On this episode of Neutz World, I'm going to discuss the three great challenges that will

define America's future.

I decided that it was really important to understand historically where we're at as a country

and the challenges we have to meet if we're going to be successful.

I frankly got to that by thinking about the last period starting with Reagan.

And let me just say I think these three great challenges are pretty straightforward and

they each relate to each other.

The first one is to focus on the values and goals of the American people, to really meet

what Lincoln meant when he said government of the people, buy the people, and for the people.

To understand Lincoln's proposition that with popular sentiment, anything is possible

without popular sentiment, nothing is possible.

Lincoln understood this, Franklin Doughnut Roosevelt understood it, Reagan understood it,

and if you go back to the founding fathers, it's very significant that when they wrote

the Constitution, they thought that it had to be adopted in the states, that there had

to be public debate.

And the greatest political pamphlet of all time, the Federalist Papers, were in fact written

to influence public opinion and to convince people, and Margaret Thatcher's term first

you win the argument, then you win the vote, and the Federalist Papers was a deliberate

overt effort to win the argument.

So America was founded on this notion that the people matter, the people's voice matters

and the people's beliefs matter.

Second, we really need solutions that are as large as our problems.

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