Introduction: The Global Generation Meets the Greatest Generation

In this transformational age, we can’t wish the world away. We must:

* Advance liberty
* Preserve tradition, and
* Achieve constructive change for Americans

Yes, the Republican House Policy Committee strives for constructive change, because we agree with the conservative philosopher Russell Kirk:

“The thinking conservative understands that permanence and change must be recognized and reconciled in a vigorous society… Just how much change a society requires, and what sort of change, depend upon the circumstances of an age and a nation.”

We all must assess America’s circumstances and challenges; and achieve constructive change. This is how we will enhance the America we cherish for our children. As America experiences globalization’s growing pains in an age of hope and peril, there is no more solemn duty.

Let us be inspired by the parallels between our “Global Generation” and the “Greatest Generation.”

America’s Greatest Generation surmounted a quartet of transformational challenges born of industrialization:

* Economic, social, and political upheavals
* A world war against abject evil
* The Soviet Union as a strategic threat and rival model of governance, and
* The moral struggle to equally ensure the God-given and constitutionally recognized rights of all Americans, regardless of race

Today, America’s Global Generation must transcend a quartet of transformational challenges born of globalization:

* Economic, social and political upheavals
* A world war against abject evil
* Communist China as a strategic threat and rival model of governance, and
* Moral relativism’s erosion of our nation’s foundational, self-evident truths

The critical difference is this: America’s Greatest Generation faced their four challenges consecutively; America’s Global Generation faces our four challenges simultaneously.

Knowing America does not exist to emulate others, America exists to inspire the world, we must advance American Excellence’s foundational liberty, and four cornerstones of sovereignty, security, prosperity and truth:

* Our liberty is from God, not the government
* Our sovereignty is in our souls, not the soil
* Our security is from strength, not servility
* Our prosperity springs from the private sector, not the public sector, and
* Our truths are self-evident, not relative

In this dawning millennium, we must champion what we cherish within the permanent realms of faith, family, community and country; achieve constructive change; and renew American Excellence.

Honoring this duty, we will ensure our America remains a community of destiny inspired and guided by the virtuous genius of our free people; and forever blessed by the unfathomable grace of God.