Polarization…dangerous for the country.

We need moral, constitutionally-driven leaders.  Fiction allows us to yearn for such leaders and helps us identify them and demand they serve a Republic that so desperately needs them.

Many elements of American life and culture became either “right” or “left.”  Media objectivity was practically non-existent and had been since the 2008 campaign, if not before.  Newspapers and the electronic media were openly right or left, not only with their editorial commentary, but in their presentation of news.  Objective reporting, with few exceptions, disappeared. 

Non-activists in all lines of work were labeled liberal or conservative, not categorized by any overt political views, but by other activities in their lives: the schools their children attended, the philanthropic causes they supported, the companies they worked for, the acting roles they took, the cars they drove, their investments, the shows they watched on TV.  Whether Americans were consciously aware of it or not, they found themselves picking sides.  Many realized they didn’t have a side they wanted to pick.

The Tenth Amendment:  The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Powers Not Delegated, a novel, available this fall...and, who is Tyler Armistead?