3 Principals that All Americans can use that Nelson Mandela used  Part 2 Episode 32

<p><strong><em>In</em> <em>this episode Joanne Williams, LCSW discusses with</em></strong> Simon Chadwick a South African born, British educated, American citizen. Grew up as the son of a prominent anti-apartheid activist, lived in two totalitarian societies so African and Kenya and sees it happening in the USA. He has a Career as CEO in Italy, UK and USA. Owner of a firm of management consultants. Intensely interested in and concerned about politics and society in modern-day America.</p> <p>His book ‘For the People:  A Citizen’s Manifesto to Shaping Our Nation’s Future’  A guide to start a conversation to heal American divisions.</p> <p>So today we focus: Solutions for building a safer more secure society to reduce our common anx.  While creating a shared reality that we all want to live by.</p> <p><strong>Summary of today Podcast: </strong></p> <ol> <li>The basic contract that exists in a democracy that we hold dear that we may have forgotten we do have to work from</li> <li>How fragile this contract can be when authoritarianism takes hold</li> <li>How authoritarian rulers all have a psychopathology that drives their need to be right and a mindset that is a challenge to their very core self that needs to be protected at all costs.</li> <li>How fear can be used to divide us, but security unites us.</li> </ol> <p><strong>Question for today is? How to open up conversations between democrats and Republicans and Americans to have a common reality. American Tribes and same values</strong></p> <p>Simon Chadwick shared his life story of a Living in So. Africa, where his father was clergy, jailed and exiled for working with Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu for apartheid justice.</p> <p>Simon wrote his book as a guide to not allow what happened in South Africa happen in America, as he saw the red flags of authoritarian rise since 2015.</p> <p>In  a democratic society, there is a social contract between government and electors: government provides a framework of security in return for payment of taxes and observance of rea