Editor's Note: Brother Aaron Dowdy of the Clinton First United Methodist Church asked futurist Ivan Potter to share his thoughts on America, past, present and future on the 4th of July. Here is the transcript of what he said.
"...We have, since day one of our birth, been “the beacon of light" in a world clouded with darkness and the shadows of slavery, hunger, ignorance, war, and man’s general cruelty to man.
However, somewhere in the hope of the 1980s we, as Americans, lost our way.
No, let me be brutally honest.
My generation of baby boomers who voiced a new idea of change with our government’s polices in the 1960’s and 1970’s lost our way...."
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