I Want MY America Back!!

Amidst all of the liberal protests still taking place across America saying that this is not their America and Trump is not their president, there needs to be a protest saying ‘I want MY America back!!!’

My America goes back to a time when many politicians were still respected and placed the will of the people ahead of their personal agendas.

My America started every day in school with prayer and then standing, placing right hand over the heart and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, including the line ‘one nation under God’. Teachers were still respected and actually taught us to read, write, add, subtract and more. We were taught American history, flag etiquette and respect for others. If you didn’t learn, you were failed. If you misbehaved, you were spanked at school and in my case, again at home. It was common for most boys to have a pocket knife with them. In high school, it was also common to see a gun rack with one or two guns in the cab of pickup trucks parked on campus.

My America still respected authority figures. Dads, law enforcement officers and clergy. They were portrayed on television as respectful and smart men, instead of the bumbling idiots they are portrayed to be today.

My America had family friendly programming on television. Parents were not afraid of what their kids might watch on primetime programs. There was no swearing, no nudity, no strong sexual connotations and no rampant push of homosexuality.

My America was safe for kids and women. Kids played outside without worry of being kidnapped or abused. Women were safe walking around the neighborhoods and to the local stores. Kids played outside a lot more, getting more exercise and using their imagination. Playing cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians was common and not seen as actions that warranted school suspensions.

My America was a Christian nation with Christian values and morals. The Christian history and foundation of the nation was taught in schools. Anyone who blatantly blasphemed against God, Jesus, the Bible and Christians was not acceptable and often led to some type of discipline or societal condemnation.

My America was a nation that did not tolerate liars or officials who blatantly broke laws. My America also did not tolerate socialism, communism or related factions. They were understood to be direct threats to the American way of life.

My America was a nation that wasn’t obsessed with sex and nudity. Women dressed modestly and a revealed lower leg was considered provocative and exciting. There wasn’t nearly as many sex crimes against women or children because my America still maintained Christian values and respect for women and children.

My America was built on hard work and free enterprise. Most people wanted to work to not only provide for themselves and their families, but for the respect and self-esteem that went along with being a responsible adult. Being lazy was not rewarded like it is today.

My America was strong and proud. It was the envy of the world, not the scourge as it’s portrayed as today.

My America believed in freedom of speech and tolerance in that we knew there were others that disagreed with us, but it wasn’t grounds for protests or lawsuits. If you were offended, you got over it, and didn’t sue because of it.

That all changed with a few individuals who became intolerant of the views and beliefs of others and took their whining to the courts. God, Jesus, the Bible and Christianity was banned from public schools and government complexes. From that day on, MY AMERICA has been dying and decaying in the absence of God. It’s impossible to have a vacuum in an open system and when God was removed, worldly decadence and perversion filled the void. Today’s America is the result of half a century of Godlessness and the abandonment of America’s Christian values and foundation.

When I see all that is taking place these days in America, it makes want to weep and mourn for MY America. Every day I pray for MY America to come back to the moral greatness it used to be. I want MY America back!!!

What happened to "your" America???

What happened was a group of individuals who first called themselves Liberals (not to be confused with "classical liberalism"), and that group's ideology now dominates the current Progressive movement.

So-called "progressives," (those another writer calls "the protected class"), wherever they are found, portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they appear to be totally bereft of real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of Ameria's successful 200-year experiment in liberty.

Today's liberals, especially these so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia, Hollywood, and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:

"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)

Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.

Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.

If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.

Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.

In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a striking resemblance to the players who, though rejected by freedom-loving citizens, simply refuse to leave the stage, as if reality is outside their universe of thought.

For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:

"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."

Yes, the pseudointellectuals who just left the White House, are entrenched in the so-called "mainstream" media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."

By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.

America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.

It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).

Blasting it "all to smithereens" seemed to be the goal of the Far Left, which recently had control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government.

Such politicians rely on what they must believe to be the ignorance of the American people when they make such ridiculous claims. They have been outwitted, however, by an increasingly knowledgeable citizenry who are using the miracles of technology to study for themselves ancient and modern writings on the ideas of liberty versus those of tyranny. As Jefferson wisely observed:

"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."

Great post and true words of wisdom.

Especially liked: So-called "progressives," (those another writer calls "the protected class"), wherever they are found, portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they appear to be totally bereft of real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of America's successful 200-year experiment in liberty.

and Yes, the pseudointellectuals who just left the White House, are entrenched in the so-called "mainstream" media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."

By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.

Most of today's dems have absolutely no understanding of the greatness of our Founding and the Age of Enlightenment. A smattering of Marxism and rewritten American History has been their brainwashing. Thank God there has been a turn. Hopefully we can recover in time.

Thanks and Thank You for the book link and the Constitution link. A great site.

From the site: "The Constitution, it has been said, was “not formed upon abstraction,” but upon practicality. Its philosophy and principles, among others, incorporated these practical aspects:

Recognition that love of liberty is inherent in the human spirit.

Recognition of Creator-endowed, unalienable, individual rights.

Recognition that meaningful liberty is possible only in the company of order and justice. In the words of Burke: “Liberty must be limited to be possessed.”

Recognition that in order for a people to be free, they must be governed by fixed laws that apply alike to the governed and the government.

Recognition that the Creator has not preferred one person or group of persons as rulers over the others and that any government, in order to be just, must be from among the great body of the people and by their consent – that the people have a right to self-government.

Recognition of human weakness and the human tendency to abuse power; therefore, of the need to divide and to separate the power granted to government; to provide a system of checks and balances; and to make government accountable to people at frequent intervals.

Recognition that laws, to be valid, must have their basis and limit in natural law – that law which, as Cicero wrote, “is the highest reason, implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.”

Recognition of the need for structuring a government of laws, not of men, based on enduring principles and suitable not only to the age in which it is formed, but amendable to different circumstances and times, without sacrificing any of the three great concepts of Order, justice, or Liberty.

Recognition that the right to ownership of property is a right so compelling as to provide a primary reason for individuals to form a government for securing that right.

Recognition of the need for protecting the individual rights of each citizen, rich or poor, majority or minority, and of not allowing the coercive power of government to be used to do collectively that which the individual could not do without committing a crime.

Recognition of necessity for incentive and reward as impetus for achievement and growth.

Recognition of the need for a “Supreme Law of the land” a written constitution which, consistent with its idea of the sovereignty of the people, would provide its own prescribed amendment process, thereby circumventing any potential unconstitutional changes by any of the branches of government without the people’s consent."

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