Can Lincoln Still Lose?

 

The animosity between Americans and thus government demonstrates an ignorance about the difference between two souls: a leader of a people and a master of a property. Abraham Lincoln and hundreds of thousands of others died for one versus the other.

 

“I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.” Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858.

 

Just as each of us have a body and soul, so too does a nation. For the United States of America, the “United States” is the body and “of America” its soul. Each of us is an occupant of the body and a caregiver of the soul. We’re responsible for the survival or death of that soul. Survival or death is a freedom of choice of a people, until “of America” dies and we become a property.

 

Government is given one of two forms by us: leadership or mastery. The one created is determined by the foundation of the soul of each of us. It’s each soul’s bravery or cowardice as molded by our governments of choice over time that determine the governments we create.

 

A government of leaders grows a people with knowledge. A government of masters grows a property with ignorance. A government of leaders grows a people with bravery. A government of masters grows a property with cowardice.

 

What a government says is its marketing. What it does is its soul.

 

A government of leaders goes amongst a people teaching them how to survive, which isn’t the same as how to stay alive. A government of masters preens in front of its mirror of self-importance telling its property how good it looks.

 

The creation of a government of leaders requires a people’s effort to grow knowledge. The creation of a government of masters requires a property’s effortlessness to grow ignorance.

 

Lincoln fought the masters. He can still lose. We still have the freedom to choose our government, until we surrender that freedom to our choice of masters.

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Just a fellow American