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their business. We can apply Drucker’s rule to our country. What business is the United States of America in?

Although there were many debates in the founding of the country, the principles that define it, which show up in our founding documents — the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution — are very clear. It is a country about individual freedom, with a limited federal government, whose responsibilities are enumerated in the Constitution, but all with the objective of protecting the individual freedom of our citizens.

Democratic Party leaders can focus here to understand what the problem is with their party. Democrats fail the Drucker rule. They have completely detached from what our country is about.

We are completing four years of a Biden administration that paid zero attention to anything but spending money, expanding an already bloated government, and financing it all with mindboggling new debt and deficits. The principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility, as a national ideal, is and has been totally lost to the Democratic Party.

Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign promised only a new chapter of the same. She had not one idea or proposal that did not involve more government.

With individual freedom comes personal responsibility. This implies standards of right and wrong. In our nation, the Bible has always been the source for these standards.

George Washington said it in his farewell address. Abraham Lincoln said it in his second inaugural speech. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said it in his “I Have a Dream” speech.

Anyone that viewed President Joe Biden’s Christmas video message from the White House heard him say, “Too often we see each other as enemies, not as neighbors, not as fellow Americans.”

It is, sadly, true. But responsibility for this destructive mindset lies at the doorstep of Biden and his party. It is the Democratic Party that has fostered a culture, the antithesis of what America is about, that says that some do not have enough because others have too much. And that government should decide who has what and should use its political power to redistribute wealth.

The eternal truths that define our nation are the rules of the game that give all better lives.

Everyone seems to grasp this these days, except those leading the Democratic Party.

Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” Her recent book, “What Is the CURE for America?” is available now. To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators. com. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS. COM