It’s halftime. Both teams are in their locker room discussing what they can do to win this game in the second half.
It’s halftime in America, too.
No it is closer to the end. They are getting ready for the closing curtain on the dream of liberty. The city on the hill is becoming the city tyrannized by those the hill.
People are out of work and they’re hurting. And they’re all wondering what they’re going to do to make a comeback. And we’re all scared, because this isn’t a game.
We are so deep in debt that it would take four generations to pay it off, if we ever stopped spending ourselves in more debt. A better analogy is that we have a great tradition as a team, but we are now losing 77 to 0 and the coach is calling for the quick kick and a prevent defense.
The people of Detroit know a little something about this. They almost lost everything. But we all pulled together, now Motor City is fighting again.
We had it extracted from us against our will. This is like saying the thief almost couldn't afford his new smart phone, but we all helped out when he took our wallet at gun point. Now the thief is calling his crack dealer again.
I’ve seen a lot of tough eras, a lot of downturns in my life. And, times when we didn’t understand each other. It seems like we’ve lost our heart at times. When the fog of division, discord, and blame made it hard to see what lies ahead.
Only it is not hard to see what lies ahead. Empires fall in history and they will again. When debt reaches critical mass and the currency has been debauched and the character of people corrupted it is obvious, the what lies ahead. The hope for the blessing of liberty on planet earth will be vanquished for a season.
But after those trials, we all rallied around what was right, and acted as one. Because that’s what we do. We find a way through tough times, and if we can’t find a way, then we’ll make one.
You can only spend so much of other peoples money and then you run out. We ran out many trillions of dollars ago!
All that matters now is what’s ahead. How do we come from behind? How do we come together? And, how do we win?
We cannot win unless we know what winning is. I define winning as securing the blessing of providence with liberty, self government, inalienable private property and life.
Detroit’s showing us it can be done. And, what’s true about them is true about all of us.
Yes Detroit is showing us that you too can be a lazy union slug, that it doesn't matter as long as you pay off the right folks. Those folks will take what is ever necessary from whomever they want to secure your own lazy self interest. Justice be damned, liberty be damned, private property be damned Detroit is showing us the way.
This country can’t be knocked out with one punch.
But it can die from suicide or a drunken overdose.
We get right back up again and when we do the world is going to hear the roar of our engines.
Or the crashing of hope and the fall of the West, like a drunk falling down the stairs at least the alcohol deadens the pain.
Yeah, it’s halftime America. And, our second half is about to begin.
Waterloo here we come!
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