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I believe we have reached a point in our survival as a national when past historical precedent is no longer valid.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
Very good.
Spot on. Do you have a ping list? If so, please add me. Thanks. :)
Good job!
Thanks, Diana. Will do.
The disconnect to reality is 180 degrees off top dead center..
The country is in bad sad shape..
WORSE thats only ONE of the massive problems..
big BUMP
What can we do?
I guess the first thing I would say is , remember,
remember we are not alone in this awareness.
It’s fortunate for most of us that we can still remember
an America as it once was, free and proud, not ashamed and cowed, distraught by the very success of everything our founders died to create. An Americaa unsullied by the guilt
of liberal apologists who seem to have no trouble equating
Constitutionally free government with dictatorial socialist
regimes, and infact preferring the latter!
The net is the difference today, our founders had to rely on broadsides and pamphlets to communicate their political ideas, we can now do so in minutes and with a readership far exceeding anything dreamed of in the past.
Just take Joanief as a case in point, not too many years ago she would have had to make this essay on a manual machine then laboriously make copies or find a printer to
run of as many as she could afford and then physically distribute them. Now her work is seen by perhaps hundreds of thousands in a matter of minutes, what Franklin and Paine wouldn’t have given for that ability eh.
I was stopped at lunch today by a man who saw the flag of
South Vietnam on my truck, he identified himself a having
been in the Navy assigned to an Army unit from 68 til 70
over there, I told him I had been there from 66 to 68 and we found out we both had been there during TET and then he asked me
“What is happening to this country? I have two sons who are entering Marine boot camp and my friends ask if I’m
not afraid for them? Well of course I am, but I reply
if not them , then who? “
I thanked him for his service and told him to be sure and be there when they graduate and about how my own father had shown up unexpectedly while my platoon was at the rifle range and the DI’s let me have an hour or two with him and how proud I was that he took the time and considerable effort (just try talking your way on to Parris Island and seeing YOUR son!) to see me.
He’s gone now but his pride in me, and my pride in his service during WW II. lives on, that’s what keeps us going
and doing what is right. In combat, researchers have found that most men don’t fight for ideology but for their own
pride within their own unit/group. I suspect a little of that is involved with those who continue to fill the ranks of our services.
I try to personally thank the young personel I run across for their service, and every time it’s they that say,
“But we’re in awe of what you guys did”,
I tell you it makes me SHINE.
As far as dealing with the continued “liberal” subversion
of our nation, I actually think we are making progress but
we must NOT be afraid of our own shadows and must CONFRONT
those elements that are responsible for it.
The power we have to get our ideas across is beyond our conception at the moment, but just look at the immigration
bill, it’s been stopped in it’s tracks at least temporarily
and mostly because like minded people have been able to communicate and get the word out to our representatives and
hold their feet to the fire.
We just have to continue and not be shy.
I’d say if someone called you an S.O.B and you DIDN’T punch him in the nose, that there WAS something wrong with you,
you had been neutered and didn’t even know it.
/rant
“enter elitist rule, stage left...”
elitist rule just didn’t enter. it insinuated itself through skillful propaganda and the line has been swallowed, hook, line and sinker by a large part of the populace.
the voters are going to give up their autonomy and wonder what happened to it as they intellectualize themselves into the gulag, attempting to emulate the “brilliant”, leftist/communist intellectuals who will “take care of them” and “save them” from the evil american system.
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.
Great essay. Basically, I think we’re screwed. I don’t see the Titanic turning anytime soon, not with maniacs in the pilot house.
ping
Thanks for the ping Brucifer and Thank you joanie-f.
Outstanding.
Applause.
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