Posted on 10/27/2008 8:44:10 AM PDT by joanie-f
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, in ‘Democracy in America’:
[The principle of equality prepares men for government that] covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic character cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent and guided … Such a power … stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd ...
One week and one day from today it appears that the people of America may elect Barack Hussein Obama President of the United States and leader of the free world. They may also be electing to the Senate and the House of Representatives a majority – perhaps even a filibuster-proof majority – of democrats from Obama’s own party.
Congress’s approval rating sits at nine percent, and yet the voters will be voting for ‘more of the same’. Why? Because their particular senator and/or congressman brings home the local bacon. Yet they resent the other 530+ ‘leaders’ who sit on the Hill and do exactly the same for their respective constituencies.
Such is the mindset of the citizenry of America 2008: What’s in it for me? and Don’t bother me with the particulars.
In past elections, whatever the make-up of the ‘leadership’ in Washington, and whatever the make-up of those who placed them in office, there was always reason for hope that America would rise above mistakes made, or errors in judgment ... next time ‘round.
I do not believe such is the case this time. An Obama election, and a democrat majority in congress, will ensure a permanent left lock on power for the remainder of America's existence. They have seen to it, by directing a left-leaning path for the past fifty years. We are on the brink of closing the door behind us, making impossible any return to conservative leadership.
Barack Obama is an inexperienced 'leader', with no record of meaningful accomplishments, and dangerous delusions of grandeur -- a self-serving ideologue whose mentors and associates embrace anything but what is best for America.
Many of them serve a Marxist god.
Most of them speak more ill of, than praise for, our republic.
Most of them despise the capitalist system and the free market.
Some of them despise the white race.
Most of them place little value on human life – those born, and those as yet unborn -- except to the degree that it can advance their ideology.
Most of them hold our Constitution in utter disdain and seek to declare its irrelevance with every stroke of their arrogant pens.
Most of them believe themselves to be members of a chosen elite, who possess the right to author oppressive laws that apply to the common man, but from which they are exempt.
Most of them believe that the right to own personal property, and the right to save the fruits of one’s labor, are gifts bestowed by the state, and they can freely be taken away, or redistributed, at the whim of the ruling class.
Most of them do not believe in the citizen’s right to defend himself.
Most of them believe that success is not achieved through hard work and personal industry, but rather through a government-authored and enforced state of ‘equality’.
Most of them believe that personal responsibility is an intolerant concept, and that we all must share the negative consequences of, and pay the price for, the foolish, frivolous, or self-serving actions of others.
Most of them believe that our children are wards of the state, and that parents must look to the state for child-rearing guidance, or answer to the courts.
Most of them believe in a borderless world in which the concepts of national identity, national sovereignty, and national pride are irrelevant.
Most of them consider a lie, or the breaking of a law, even more worthwhile than the truth, or obedience to law, if the end suits their purposes.
Most of them hold that a belief in God, and Biblical morality, serve merely as a roadblock on the pathway to self-realization.
What have these leftist ‘leaders’ – in politics, academia, and the media -- achieved over the past few decades, which will ensure their political pre-eminence, effectively rendering their power coalitions omnipotent, from this time forward?
The power of special interests has expanded to the point where the power of the people pales in comparison. The recent actions taken by both the administration and congress in an effort to confront the looming financial meltdown were taken (1) in opposition to overwhelming public sentiment, and (2) in order to place the gargantuan bill, aimed at least in part to bail out ‘friends of congress’, on the shoulders of the American citizen (and his children). And the left played an enormous role in both the cause of the meltdown, and its proposed ‘solutions’.
Like the bailout legislation, countless other laws are passed each year (the majority of them, I suspect), not with the benefit of the American people in mind, but with either the furtherance of a political agenda, or ‘payback for political favors done’, as their intent.
America is being overrun with illegal invaders crossing our southern borders. Our ‘leadership’ in Washington is doing nothing about the invasion. Our mainstream media is keeping a tight lid on the rising cost of that invasion – ‘cost’ in terms of taxpayer dollars, violence on the streets of our cities, frequent injuries and deaths incurred by our Border Patrol agents, and the infiltration every year into our society of millions of people who bear no allegiance to our republic, a sub-group of which seeks to annex a portion of our nation for themselves. They are dramatically altering the very fabric of our society. And our ‘leaders’ continue to pander to them, at our expense. Illegal aliens cannot vote (yet), but their American-born offspring can. And these children will vote for the party that keeps the entitlement pipeline flowing.
Much of the above, and much more, has been the result of the decades-long infiltration of heavy-handed, left-leaning ideology into our schools, our media, and our ‘leadership’ in Washington.
But there have always been those who sought to keep our left-ward movement from becoming an unstoppable march: (1) There were patriots in congress who sought to keep the socialists in check; (2) There were media decision-makers intent on retaining a sense of fairness in their reporting; (3) And, above all, there were a majority of the citizenry who saw it as their civic duty to be well-informed, to know the real backgrounds and agendas of the candidates, and to weigh those considerations against the most powerful one: what is best for America (as defined by the Constitution).
None of the above three conditions exist anymore -- not to the degree that they must, in order to succeed in holding back the march toward the total tyranny of the left.
If Barack Obama ascends to the presidency, the chipping away at our republic's foundations represented by all of the above conditions will increase ... in both intensity and speed. And our enemies will be emboldened because a novice (and an anti-American novice at that) will be serving as America's Commander-in-Chief.
Americans want change. And change they will get. It will not necessarily be a change in direction, but a change in the speed with which we achieve the destination so carefully laid out by our ruling elite. They have been patiently working for decades, but their patience is wearing thin, and their foot is on the accelerator. We have already witnessed the shifting of gears, in our leadership's lightning-fast unconstitutional response to their self-created economic meltdown.
Those in power will become ever more arrogant about their desires to achieve a United Socialist States of America. The socialist steamroller will be moving us toward the dark abyss at break-neck speed, and standing in its way will prove hazardous to your health.
Hang on. We’re about to embark on a dizzying national nightmare.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
Eight days and counting ... :(
Another great article joanie ... thanks for posting! ;o)
How is it ... America is called a democracy when in fact we are a Republic with democratic elections. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. The younger people must not know this .
Shame on all of us for not teaching everyone around us in our arena the truth of our form of government.
We have paid no attention for so long ... we have allowed the evil of this world to take over, without a revolution are anything.
Fascinating — but will not been seen by all but a handful of voters. Thanks for the valuable link.
~ joanie
Thanks for the kind words, LV.
~ joanie
Great essay joanie-f! Thanks for writing/posting. Very good link (saw it before). Thanks.
Thanks for the excellent insights, geologist.
These days it's even hard to find a major college campus where Western Civilization is taught. The space where that noble course once stood has been filled with all manner of 'multicultural studies' curricula.
We're literally writing our own epitaph.
~ joanie
When the Revolution begins, target #1 = U.S. Capitol.
BTW, that video is now front and center on my website. I don't care if I lose customers over it. I don't need their business that badly. Well, strike that. I do need the business, but I just can't bring myself to grovel and stay silent.
Those who were chanting "We want pie! We want pie!" at a recent Obamunist rally are starting to sound like the ignorant and bloodthirsty masses of the 1789 French Revolution. Does anyone really know what horrors that unleashed? There's a signpost as to what's coming.
If we are to preserve our Republic, our lives and our freedom - fell deeds await.
False prophets belong to the world. So they speak from the world’s point of view. The world listens to them. We belong to God. And those who know God listen to us. But those who don’t belong to God don’t listen to us. That’s how we can tell the difference between the Spirit of truth and the spirit of lies.
‘The One’ is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want
in Party rice paddies he let’s me repent.
God bless you, Mr. D.!
~ joanie
That is one of the most moving and accurate portrayals of what is going on in the United States that I have ever read. Thank you so much for posting that.
Amen to that.
Both sad and funny at the same time. (The truth hurts.)
~ joanie
Plus, I got the meter right. ;O)
Well, that certainly cheers me up. (sarc)
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