Opportunity, Individualism, and Liberty.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about the meaning of the United States of America over the course of the past 16 months, ever since the election of President Obama. I respectfully disagree with the President on many more issues than I agree with him, and many of these disagreements warrant their own discussions. But I think I've discovered that, at their core, my differences with the President stem from philosophies of government that are diametrically opposed to one another. It seems like great ideas often come down to "sets of 3," and I've isolated 3 concepts that form the core of my philosophy of government: opportunity, individualism, and liberty. I plan on exploring each of these 3 ideals over the course of the coming weeks. In my opinion, they form, and have always formed, the foundation upon which our nation was founded; and it is through these virtues that the United States has become the greatest nation the world has ever seen.