Now, for some personal context from someone who’s ancestor first arrived here in 1635. Dont worry, Im not going that far back. Lets start in 1948, the year I was born. Average family of four paid 2% in income tax. The greatest generation ever had just returned from massively defeating consummate evil and gone to work. The youngsters born to them (boomers) were raised by and around men with a heroic ethic who never spoke of heroism. The media was all about how great our country was. We became tearful at patriotic parades, we prayed and pledged to the flag first thing every day at school. We admired the good guys, success was a badge of merit. Superman (“truth, justice and the American Way”), The Lone Ranger (the good guy in the white hat) and Audie Murphy (hero from ww2) set the tone and the standard for young boys like me to aspire to in man hood. Responsible self reliance was the basic moral code. In public high school civics classes we learned that free enterprise capitalism was responsible for more freedom for more people than any other system that had ever been and that communism was responsible for more tyranny and suffering (the murder of hundreds of millions) than any system that had ever been. I remember wondering (early sixties) “is this all just propaganda” ? Probably. However, it had formed stable families, with hope from one generation to the next that things would continue to improve with enough hard work and imagination as had been the case since our founding.
Then,,Madeline Murray Ohare. Thats the name I remember being most responsible for removing prayer from schools (dont know if its justice that she ended up chopped in little pieces and buried on her ranch but Im pleased knowing it).
Then, a lot of my generation began self righteously shouting “dont put your values on me !!” as we turned the culture from one focused on responsibilities (ask not what your country can do for you) to “rights” (I want it all and i want it now and II want you to pay for it) The ever funny Dave Barry mused we were just refusing to clean our rooms.
The thing is, the values that were removed, one by one, were the foundations upon which our form of government rests, Paraphrasing Washington “without morals and ethics freedom becomes license and license becomes licentiousness” (ok some of that is me concluding what he meant when he said we rely on each other to be moral and ethical in order for our system to work)
So, while we boomers engaged in the politically correct abandonment of basic truth so as not to “put our values on others”, those others began to systematically, methodically and cynically put their values on the rest of us. In so doing they used the tactics of multiculturalism to convert the world’s “melting pot” into a sorting bin, stealing the american dream from those who need it most. In their ceaseless quest for power they sought (recently revealed by the one I will not name’s campaign chair) an “ill informed, compliant” population they could rely on for the votes they needed to assume and consolidate power in perpetuity. The further along the line they got the more brazen and “in your face” have their tactics become.
It’s irrefutable that these policies and procedures have destroyed the black family in America over the past 50 years as the crime infested, beyond all hope ghettos have been the modern slave quarters run by democrats almost exclusively. Now, they are after the rest of us by shaping a culture in which Success thru honest hard work is a sin. Faith, morals and ethics are a joke soon to be rendered as criminal “hate crimes”. No innocent is above prosecution and no criminal is worthy of punishment. So, this is where the thinking and tactics of the left have gotten us. Finally, for the first time in our history, there is little hope that the next generation will match, let alone surpass, the life style and accomplishments of this one. Hope reversed.
No one individual or group of individuals stands more completely for this “progress” than the proven liar and her cohorts in the government and press. This is no longer speculation or conspiracy theory. Their own words betray them as having betrayed ALL of us for decades.
You are free to be wrong by concluding i am wrong. But, should she win, it will be the end of the Country i was born and raised in.
Some of you may think thats a good thing. I guarantee you, your grandkids will disagree.
I have to be honest, if “values” are only or even chiefly being promulgated by a worldly government, we are already in a sunk position.
True consensus came from honoring God.
I believe Donald is riding on a larger divine wind which may well reverse the lack of consensus about more than just values, but other spiritual things as well. God brings such change when a people is ready for it, and only He has the X-ray eyes needed to perceive such seasons.
You are free to be wrong by concluding i am wrong. But, should she win, it will be the end of the Country i was born and raised in.
Spot-on. Well stated.
Like you, I was born in a free country (the United States, in my case the early 1960s). Were I to die today, I'd die in an oligarchy/soft tyranny (the US, in the here and now). If Hillary, by hook or by crook, is dragged across the finish line and takes the oath of office in January, then no matter when I die it will not be in a free country: born free, destined to die in many ways a de facto slave to the State.
I don't have the resources to emigrate to a more free spot on the globe. If Trump doesn't win then my fate, like that of so many millions of others, is sealed.
You nailed it! I was born in 1947 and what you say is so true!