Reestablishing the cornerstone principles that America was founded on is the key to slowing down the country’s deterioration and addressing the acrimony that is dividing the nation, Dr. Ben Carson said on Saturday. Carson, who served as the 17th Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), argues America can begin advancing toward the common good and away from socialist influences when solutions to the country’s pressing issues are guided by the principles of faith, liberty, community, and life. “We want to get back to focusing on what is good, and what is valuable, and what leads you upward rather than what leads you downward,” Carson told The Epoch Times’s Crossroads program at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida. He is also the founder of the American Cornerstone Institute, a non-profit that seeks to promote and preserve individual and religious liberty. “And, you know, we have history to tell us what is valuable …