformation, as far back to them as we are to the Civil War. They could see the fall of the Republic of Rome. They knew what befell Greece. They knew of the excesses of the day, and despite all the heated passion they used to argue over the future format this Republic, made it a beacon of moderation.

This is a handbook of all the best writers of our day, and our past, to help us make good and better decisions regarding our future. It is a work of hopefully intellectual rectitude and the kindness of civility.