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I believe we have reached a point in our survival as a national when past historical precedent is no longer valid.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
I remember the gloom and doom prognistications in 1980 when in stepped a man named Ronald Reagan who told us our BEST times were AHEAD of us.
Yeah, well they were saying about the same thing in 1930 in the middle of the Great Depression. Also around 1968. Also around 1861. Oh, and 1980 too. Plus lets not forget the Panic of 1893. And the 1896 election. Oh and the aftermath of the 1876 contested election. Etc., etc.. The common thread among all was how UNIQUE our was the "dire threat" of our particular time.
If you really think those years that you mentioned were as dangerous and corrupt as this one your vision isn’t anywhere near 20/20. Ridiculous.
Ping to possibly the best vanity I’ve ever read in my 8 years on FR.
Yeah, silly of me to think a Civil War in America was worse than our current times. My "apologies."
Although it was a black era, we survived the civil war.
These gloom and doom End of Times threads are tedious. Also they lack much in the way of historical perspective. Didn't like my Civil War comparison? Okay, in the Great Depression there was massive unemployment and many people didn't know where their next meal was coming from. Banks had to close and there was massive migrations (Okies) in search of work. But lets forget all that inconvenient history and narcissistally claim that we are SPECIAL and this is truly the WORST of times (note: in early autumn 1781 it appeared the American Revolution was a hopeless cause and we would cease as a independent nation). And I won't even go into the Whiskey Rebellion when things appeared so dire at the time that PRESIDENT George Washington had to personally lead the army to supress that uprising.
CLUCK! CLUCK! THE SKY IS FALLING!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!!! CLUCK! CLUCK!
And oh, by the way, they flew three commercial airliners into American building a couple of years ago.
And many of our leaders in DC, including the probable Democratic nominee, are soft-pedaling the threat they pose to us.
Compare that threat to any of the ones you believe are equivalent.
You've resorted to ridicule. One of my cardinal rules is to bow out of "debate" at that point. So long.
Not a very strong religion supported by deep beliefs. Before those 9-11 hijackers flew into the towers, they blew their chances for 40 virgins in paradise by going to Vegas strip clubs for lap dances. The fact is that there is actually LITTLE real belief in Islam since almost every Muslim I see in America head straight for the bars, especially the Saudis. I once knew an Iranian Muslim guy named Hassan who told me to call him "Steve" since that was his nightclub name. I eventually asked him if most folks from his part of the world actually believed in the crap they were spouting and he just smiled since it was obvious he thought it was BS.
You want a religion that really did have fanatic believers? Shintoism. It was what made the Pacific war so bloody since the Japanese truly believed they were dying for their emperor. Even Osama Bin Laden dressed like a rich yuppie in Britain and called himself "Sammie" until he cyncially positioned himself as some sort of religious warrior.
Sorry, I just don't believe we are somehow in the most UNIQUE of times leading to doom and gloom. Just the year 1968 alone appeared more dire than now with the Tet offensive, Khe Sanh, street riots, assassinations, etc..
Sorry to disturb the D&G fantasy here.
I plead GUILTY! Since pointing out the obviously ridiculous could be classified as ridicule.
Joanie also is involved and fighting for her country. She is involved locally, and she is involved with others as events arise ona more regional and even national basis trying to make a difference even as she does toll the bell.
She has every right to raise the warning voce and I am glad she does. One price of keeping our liberty and avoiding the worst scenarios is to be eternally vigilant...and Joanie is.
Now, I also believe, like you, that this nation has faced very difficult times in the past and has ultimately found the will and fortitude to overcome it...mainly be being faithful to the foundational principles upon which our liberties and way of life were founded and then fighting with a passion to preserve them.
There are ample seeds of that all around us today. Indeed, it is also a long tradition in our nation dating back to the Revolutionary War, when things also looked so dire...then they crossed the Delaware. That is the type of thing I meant from my post #148:
Despite the painful and distressing events of the day. Despite politicians who are blatantly leading our nation to destruction. Despite so many of our own people who have become hooked on entitlements, who are so eager to get what they can from their hard working neighbors and countrymen...despite so many who have been educated to hate our nation and what it stands for...still there is reason to hope.
In the 1980s, most thought that we were on the brink...and under Carter we were.
But then a miracle occurred. In the midst of the dominance of the democratic party in the political areana...in the midst of the push for cultural, sexualy, moral, and foreign policy malais...Ronald Regan came on the scene. And the people elected and chose him overwhelmingly...and time was purchased, a measure of our greatness was retained and we moved on.
Although he has failed in so many critical areas...in 2000 and in 2004, at a time when again the forces of abject betrayal and treachory are working from within to destroy us...this nation picked Bush over Gore and then over Kerry. it was a near thing...and with either of those two things would have gotten much worse, quicker. But the people came out in record numbers and voted...and it was based on most of the same issues we are hearing belabored this time around again.
Then we have this immigration bill fiasco. Clearly a quick and direct ticket to ending our soveriegnty and continuing the push for a borderless, stateless North American Union...and a stab in the heart at our culture and way of life. Again we see the American people rising up and making a difference. Make no mistake, the votes this week are a result of millions and millions of direct phone calls, in person visits, emails, letters, and faxes.
With these types of things going on at the same time we so much else depressing...I say there is reason to hope. There is a vast segment of our population that can and will act. They have proven it over and over again. Sometimes it takes longer than we hope...many times much ground is lost between. But the power is out there to make the difference.
As I said, we have a long trradition in this nation of rising up at the critical hour...I believe with what I have seen of the people around this country, that we will do so this time too.
OBTW, the number of dead Americans (because I include the southerners in that number too) was closer to a million in the civil war. More than all of our other wars combined...and in four years.
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Well, my point is that there were plenty of eras WORSE than the current one in American history. Just the Great Depression alone was MUCH WORSE than now. Widespread unemployment, people on breadlines, other people riding the rails like hobos, Okies desperately looking for work just to pick oranges in California, communist unrest. Sorry, but I think just the OPPOSITE. We actually live in quite good times. Technology is improving our lifestyles at a very rapid pace. Al-Qaeda is being slaughtered in Iraq. And, most importantly, the dopey use of corn for fuel is forcing many food companies to substitute sugar for that horrible corn syrup.
My apologies about the Civil War statement... I said "dead" American for the Cvil War...and what I really was talking about was casualties. Big difference. Sorry for the fopah.
Generally, 620,000 combat casualties are accepted (some say a little higher,, others a little less). Butthere were also several hundred thousand civilian, and non-combat (ie. in prisons) casualties.
You are forgiven, my son. Now go and sin some more.
It has always, to one degree or another, been thus.
Surrealism was most anarchically powerful when a historical view of the scenery was replaced with a political view.
We don’t live in perfect times but this is definitely one of the BEST of times. A lot of this can be attributed to technology. Thanx to the internet, we now have the free flow of information that was unthinkable just a few years ago.
Difficult times...but lots of hope at the same time. The people are making their voices more and more heard on this immigration issue. Despite all the media, the liberals, the RINOs, the extremists groups like La Raza...and unfortunately the support of the President, the people are making their voice heard above all that clamor and many of the political whores are hearing it and fearing for their political hides.
That's good...now we just need to get the people to vote accordingly and get rid of these whores and get some real statesmen in there who will work for America as opposed to themselves.
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