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I believe we have reached a point in our survival as a national when past historical precedent is no longer valid.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
Where do we meet when it all falls apart?
The author is decribing the decay of the country and you're making comparisons. Your comment is completely irrelevant.
Sadly, we appear to lack both.
Excellent essay.
Good read. Thank you.
Many of those who believe they're receiving prophetic word from God say Colorado. I've been collecting contemporary prophecy off the web for years, and there is something of a consensus that it's somewhere along the front range. Years ago, they were saying they'd been sent dreams and visions of a war breaking out in the middle of the country, instigated by brown skinned people. This was well before any knowledge of an inland "port" at Kansas City could have been possible. They also say they've received warning from God for Christians not to participate in the slaughter. It's all falling into place, and it disturbs me to no end.
Make of it what you will; it's been laughed at and laughed off before, and will again, I'm sure. Are these people for real? They appear to believe so. Time will tell.
Kudos to your thoughts joanie-f. Our political class in many ways have forgotten what is like to be citizens. Principles bend couched in terms like ‘compromise’ meaning new laws are created that no one likes. Old laws are not enforced and black robed potentates on the bench bend the law to suit their own personal picadillos.
In the end the politicians forget from whence America came from. We were born of Patriots who believed strongly in limited government, not at all like the ‘sunshine’ patriots of today who just love spending Americans money like it is their own to ever expand the reach of government into peoples daily lives. Enough is enough, it is time to drastically cut the federal feeding trough and get back to the basics of promoting the rule of law as the founders intended as enshrined in our Constitution.
The largely hispanic invasion forces has at its disposal America’s fifth column residing in the White House, the Congress and at every cabinet level requiring ever vigilante citizen resistance.
On June 1 2001 the White House extended and invitation to the Western Growers Association in appreciation of their efforts in support of the “immigration bill”. In other words GWB acknowledged their buying power in the legislative market.
We now have to commit ourselves to stay informed about the continued efforts by this Fifth column to undermine the sovereignty of this republic.
Everyone needs to check their Senator’s and Congressman’s PR releases and schedule on a daily basis to see who can demand their attention and obedience. We, in each state need to see who is attaching riders that piece meal the components of this abomination to other bills.
And come the primaries, the electorate must be ruthless in pruning these fifth columnists from both parties. Let’s not be swayed by their cheap excuses. Their actions spoke louder than their PR effforts.
Send the SOBs home while we still can.
To be inactive at now is to assist them in laying a powder trail to an conflagration that will make CW-I seem like a playpen spat.
I always have time to read your well written and thoughtful essays, and once again you have put an eloquent finger on what ails our Great Republic. Thank You!
Ten++..one of your best...
Yes, sadly I am afraid there is nothing to disagree with in this essay, although I wish there were.
America is unique in history for preserving the freedoms of her citizens for such a long time. Two hundred and thirty years may not seem like a long time, but in fact there is not a single modern government anywhere in the west that has lasted as long, without revolutions and basic changes in their constitutions. There is not a single government with so many freedoms, for such a long time, although some of the other Anglosphere nations come close to it—partly by common inheritance of laws and culture, partly by imitation of America.
This may indeed be coming to an end. We are certainly at a critical juncture.
There once was a time when America's leadership represented 'the best' that was to be found among the populace. And the term 'public servant' had real meaning.
Now, 'the best' are to be found among the general populace, and it's fallen on our shoulders to (at least attempt) to keep our leaders in line.
Good comments. Thanks.
Thanks, tet.
wow. what a wonderful piece.
one can never know warmth until he’s experienced cold, never know sweetness unless he’s tasted of bitterness, and never know freedom unless he’s tasted of tyranny.
maybe there has to be a taste of tyranny before freedom can be appreciated.
Fantastic, very well written. With what’s going on in this country, I do believe that Satan is alive and well, and has either served as President, or is about to, or both........
Thanks; however, I always thought I was the average American.
Again....an excellent essay of what has sadly happened to our nation.
God bless you joanie~f...
Amen.
Along the same lines, I recently received the following from a poster on another message board. I think he has it right, too:
As a vet whose family tradition (father and grandfather career Army officers, and now two children serving), I share your heartbreak over what has become of our political system and government. The only place you'll find "selfless service" as a credo in government today is in the military. Imagine what our country could be were all our leaders in government to practice "selfless service to the nation" and to require it of all others, with dismissal as the immediate sanction for noncompliance.
Thanks for the kind words, SJ.
B4L8r
Bears constant, drumbeat repeating.
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