As Americans who love our country, it is difficult to disengage from the mean-spirited, constantly vicious, personal, and negative attacks the current political environment promotes. It is even harder to ignore the constant pettiness of the news media and, with few exceptions, the shallow agendas of the reporting community. However, the viciousness and negativity of attack politics is the opposite of what the American people want. …We have been successful and powerful for several generations, so it is easy to forget that our success was based on identifying, analyzing, and solving real problems. America was fortunate in key moments by having leaders who could look beyond the next headline, overlook partisanship and personality conflict, and focus on what really mattered. [Gingrich closed his article by identifying 11 problem areas, which he called, serious realities; every voter ought to be aware of those realities.]
