My last few posts have discussed the current great need for leadership in the world and why only the U.S. can provide it.  Wars, inflation, political uncertainty, the rapid growth of technology, all of these major events create a complicated and chaotic environment.  The reason why it is so critical for the U.S. to step up to the moment is because we are the strongest country in the world by far, and thus, only we can provide the leadership that is needed so badly.

Consider:

• We are the oldest democracy in the world, our brilliant constitution being ratified in 1787, with only 27 amendments having been passed in the last 236 years. The U.S. is an “invented” nation (as opposed to an evolved nation), established less than 200 years after the first settlers arrived in the early 1600s.  With a population of over 330 million, we are the third largest country in the world, behind only India and China.
• We have natural geographical advantages, such as stretching across the entire North American continent, with friendly neighbors, Canada and Mexico, on our borders. This makes the U.S. much easier to defend.
• As a nation of immigrants, we are descended from rugged individualists willing to risk their lives and livelihoods to travel across the ocean and establish themselves on a new continent.
• By the mid-1800s, as the nation began to fill up and industrialize, a system of universal public K-12 education developed so that all citizens would have an opportunity to become literate and acquire useful skills. At the present time, with public K-12 education floundering, especially in the larger cities, school choice alternatives are springing up across the country.
• Our free enterprise economic system provides maximum opportunity for individuals to thrive by developing their natural talents into productive careers. In fact, our amazing entrepreneurial business culture has now led to nine of the top ten companies in the world being American.

  

• Economic growth leads to social advancement. There are plenty of naysayers about the American economy, but it is still the best there is. We have achieved huge economic and social advancement in recent years and continue to do so.

  

• As the top power in the world, the U.S. has adversaries such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, who envy our elevated status and want to bring us down.  But we also have many strong democratic allies around the world.  Democracies seldom go to war with each other.  Together with our allies, we have far greater economic and military strength than our adversaries.

  

Conclusion.  The U.S. has many strengths as a nation that we should clearly recognize but never take for granted.  We are the one indispensable nation in the world and should accept the responsibility to assume a strong leadership role.  It is in our own best interest to do this because the world will then be much better off as a result.

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