”Americans must be American Again!"

Americans must be Americans Again!

Let them dream afresh the noble dream that made us see.

Let true patriots arise and renew America's claim

Of being the home of the brave and the land of the free

Let Americans recall the Framers' aims—

Let them build that bountiful land we once swore to love

Where neither tyrants' ploys nor traitors' games

Force anyone from anywhere to bow to those above.

Let Americans strive anew to make America the sweet land of Liberty

One unscarred by false pride or jealous greed,

Where the air is redolent with the scent of true Equality,

And Opportunity proliferates to answer every need.

Let us reclaim the poorer Whites, incited, duped, and driven wild,

And welcome the Reds from whom far too much has been seized.

And embrace the Blacks still scarred from being slavery's child

And accept the Yellows once into internment wrongly squeezed.

Welcome the immigrants clutching fast to hope in desperate need—

Fighting bravely against the same hard-hearted, vicious band

Ever to incite hatred, fear, and spite and to slake their rapacious greed

To keep others away from their places in this fortunate and promised land.

Let Americans look to the youth, all full of courage, hope, and daring-do

And keep them safe from that vast, far-reaching web of vile shams

Of propaganda, plots, and profiteering plans, of malice through and through!

Of broken promises and devious tales promoting nefarious scams

Let Americans demand an end to defaming workers and stealing their pay!

Of everything to slake one's lust and nothing for any other's need

Let them join with farmers who depend on soil and weather's whim each day.

And enlist all workers to end the stranglehold of corporate greed.

Let all Americans again dream those storied dreams.

That arduous work, skill, and ingenuity can lift all to new heights

That today's battles presage the bloom of more benevolent themes.

Let us, though beleaguered now, persevere in securing to all their Rights.

O, Patriots! You are they who never bowed in the face of woe and fears,

You are they who bravely raised the banner of the hallowed ideals

Who fought on though battered and disrespected all these many years.

You alone never forgot how devotion to the best within us feels.

While dreaming a dream so right, so bright in hue,

It shined through all the stone, concrete, and steel,

So forever more its mighty clarion rings forth anew

To make Americans strive to now prove their noble commitments real.

Americans are children of those who crossed the storm-tossed sea

All descendants of travelers from obscure and ominous climes,

Who risked all they had in a quest for what might and ought to be

Braving the waves in different ships from diverse shores at distinct times

Americans, no matter the strand from which their families came

Hope against hope to make themselves and their posterity free.

Now with courage, we rightly claim American as our honored name

And make America everything to everyone that it might and ought to be.

Let Americans once again recall all the evils we've fought and felled

And sing again the stirring anthems we so long have known

And hope again all the soaring aspirations we'd so fervently long held

And lift all the brave banners again that for centuries we've joyously flown

Though millions now have lost so much, they've almost nothing is left to lose

Though many are yet striving the cherished name, American, to win

We vow the dream has never died and will not die while we can still choose!

O' let Americans be Americans again

We, the people, who have as yet too seldom been

Must now see, the land we have is the land we make

And despite the odds, rise and insist Americans be Americans again.

Through the truths we tell and the risks we take

We must recall the meaning of ideals we once so cherished

And as Americans boldly and solemnly, our authentic Democracy reclaim

Our principles, purposes, and promises before they have perished

We must again lift our national vision and focus on the highest plain.

Americans: Female, Male, Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, and White

All need to focus on the who, what, where, why, and when

And, arising together to carry forward the grand and glorious fight

By insisting, at long last, that "Americans must be Americans Again!"

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Make America Good Again!

Our Founders described America in their famous Declaration

It set forth the premises and promises of our emergent Nation.

Its purposes and processes make up the Constitution,

Though as yet, we've not brought them to fruition.

American officials are elected to govern, not to rule.

Just power is not a weapon, but a tool.

Elected office is a chance to mend each fault and fissure.

It is not a sinecure for making oneself richer.

Power must be an instrument of progress, not selfish gain

Those who deploy power meanly the Nation's honor stain,

Every agency and officer must secure all citizens' inalienable rights.

Whether these citizens be Blacks, Browns, Reds, Yellows, or Whites

America's Republic forms one Nation and one people - indivisible.

Words and deeds that disrupt our unity are frankly impermissible.

All authentically patriotic Americans must rally to its banner

And assure liberty and justice for all in a firm and honorable manner.

Now we once again face times that try our souls.

Will we stand by America's ideals and struggle for its goals?

Without a renewed commitment of lives, fortunes, and sacred honor,

The last, best hope of humankind may soon become a goner.

Will we prove to be sunshine patriots and summer soldiers?

Or will we now resolve to take this burden on our shoulders?

Will we find the courage celebrated in our stories and songs?

And rise in unity and right many of the wrongs.

Although times are turbulent, the raging battle is not lost;

Now, all true American patriots must pay a portion of the cost.

Let us resume the struggle to bring our principles to be;

And ensure treachery no longer stains the banner of the free

America will not bloom as what it must and ought to be

Unless all of us assume and well perform our solemn duty

Our hallowed Republic and its Constitutional ideals

Will not function fully while so many blithely cool their heels,

America's Creed is splendid and no burden to defend

But if words don't become actions, our shame will never end.

Every sworn and silent enemy, we must confront and rout.

Citizens must affirm and advance the Creed and act to carry it out!

So, my dear compatriots, there's not much more to say.

The crucial question remains: "Will we rally and save the day?"

Despite our manifest differences, we are all equally human,

And the mission driving us forward must be "E Pluribus Unum!"

Every Citizen An Heir

We, the People, in far too large a measure, have either forgotten or willfully ignored a fundamental and abiding truth of the American Republic. It is not now, nor has it ever been an accomplished fact. It began as and remains an ongoing quest. The “Republic, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” to which so many Americans have so often pledged allegiance is not some idyllic paradise in which tranquility reigns and with it ongoing survival and success assured. 

The Republic will endure, when and only when we the living hereby highly resolve that its roots have been watered by the blood of patriots who fought against all its enemies be they foreign or domestic. The Republic will succeed and bloom when our eternal vigilance and dutiful diligence engages and energizes us to constructive action to advance unity, liberty, justice, community, and prosperity for all Americans and for America as a polity. The Republic will wither if too many of us take it for granted or withdraw into personal fixations or trivial pursuits.

If We, the People, do not intelligently and indefatigably take care of the Republic, it will undoubtedly be taken from us and from our posterity. We, the Republic, must recognize that no one of us is them; there is no them! There is only US! Accordingly, the vast majority of Americans must supplant I in their political and social creeds and efforts so that Illness is transformed to Wellness. United we soar but divided we stall. From here onward, We, the People, must demand that those in power must see the Many as One and this perspective means WE all are US!

Every person born or naturalized in the United States is a citizen of the United States and of their state of residence. Every citizen is an heir to the foundational premises and fundamental promises of the American Revolution, and no citizen will be able to fully benefit from her or his inheritance or make the most of it until and unless the following principles are overwhelmingly accepted and pervasively practiced:

1.         The complete and equal humanity of every person is recognized and respected regardless of any differentiating physical, philosophical, intellectual, or social characteristics, or personal and sexual preferences among them.

2.         Each human is acknowledged to have the full complement of inherent natural rights, and these rights are recognized and respected in all persons by every person.

3.         Governments derive their just powers from the consent of all the governed, as ascertained through a free, fair, unfettered, and inclusive voting process.

4.         Whenever people in authority fail to protect and promote the natural rights, deserved privileges, and immunities of all citizens or to ensure every citizen has the full range of civil rights and civil liberties enjoyed by any citizen, it is the right and duty of citizens to depose such people and choose new officials to so protect, promote, and ensure.

5.         We support the realization of the preceding or progress toward it with our efforts, our resources, and our unremitting dedication.

6.         Unity of principle, purpose, and practice is continually improving throughout the land.

7.         Justice is established and functions effectively for everyone.

8.         Americans enjoy peace among themselves and insofar as possible are at peace with all the nations and peoples of the Earth.

9.         Americans contribute according to their abilities to a common defense of America.

10.       Robust and shared prosperity reflects, promotes, and sustains the general welfare of all.

11.       Our parents, ourselves, our posterity, and our compatriots enjoy the blessings of liberty to the maximum extent possible. 

12.       Involuntary servitude does not exist in the United States except as a punishment exclusively for people duly convicted of crimes.  

13.       No state may make or enforce any law which abridges the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. And no state may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, and no state may deny any person subject to its jurisdiction the full and equal protection of the law.

14.       The right of any citizen of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, political persuasion, sexual orientation, gender, social status, religious or philosophical creed, ethnicity, or ancestry.