Theological Science and US Politics
The US government began to form a Union when Alexandria Hamilton proposed a strong national government. But, Adams and other anti federalists feared the development of rich industrialists. Thomas Jefferson thought that the USA could become a farming nation. Soon, the American System of Economics became popular. This economic system is based on sciences and technologies that reduce the prices of human necessities continually. The American System was applied by Abe Lincoln when he industrialized the South and lured homesteaders to develop the West. However, after Lincoln’s assassination, science and technology are no longer used to reduce the prices of human necessities. Instead, we hear about using science and technology to create wealth. So, the ‘big families’ emerged, Then, a rich and poor class emerged. With WWII and military science and technology, a middle class emerged.
Help for the poor came with the science and technology of the space program of President Kennedy in 1960s. In 1971, President Nixon proposed the last domestic initiatives that could save the poor class. In August 1971, I represented the US Department of Justice at the first White House discussion of Nixon’s domestic initiatives. Coming from a poor family, I was very excited. Unfortunately, President Nixon was forced to resign after the ‘Watergate’ political event.
Today, the US government is not producing any new and significant sciences. Also, new technologies that would reduce the prices of human necessities are not developing by the US government. So. I must ask, "What is happening to the USA?
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