We have become the Benighted States of America. Here is our new flag:
Posted on 10/10/2013 11:12:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
What has happened to our country?
We have a president who seems unwilling to declare that we are the greatest nation on earth. We have a Senate run by the most spineless little weasel anyone could ever imagine. Our House of Representatives is reminiscent of the character from Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" who holds a gun to himself claiming he is held hostage to befuddle local dullards.
We have been told that we as a nation are borrowers, beggars and thieves. Every single day we are reminded that one race allegedly hates another. Plain terrorists wishing to wage their personal version of Islamic jihad are gingerly described as "persons of interest" or "mentally disturbed," but rarely described, with only the facts borne for all to see, as what they truly are ... enemies of our nation. We spend our time pitting American against American. Whether it be their right to marry, right to work, or right to die, we fight and battle endlessly.
We watch the vapid Kardashians or the pitiful Honey Boo Boo and call it entertainment. We remember Watergate like it was yesterday but forget World War II and treat those who fought in and survived Vietnam as pitiful misfits who should be hidden in a backroom like the crazy uncle in a proud but clueless family.
In 1995 I was told that America had lost all civility and sense when Newt Gingrich and his fellow Republicans shut down the government. But in 1995 Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton talked. They negotiated. Sure there were times when one or the other played the drama card. Newt allegedly stormed off Air Force One mad that he had been seated in the steerage section. The fact was that his seating arrangement had nothing to do with his show of anger over then-President Clinton's decision not to discuss the status of the government en route back from a great man's funeral.
But even that myth did not keep Clinton from ultimately negotiating. What ensued was an agreement to balance budgets and the first and only modern day consecutive run of such an accomplishment. Two leaders led.
We have become a nation that honors ignorance. We would prefer to see how the broke as hell, worthless, ignorant and flashy "Real Wives" of whatever live their lives versus learning how our economy works or taking a position on an issue that might truly matter to future generations.
Oh yes, we are great at moralizing and castigating. But when it comes to creating dreams, futures, and a united sense of worth, we are lost.
Our national news media sucks. They lead us around like little ducklings, feeding us the headlines they want, burying leads and posturing their own point of view. The day that Al Sharpton became an accepted daily part of the news media was the day they could finally put a fork in it as a profession.
Today we have the most liberal, most myopic and least qualified president in modern American history. And he faces a clownish collection of half-wits and losers who make up much of Congress. If you can't cut it in real life, for goodness sakes run for office. It is the home now for every egotistical nitwit who could never earn a real living, or got tired of doing so, in America.
And then there are the voters. Most can't name their congressmen, much less their local elected officials. The extreme right-wingers want to tear everything down and the extreme left-wingers want to hand everything out. And they all want to pass a law that regulates every part of our lives.
I recently viewed a likely-to-be-ignored new movie "Parkland," which depicts the events surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. I read reviews by critics panning the film. They had no clue what they were watching. With the exception of the occasional historical slip, the movie is a brilliant "in your face" and startling production.
It reminded me of a time when Americans, torn apart by issues of the day, still knew a tragedy when they saw it. Now we simply cry in our coffee over faux crises and find ways to divide ourselves.
Our history provides true moments of crises. There was a real Civil War in which real Republicans provided the leadership to free enslaved black men and women. There was a real World War in which the Nazi's practiced not only terror, but took entire nations and ethnic groups as hostages and victims.
We've had real problems in the past, but little things like determination and a realization that we were the greatest nation in the history of modern civilization overcame them.
We need our leaders, our media, and our public to rise above the small stuff. We need to put the "United" back in the United States of America. And we need to do it quickly.
It won't happen until we clean house in DC!
Hold the line Republicans. keep the useless government shut down.
the way to limit government is to permanently cut their funding. the only tax allowed by any branch of government shall be a 10% sales tax divided by federal, state and local and that's it. Federal 5%, state 3% , local 2%:. no income tax, no property taxes ever. no government regulations against businesses.
Better yet, making it "The United States IN America" like our founding father's original intent.
Hear, hear!
Indeed. 50 sovereign states with a federal government in charge of dealing with foreign entities and any disputes between states that they can’t work out themselves.
the premise is flawed
Many do not want to be united. Many want the northeast, neo Europa to be purged.
The “Real Wives of Leviathan” demand redistributive justice, suckahs!
Gimmedat!
Exactly...We’ve never been “United”....This country is about being free, not being part of the lowest common denominator.
What happened?
Easy: birth control. And all of its trappings; abortion; Destruction of the family and more
Aw heck, just change the name already! From U.S.A. to S.A., standing for Single America, Socialist America, Solidarity America or what have you. The idea of independent states was squashed about a hundred years ago when power was taken from individual states. We need a civil war to put things straight again.
There will be no United in America until conservatives sweep away a hundred years of anti-American progressivism from our government.
Remember the last Democrat convention, where they rejected God three times?
How the Democrat party is a “de facto” if not “de jure” member of the Socialist International, and organization of political parties who are openly opposed to the existence of their own nations and seek a one world government? That seek unlimited immigration to swamp their own nations with foreigners, on condition they vote for the socialists?
How “united” can the United States be with people who despise our nation, our flag, our religious faiths, our system of government, and our constitution?
How “united” can the United States be with people who despise our foreign friends and embrace our foreign enemies?
How “united” can the United States be with people who seek to destroy our nation economically by creating vast and nonsensical debt, solely for the purpose of doing so?
It weakens us
Bump
What is needed is to put the STATES back into the United States of America.
We have become the Benighted States of America. Here is our new flag:
I don’t believe the “United” States will ever be united again. Yes this country will continue to nominally exist as a 50-state entity for a while, but I don’t see how it survives intact for more than a couple more decades. I’d be very surprised if it isn’t divided up at least three ways by 2030.
We began losing our sense of nationality back in the 1960s when everything from the 1965 Immigration Act, to the Great Society, and of course the Vietnam war began the process of severing it along ideological lines.
dc and the courts, and the rest of the country.
I think we should start referring to ourselves as “these” united states way more often to remind people exactly what this nation really consists of.
I assume that the author does not know that class conflict is the Marxist’s primary tool of revolution. The Marxists want conflict and actively promote it.
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