True security and stability comes through investment in and care for every person in your community.
If you extend "community" to include everyone in the world, then it will be clear that we all need to care for each other in order to cultivate and enjoy prosperity, peace and harmony.
It also stands to reason that each government should work in the interests not only of its consituents, but also in the interests of cooperation and constructive action with other members of the world community.
Every person -- and animal, and nautral resource -- must be afforded the same importance and protection from abuse, misuse and exploitation.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."