Posted on 06/08/2007 2:59:53 PM PDT by joanie-f
6/08/2007 The Unraveling of America
During her two-century-plus history, America has faced many threats -- domestic, foreign, moral, military, economic …
The integrity, and unbridled courage, of the majority of her citizenry – whether they be in leadership positions, or ‘average Joes’ -- has always paved the way to victory over hardship and tragedy. And that same integrity and courage has always sought and succeeded in achieving the preservation of liberty.
I believe we have reached a point in our survival as a national when past historical precedent is no longer valid. I believe we have reached critical mass ...
... for four basic reasons:
For what I believe is the first time in our history, the majority of our ‘leadership’ in Washington bears more allegiance to an agenda, or a cadre of special interest groups, than it does to the liberty, safety and sovereignty of our republic and its people.
Take a good look at our ‘leaders’ in Washington. Do you trust the majority of them? I mean trust them to make the weighty decisions about the direction in which our republic is moving, and the momentous, no-turning-back decisions that will determine how, when and where we will face our enemies?
Surely we have experienced corruption, and self-serving or agenda-driven policymaking, on the federal level before. But never to this degree. And never by as many people in power who hold both our proud national heritage and our Constitution in utter disdain.
I believe that, for the first time in our history, the allegiance of the majority in power (both republicans and democrats) lies more in the amassing of personal or political power, the realization of left-leaning, globally-oriented political agendas, and the desire to please powerful special interest groups, than it does in honoring their oath of allegiance to this country and its people.
And the average American is simply too busy to pay much attention to the dangerously unprecedented erosion in the character, motives and allegiance of his leadership in Washington.
Just take a look at the past political and personal history of the current front-runner for the presidency in 2008. Hillary Clinton was an integral part of her husband’s eight-year administration. From all reliable accounts, she may as well have been co-president. She had intimate knowledge of all, and played a role in most, of the decisions made, and crimes committed, during her husband’s entire political career.
The accomplishments of William Jefferson Clinton’s two terms in office represented the most evil, treasonous, criminal era in American history. The repercussions of his (and her) criminality and treason have left permanent, potentially deadly, scars on this nation. They have sold our land and secrets to the highest bidder, armed our ideological enemies, and emboldened those who seek our annihilation.
A careful study of their crimes and their motives paints a picture of two megalomaniacal people who place no value on truth, who believe themselves to be above the law, and who disdain everything that America’s Founders held sacred.
I assume that most readers here are aware of at least the majority of the Clintons’ crimes/borderline crimes and treasonous activities. And yet the average American voter either (1) hasn’t cared enough to learn about them over the past decade, (2) knows about them and considers them irrelevant, or (3) has forgotten them.
As a result, the co-conspirator in all of the above may well become the leader of the free world, in the midst of the most perilous times the world has ever known, in eighteen months.
I believe that the reason for this sorry state of affairs rests in the fact that character and integrity no longer sit at the top of the list of leadership prerequisites in the minds of the American electorate. The desire to be ‘taken care of’ does.
Enter elitist rule (which bears no allegiance to our republic), stage left.
For what I believe is the first time in our history, our public education system is geared, more than it is not, toward indoctrination of America’s youth so as to raise succeeding generations who are (a) ignorant (and possibly even ashamed) of the glorious history of western civilization, (b) incapable of serious critical or analytical thought, (c) disdainful of earned prosperity and the pillars of capitalism, and (d) infused with beliefs about bogus environmental concerns, multicultural dogma, and phony ‘tolerance’ issues ... while at the same time virtually ignorant in the academic subjects upon which a free society must be based.
Our public education system has found itself incrementally hijacked by socialist/Marxist-leaning decision-makers over the past fifty-plus years. Children indoctrinated as mentioned above are much more likely to be submissive to government control, and much less likely to see America as historically unique, or deserving of pride …and defense.
The federal Department of Education (which conservative politicians have promised to abolish for decades), and the state education departments, continuously hand down more stringent left-leaning guidelines under which teachers must teach. America’s teachers are told, by leftist decision-makers who care little about the quality of local education, what and how to teach. And if the content of the what, or the method of the how, is something that a dedicated master teacher knows to be lies (as in the case of revisionist history and the politically-motivated theory of global warming, just to name two of dozens of bogus disciplines), that teacher risks the ruination of his career, should he refuse to teach his charges that which he knows to be untrue.
The NEA and the AFT are two of the most influential lobbying organizations in Washington, and, over the past five decades, their agenda has both eroded the quality of public education and the recognition and rewarding of teachers of merit, and increased the stranglehold that Washington has over decisions that should be made by American citizens at the local level. Children’s best interests, and their future as responsible, productive citizens, have taken a definite back seat to the promoting of a leftist agenda, and the entrenchment of lackluster teachers, bogus curricula, and mediocre teaching methods.
In addition to playing a primary role in the decline in public school education, the NEA (the association to which more than ninety percent of the teachers who teach our children belong) actively pursues non-educational leftist social agendas, and they financially support such groups as NOW, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and People for the American Way. Both directly and indirectly, financially and philosophically, the NEA supports abortion on demand, Planned Parenthood, federally-funded child care from birth through third grade, school-based healthcare and family planning services, gun control, environmentalism, the normalization of homosexuality, children’s access to all media and material including pornography, and an increased role of the UN in American affairs, especially as regards children.
Attend a local school board meeting someday and you will see just how concerned the average American parent is about this dangerous decline in the quality and direction of their child’s education. Unless an increase in taxes, or termination of a sports program, is on the agenda, you will be pretty safe in assuming that the number of parents in attendance is at or near zero.
And American colleges and universities, with few exceptions, have become nothing more than leftist indoctrination centers, with the study of the glorious history of western civilization now either banned or ‘revised’, and replaced by emphasis on neo-Marxist philosophy, reverence for ‘multiculturalism’, and a general disdain for anything American or capitalist – while, at the same time, ‘feel good’ courses have made large inroads in displacing in-depth study of the genuine arts and sciences.
The American voting populace is reaching critical mass. The complexion of the electorate is changing so dramatically that the ‘average American’ as you and I know him – the honest, hard-working American who comprehends the roots of our republican form of government and wants to preserve it at all costs -- will soon become a minority participant in all elections.
The machinations of those in office who seek power over their countrymen have seen to it that three elements of our society are growing exponentially, and the combination of those three will eventually dictate the direction in which we head as a nation: (a) the ever-increasing number of illegals (thousands of them invading this country every day), whose ‘rights’ are championed by those who know that there is power in numbers, and who are refusing to stem those numbers so as to increase their political power, (b) the ever-increasing proportion of the citizenry that has been purposely diverted from the truth by bread and circuses, and purposefully ‘dumbed down’ by the aforementioned educational establishment, and (c) the ever-increasing number of people who are dependent on the burgeoning entitlement/nanny state for their very existence.
All three groups portend ever-increasing ballot-box power for the political elite, and a deeper sink into the quicksand of tyranny by a burgeoning majority that bears no resemblance to the former, and soon-to-be-overshadowed, ‘heartland of America’. We are about to be displaced by millions of voters who have no idea what made America great … nor do they care. They simply want to reap the benefits of more than two centuries of selfless sacrifice freely and courageously offered by those who must now be looking down upon us through tears of grief over what we have done with our precious inheritance.
For the first time in our history, we are facing an external enemy with uniquely defined characteristics. It is not contained within a distinct border. It has many faces. It is far more vile, bloodthirsty, obsessed, and powerful than even the most educated and informed of us are able to comprehend.
And many of our leaders either do not recognize the historically (throughout the history of mankind) unprecedented threat that this enemy poses, or they choose to minimize that threat for reasons that can only be explained under the heading of ignorance, or treason.
Our ‘leaders’ more often than not re-define or bury the truth, when it threatens to interfere with their agenda or decrease what they see as deserved power ... even when standing face-to-face with this malevolence.
I daresay that, in America 2007, the majority in congress consider the Constitutionally-granted liberties of their constituents, the lives of their countrymen, the sovereignty of this republic, and the sanctity of the Constitution they have sworn to uphold and defend, negotiable … under the right circumstances.
None of the above four circumstances has ever existed before in the history of our republic. Not to the degree that they exist now. All four of them are expanding. And any one of them can potentially bring America down.
The frog is starting to sweat ... and wondering why.
~ joanie
Thanks!
Thanks for the kind words, gw.
Love that kind of logic.
It reminds me of a news segment I saw last week in which Obama was touting his plan for national healthcare. He claimed that those who are poor enough will receive their healthcare for free, and those who are paying preiums now will have their premiums reduced. The fact that a gargantuan tax increase will have to take place in order to pay for the disparity, and to employ the tens of thousands of new bureaucrats, somehow seemed to slip his mind.
Will check this out and circulate it.
Thanks so much for the links!
~ joanie
I am deeply saddened to hear about the recent radical ‘environmentalist’ decisions that have affected your Idaho ranchers and farmers. The ‘environmentalist’ movement is really nothing more than an incrementally increasing power grab that seeks to, and is succeeding in, (1) increasing the role of federal bureaucracy in every American’s life, (2) emasculating capitalism and free enterprise, and (3) cutting America ‘down to size’ so as to minimize our ability to compete with the rest of the world. And to think that Idaho ranchers and farmers (just as the farmers here in Lancaster County), the kind of people who have always formed the very backbone of this country, are now being consistently handcuffed by leftist-agenda-driven bureaucracy.
Here in Pennsylvania, the legislature recently floated a trial balloon in an effort to place water meters on private wells (one of which supplies our water in our home), in an effort to eventually be able to dictate the amount of water we private well owners use, and tax any amount above that – claiming that the water we draw from our own wells affects the communal water table that feeds the public water supply in other areas. Fortunately, that particular bill went down to defeat, but it’s only a matter of time before it garners enough supporters. I cannot see myself allowing a government worker on my land in order to place a water meter on my well. So let’s just say that I’m hoping this bill, or any version of it, doesn’t become law in my lifetime.
Your conversation with your co-worker is uplifting. Thank you for sharing the generalities.
An elderly friend of mine (who sounds somewhat similar in ‘salt of the earth’ character to your co-worker) — a gentleman who survived the Battle of the Bulge, and still walks with a limp as a result of injuries sustained there — is a staunch conservative. He has retired from work as an elected official in our township, but he still comes into my office regularly just to talk politics.
Several weeks ago, he brought up the subject of Al Gore’s move, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’.
Long story short, despite Bob’s abundantly conservative credentials, he was taken in by that movie (which spurred me to write an essay on global warming on my weblog, a copy of which I then gave to him, and he has now re-joined the conservative fold where ‘environmentalism’ is concerned. :)
My point is that even the most intelligent of us, and those who pride themselves on being well-informed, risk being taken in by the glib, practiced arguments of the left. And I am afraid that an ever-increasing number of people who genuinely possess conservative leanings are at least oocasionally abdicating their responsibility to expend the time and effort to ferret out the truth, and, as a result, are falling victim to cleverly-disguised lies that serve no purpose but to transform them into useful idiots.
Truth be told, I know many people, both ‘real life’ and internet, who call themselves patriots and conservatives. And yet I can count on the fingers of two hands the number of those who really understand the awful, no-turning-back precipice at which we are standing, will not soft-pedal the dangers, and refuse to wear rose-colored glasses.
Your eyesight is 20/20, your glasses are clear, and yet your optimism, as always, is much greater than mine. His will -- not our efforts or our enemy’s hatred -- will prove to be the final determiner of the fate of our republic. And I pray daily that you are a more accurate predictor of His will than I.
Continued best wishes to you and yours, Jeff, during these troubling times … and thank you, as always, for your unfailing dedication to restoring our republic to its former greatness.
~ joanie
This may indeed be coming to an end. We are certainly at a critical juncture.
"Many's the time I've been mistaken
And many times abused
And I've often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
Oh, but I'm alright, I'm alright
I'm just weary to my bones
Still, it's hard to be bright and bon vivant
So far away from home
So far away from home
I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
But it's alright, it's alright
For we've lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road we're travelling on
I can't help but wonder what's gone wrong,
I can't help it, I wonder what's gone wrong.
And I dreamed I was flyin'
I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
Looking back down at me
Smiling assuredly
And I dreamed I was flyin'
And high up above my eyes
Could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea,
And I dreamed I was flyin'...
Oh we come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the Ages' most uncertain hour
And sing an American tune
But it's alright, it's alright
You can't be forever blessed
Still tomorrow's gonna be another workin' day
And I'm tryin' to get some rest,
That's all I'm tryin', is to get some rest."
Written back about 1973 by Paul Simon. Yes, he's probably a liberal, but in these lines, he said more than he knew.
The Ages' most uncertain hour, indeed.
- John
VOTE, smile, nod your head, screw them every chance you have, smile, ...!
IMO, even if we left the 17th intact and kept the capitol in D.C., just tripling the size of the House would solve a lot of our woes.
I just don't understand why folks can't see that we're so under repersented.
Unfortunately, I'm not so sure.
It is unlikely, IMO, that we will go down without a fight. The death grip of the "Republicans" and the "Democrats", as the two faces of the ruling elite, on our elections must be ended.
Texas.
If you were the average American, Bill Clinton would never have been president, or if he had been elected ONCE, he and Hillary would have gone to jail soon thereafter for life.
Ping for later reading.
I was think Idaho or Alaska. : )
Yes, but I’m in Texas, so it has to be Texas. ;-)
Did you know the name of Iwo Jima has been changed?
Are you going to change your handle?
I keep enough gas in my motorhome to go 700 miles in one direction. Maybe I should figure out how far away is Texas.
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