America Key is Individual Power

--Over time, he feared, the state would take away citizens’ free will, their capacity to think and act, reducing them to “a herd of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd."

Alexis de Tocqueville

de Tocqueville, with his background providing the frame for his unique position for evaluation of America's place in the world, was absolutely spot on.  As noted in the fine piece at Daily Signal astutely analyzing de Tocqueville and his conclusions, he critiqued in "the spirit of friendship."

Quoting from the piece, de Tocqueville wanted us to “remember constantly that a nation cannot long remain strong when each man in it is individually weak, and that neither social forms nor political schemes have yet been found that can make a people energetic by composing it of pusillanimous and soft citizens.”

Alexis de Tocqueville should be required reading for high school, if not middle school students, throughout America's public school system.  I might ask the members of Congress to familiarize themselves as well.