America needs to reboot back to our founding principles, or our liberty will eventually evanesce.

I was under the impression this debate would be about a restoration of american roots, not whoever can give the best speech. Most of this seems to show incredible conservative bias, so I will attempt to stray from that in my debate. I would like to clarify that I'm not arguing that are founding principals are wrong, but that we need to be more progressive in our acceptance of new principals and ideas.Things have changed.------------------------ The world has changed a lot since good ol' washingtons day. We have been through the enlightenment , modernization, progressivism, and introductions to new economic themes and governing styles. Warfare has changed. Markets have changed. Government has changed. America is on the brink of a new era, and we can be the forerunners. Traditionalism can be dangerous.-------------------------------------There is no doubt that if a nation is unwilling to reform, there will be consequences. Let me give a few examples.- Enlightenment: Russia, was sadly left out of the enlightenment era. While other european nations were thriving in new religious reforms and educational advances, Russia was still being subjected to the medieval social structure. It took 100s of years to recover from the effects. Which left Russia weak compared to its neighbors.-Modernization: Many nations had fallen by failing to modernize in the 1800's. Many of the nations had the ability to modernize, but they choose instead to stick with tradition. It turned out terribly for them. Nearly every nation on earth had been colonized. All due to favoring tradition over progression. - Progressive Era: The progressive era was marked by many changes in how the government should interact with its citizens. America was the leader in new reforms, such as mininum wage, womens suffrage, and social policies. Many of these things were very new to Americans. By the time it was all over, America had become a super power. Not because we stuck to tradition, but because we realized the need to progress.Rebuttals------------Conservatives indubitably understand that liberty prevails as a treasure that not every society has. It is a gift, not to be neglected.And so do democrats, liberals, and independents. From the day we are born we are taught to love our country. Something not exclusive to conservatives. "Conservatives don't hate government, they hate tyranny." I am a liberal progressive, and I hate tyranny as much as the next guy, but nothing has changed much since our founding. The president is still elected roughly the same way, and is exercising no power not given by the framers of the constitution. Our founding fathers gave us a gift of freedom, and they set up an excellent way to run this country. In the way they set it up, people get to be free, no one gets too much power, and everyone can chase the American Dream. It's a win-win. How has this freedom been taken from you? Is someone out there restricting you from pursuing your dreams? If you are financially successful, you are basically punished to serve those who are unsuccessful by taxation.Yet we are all family within our borders. Do we not share among our family? Or do we let our less successful brothers and sisters struggle with poverty and hunger, just so we can teach them to try harder? Our spending is out of control. We need a budget, as we are on a reckless path.Our government is not so reckless to not make as to not make a budget. In fact, here is this years...http://en.wikipedia.org... President Ronald Reagan siad, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction... It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States to be free."I am of the opinion that a human life has more value then idealistic freedom. Freedom can be won and lost, but happiness, laughter, family, and friends are all I need to make it to the end of the day.Sources---------http://www.e-ir.info... http://www.regentsprep.org...