Culture – societal behaviors and beliefs
Creativity – the process of generating new ideas or concepts
Design – intentional planning
Democratic change – the process of generating new ideas to be imposed on societal behaviors through intentional planning – government of the people
Republican change – the influence of societal behaviors on the process of generating new ideas through intentional planning – government by the people
The combination of the three definitions of culture, creativity, and design somehow became political presented here in two different ideological thoughts. Government contains all of these elements but it is the implementation of the government that makes it more or less conducive to an individual’s life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. The basic difference between the two most common schools of thought in the United States is whether citizens have the ability to accomplish these on their own or if they need the government to step in and help them.
The big debate right now is health care. While some may take offense at the Democratic change definition above, it is a fact that if health care becomes nationalized we will not be able to choose whether or not we will participate in it. It will be imposed on all Americans. Therefore our government will have decided once for all citizens of the United States.
What about the citizens who oppose a national health care system? To draw some more from our Constitution, “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” These statements are taken out of the discussion of the reasons for seceding from Britain but they still state the premise for our government. Our conflict comes when two parties have divergent ideas on what will effect the safety and happiness of our citizens. Is one more right than the other? Citizens who are currently without health care may say that nationalizing health care will greatly increase their safety and happiness. Citizens who are currently able to participate in the health care system may argue that the nationalization of it will decrease its efficiency and effectiveness, while all feel sympathy for the plight of those desperately in need of health care but who are unable to afford it.
The true challenge of our government is that in order to reflect the views of its citizens, the citizens must participate. Citizens should be behind the creativity the government is showing in their design that will affect our culture in this democratic republic in which we live. Our government needs to hear from its constituents in order to correctly represent their desires. We need to be active in elections and communicating with our elected representatives in order to have our beliefs and ideas represented in our government. Even then, the majority will win out, so we must also be active in our communities educating our fellow citizens to the benefits or perils of the issues being decided by handing out pamphlets, becoming involved in debates, hanging posters, and more. Then when a change comes along that we disagree with, we can accept it more comfortably knowing we have done our part.
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