The Virtues and Principles of Our Country are Being Destroyed
Every day President Obama and his administration and allies in Congress continue their march to fundamentally change America. He said it would happen when he campaigned to be president. I don’t think anyone in America, envisioned that the changes would be so radical. The Progressives certainly dared to dream that the changes would be so, but the majority of Americans wouldn’t have thought that the march would include tyranny and Socialism to the degree we are seeing.
At what point would you have ever thought we would have turned our backs on a democratic government that was upholding their rule of law and following their own constitution? Honduras is fighting for their freedom and liberty and our government supports a Marxist? Czechoslovakia and Poland depended on the United States. Those missile sites were important to their security as well as projecting U.S. strength around the world. The Russians must be laughing their asses off at the ineptitude of our government.
Honor used to be a virtue. We vote people into office to represent we the people. Does anyone take that seriously anymore? We voted a man in to the highest office in the land that had zero managerial experience. No executive experience. No experience in governing. Why? Because it was historical? Because he was an entertainer in a land of American Idol culture?
What I believe is that we now have a complete void of leadership. Whiskey and Gunpowder writer James Howard Kunstler writes about it better than I can:
From where I sit, the uproar can be attributed to comprehensively bad American leadership, a crisis in authority and legitimacy that has left a functional vacuum in every executive office throughout the land — from the White House to the state houses, to the lairs of the CEOs, to the towers of the deans and department chairs, to the glitzy sets of the nightly news deliverers, to the makeshift quarters of the NGO chiefs. In former times, clueless and impotent leaders stuck their heads in the sand. Nowadays, with pandemic narcissism abroad in the land, the heads are more usually inserted into the aperture that leads into the large bowel….
Good people do not run for office. Those that do are beholden to special interests. They swear to defend and uphold the Constitution but very few even know what that means. Congress is now made up of either the corrupt like Charlie Ragel, the inept like Barney Frank, or the 1960’s radicals like Nancy Pelosi. The Constitution is being shredded.
I wish we would go back to strict adherence to the Constitution. That is what I am fighting for. Liberty and freedom as the Founders created. The constitution was created to keep the federal government from having power over the people. The Bill of Rights was specifically written to create roadblocks for federal government power. Apathy from the American people have allowed our representatives to simply ignore the spirit of the constitution. Obama and many others liken the document as living and breathing. They think the values are from another era and not relevant to today. I completely disagree.
At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked if the delegates had formed a republic or a monarchy. “A republic,” he responded, “if you can keep it.”
If we do not stand up now we are going to lose this republic. Ronald Reagan brought the republic back from the brink for a short while in the 80’s, but ever since it has teetered on the edge of dissolution. It is now under full attack by the fringe left. Up until now we have had almost no help from the right in stopping this assault. They have been complicit in allowing big government to evolve.
It is interesting to me to see grass root efforts by everyday people stand up and be heard. I’ve been to my local Tea Party and I went to DC for the Tea Party rally on 9/12. I saw the power of the people. I’ve never stood up before but I am now. I hope it is not too late.
I can’t decide what to think about the right jumping on this Tea Party bandwagon. They have been a huge problem up to now themselves. I don’t think most in the Tea Party movement have any interest in the right controlling the movement. It’s not about them. It’s not for them. It’s for the people. I see a lot of right leaning politicians aligning themselves with the Tea Party movement. As long as they fight for liberty, freedom, the Constitution and fiscal responsibility then they can be supported. But if they continue their corrupt ways we will be happy to call them out on it and find someone else to represent us in Washington.
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