Decades of field not desk pilot experiences in the intelligence, investigation, and security industries have taught me that there are three attitudes toward life: optimist, pessimist, and realist.

Optimists see a glass that is half full. Pessimists see a glass that is half empty, and I as a realist do not even see any glass.

Sometimes, all the wishing, hoping and praying will prevent a person standing in front of an on coming train from injury or death.

Colonel Travis of Alamo fame knew reinforcements were not coming, and was a realist when he drew a line in the dirt and asked for volunteers to step up to the line and buy the Republic of Texas time with their lives.

Noah was a realist when he built his Ark and left his neighbors behind to suffer Heaven’s judgment. More about this type of realism in Beyond Redemption Part II; remember both writing exercises are about explaining not complaining.

There are four primary types of addiction suffocating contemporary America: drugs, public subsidies, entertainment, and consumer credit.

Drugs include: caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, psychedelics, heroin, and prescription drugs.

Considering public policies towards other addictions, the following seems consistent: decriminalize all drugs and give all citizens drug stamps so they can get as high as they want when they want.

Consider Americans additions to public subsidies imagine a socialist society where citizens are given the following: cash , tax refunds for not paying taxes, free housing, rent subsidies, mortgage subsidies, utilities, food, medical care, education, and almost endless other freebies.

Your author must apologize, America already does that.

How about a country that gives private sector companies: income tax breaks. property tax breaks, sales tax breaks, cash subsidies, civil exemption from incompetent and negligent services, exemption from defective products, exemption from corrupt contract arrangements, exemption form war profiteering, and special contracts based on race or gender.

Your author must apologize again, America already does that too. President Jackson advocated equal opportunity without privilege. Citizens including businessmen addicted to public subsidies will always vote based on greed not for the best interest of America’s Constitutional Republic.

Maybe the time is approaching in America to not allow those addicted to public subsidies vote. After all, drug addicts are not allowed to drive a vehicle. So why are public subsidy addicts be allowed to vote?

As far as entertainment welfare, ever heard of PBS? Not a stretch to give all Americans sporting and exercise equipment. Why not go all the way and give everyone free televisions, radios, computers, internet services, internet pornography and free tickets to the entertainment activity of their choice?

America’s fourth addiction is consumer credit. Consider America’s President, Senate, and Congresses’ race to provide mortgage subsidies and send out cash to citizens to expand the citizens’ credit ceiling.

Governments have the ability to easier survive debt, as they have the ability to devalue their currency, create inflation with bureaucratic regulation, or simply print more money.

Societies building economies on consumer debt will eventually collapse. Citizens can only delay the inevitable by turning to money lenders, unethical capitalist, credit cards, and payday loans.

Both Democrats and Republican Leadership have become America’s leading dealers of addictions. Democrats have abandoned America’s middle class by reaching out to illegal immigrants to trade votes for welfare benefits.

Republican leaders have abandoned America’s middle class and national security with loyalty to aristocrats, corporate feudalists, unethical capitalists, internationalists and foreign governments.

Republicans will be most remembered for destroying America’s national security by deals with foreign governments which destroyed America’s domestic manufacturing base.

My final question for this writing exercise must be preceded with a few definitions of political views.

Definitions as follows:

1. Preservative – to keep safe from injury, harm, or destruction – example oath to uphold, protect, and defend America’s Constitution.

2. Conservative – political view based on tradition or social stability – example the King of England was a conservative during America’s War for Independence.

3. Liberal – life style bound by no moral restraint – example sociopaths, Democrats, drug addicts, sex addicts (child molesters), socialists, Marxists, Nazis, and Islamic Fascists.

4. Populists – political views based on popularity contests, polls, or unconstitutional mob rule – examples 2008 all Presidential Candidates except one (you the reader can figure out the right answer).

The above four political views can all be described with one of two adjectives:

1. Pragmatist – basing decisions on effectiveness or actions not emotions or lies called propaganda.
2. Idealist – basing decisions solely on ideas not effectiveness.

Note: pragmatist when used as a noun not an adjective describes amoral people who generally have personalities of children going through their “terrible twos”.

Being honest, I consider myself to be a pragmatic preservative, like American Patriots who refused to sign off on the Constitution until the Bill of Rights were included.

Being pragmatic used as an adjective, I would have no problem becoming an ally of contemporary American Conservatives if they would simply add loyalty to oath to uphold, protect, and defend U.S. Constitution from all enemies domestic and foreign including counterfeit conservatives.

Final question were not the principles of America’s Founding Fathers life, liberty, and property; not life, promiscuity and public subsidy addiction?