I have always believed in America, in the American promise. That we have, more or less, really free elections and that, more or less, elections matter. That pretty much ended about eight years ago.
I saw a George Carlin comedy sketch about “the system” where he was saying we’re all just sheeple and we’re all kept in line by the government and they don’t want us to be educated.
For the first time in my life, Carlin began to sound like he was talking sense.
2008 was a watershed for me as well.
After watching the GOP nominate the author of the 2 previous amnesty attempts, I knew the nominating process was rigged.
When everyone in the media and political office went after people who knew what natural born citizen meant as if they were lunatics, I knew we were gone as a country.
Both parties wanted the natural born citizen requirement eliminated.
The up and comers of the GOP, Cruz, Rubio, Jindal, and Haley were all born of foreign national parents with foreign national allegiances and ineligible.
A review of the "progressives'" absolute takeover of every entity of what is called the American "education system," from the federal, state and local government bureaucracies, including teacher training institutions, "certification" process, the teachers' unions, with their legislative agenda, state DPI and legislative leaders, and now control of the curriculum publishing companies, etc., etc.,--all of these things lead one to believe that Carlin's early observation was spot on.
As a matter of fact, to paraphrase the "Nation at Risk" report published decades ago, an enemy of America could not have devised a better plan for harming us than these forces described above have inflicted upon the nation's youth over several decades now, "dumbing them down," keeping them unknowledgeable, uneducated and vulnerable, and they constitute much of the group known as "the millennials" today.
"It is necessary, then, in order to seize authority in a republic and imprint an evil form upon it, to find that the social fabric has broken down over time, and that little by little and from generation to generation, it has been thrown into disorder; this will come about by necessity, when it is not often renewed by good examples or by new laws to bring it back to its beginnings." Niccolo Machiavelli circa 1519, Discourses on Livy.