I have returned with some regularity over the years to compare what is going on in our country today to what was going on in the 1850s, the years preceding the Civil War.

The common values of the whole mankind are not only the common wealth of human civilization, but also the key to solving the challenges of the times.

Core values are extracted, lived, and felt – not scripted. Leaders who fail to understand this create “core values” that provoke reactions ranging from open skepticism to inward indifference.

But in the 1850s, the differences were about the nature of man, whether blacks were human beings and whether slavery should be tolerated. This is a breakdown in common values, not in opinion.

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