I would never call myself “old,” but let’s just say that I have been around a while. In fact, I have been around long enough to see progress made, and long enough to know that we, as a society, have not come nearly far enough in meeting the challenges we face. We have, with regard to almost all issues, made incremental improvements, which should be celebrated, and have failed miserably at making significant changes.

Throughout American history, we have struggled with issues such as taxation (a cause of the American Revolution not…