Reading about Gilbert's upcoming Constitution Week reminded me how young our country is, comparatively speaking.

Our Constitution is coming up on a mere 2 1/4 centuries. Our Constitution: pieces of paper, a document of words, but an inspired edifice of freedoms.

We are still in infancy when world history is completely understood.

There have been governmental institutions that have existed for millennia.
We are the little brother and sister in our world family, yet we are the ones who are put on the forefront to continually police, direct and referee the world's domestic battles.

Doesn't that put us in a tough position to be the little guy of the family who tells the big brothers what to do?

They had earned the right to lovingly rule over me just by simply having come before me.

We should help the world, lovingly. We need to be of assistance to those who are underprivileged, lovingly. Absolutely, we should be the leader when it comes to freedom and a belief in equality, lovingly.

Yet, it hasn't taken long for our own infantile foundation of truths and democratic philosophy to now be cracking and undermined by our own leaders, locally all the way to the national level.

Loving leadership is a concept slipping through our young society's fingers. The idea of democracy is being tested by candidates who are socialistic in a democratic bodysuit.

The hidden agendas that our candidates are pushing ever so nonchalantly and deceitfully are the exact contradiction to what we are as a country.

We profess to be the little brother of goodness and mercy for our global neighbors yet our own walls are beginning to lose strength in integrity and honesty.

Do the history! A country fallen always falls from within.

The political battlefield has already been a nasty showing of our own domestic differences. We're not talking a differentiation in just basic partisan platform issues.

We're talking about differences in national structural stances such as same-sex marital rights, socialistic medicine for all and nationalization of the oil industry.

As the youngest sibling on the world stage, we can't afford to have leadership corrode our country from within. We're wasting precious time asking the wrong questions and focusing on the wrong issues.

For example, many claim they wouldn't vote for Mitt Romney based upon his personal religion even though his political ideology encompasses the values of our inspired Founding Fathers.

Yet, many people are jumping on Hillary Clinton's political agenda only because she's a woman, a woman of political stance that is the furthest from our Constitution's foundation.

We can be the little brother or sister on the world front of global leadership but only if we stay true to the values that have brought us this far in our young journey as the greatest nation on Earth.