This is the most depressing piece
I’ve ever had to write. But recent events have left me no choice. The Great
2020 Presidential Election Hoax and the subsequent Georgia Senate Run-off
Election Travesty were the final triggers.
The United States- all 50 of them-
cannot stay one nation any longer and remain true to its founding
ideals of limited government, free markets, and the idea that life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness are individual’s rights granted by their creator.
It really has come to this,
tragically, but without question. There exist two diametrically opposed
viewpoints in this nation now, and the crux of the matter is that the left will
simply not allow an intact America to continue to exist unless its policies and views prevail.
Period. Conservatives will no longer be able to vote our way out of bondage.
Leftists will riot, they will
indiscriminately- even joyfully- destroy
property and people’s reputations alike.
They will commit acts of violence. They will refuse to pay their taxes.
They will engage in other acts of “civil disobedience.” They revel in the politics
of personal destruction. They baselessly smear those who disagree with them.
And they attack, attack, attack, attack- without evidence, reason or
justification, all while gleefully wallowing in their superior immorality…which,
bizarrely, they believe makes them more moral than those who oppose them. They
will do or say anything for power,
Therefore, one of the saddest things
for me to acknowledge is that the United States has recently become a corrupt
nation; not just a few individuals here and there, but more thoroughly and
institutionally. This is in direct contrast to the Founders, themselves currently
under assault by the politically correct automatons, who take their marching
orders not from reason, tolerance, or a desire to enlighten, but from a dark
and deep-seated need to make themselves appear worthier-than-thou by
denigrating their own country- and excluding anyone who doesn’t worship their
pseudo-inclusiveness.
The virtually intractable,
unconquerable problem at the root of the matter is that government has grown
too big to be either moral or efficient. The millions
of people who work in the hundreds of agencies comprising the federal
government see the status quo as their lifeline, below which they would never
willingly go. To these bureaucrats, government must either get bigger or remain
unchanged. Add in the tens of millions on the government dole, the hordes of
illegal aliens that have entered the country in recent years and the nearly 3 million shape shifters who currently
work in the media, and it has become utterly impossible for one man or one
administration to survive long enough (politically speaking) to push through
many reforms, no matter how desperately needed.
The Founders believed in citizen
rule. Public servants were expected to be just that. There were heated debates
about whether they should receive any pay at all. Terms of service were to be
kept short. Above all, government was to be kept small and accountable. The
Founders knew, better than any before or
since, that governments, and those in them, typically become more corrupt
the more power they accrue and the longer they are in existence. This was the
reason for the Declaration and the Revolutionary War. And the reason they spent
four brutal months holed up in a hot, humid, fly-besotted room in Philadelphia
to craft the most effective, vital, beneficial form of governance the world has
ever known. This Constitution was the owner’s manual, if not the Holy Grail, of
a unique and free republic…of, by and for the people.
Benjamin Franklin, upon leaving Independence
Hall after signing the sublime document, was stopped by a countryman. The lady
said, “Dr. Franklin, what kind of government have you given us?”
To which he famously replied: “A republic…if
you can keep it.”
We have decided we know better than
those old white men now. We have been ignoring that owner’s manual more and
more of late. Soon, it appears, we will toss it out altogether.
The country is more divided than at
any time since the Civil War. At that time, the country was at odds over the
evil of slavery. The United States could no longer continue to exist as it was
with a mix of slave states and non-slave states. [Or should I say “Coexist,”
progressives? I don’t think there were many “Coexist”
(with slavery?) stickers on the back of many horse-drawn carriages back then]. One
of the tragedies of the Civil War was that the concept of state’s rights was
sacrificed in the ultimately successful attempt to eliminate the heinous evil
of slavery. Yet even the federal government was comparatively tiny then, as
compared to the massive, bloated colossus that exists today. Most of the citizens, North and South, with
the blinding exception of slavery, had similar conceptions of how a government
and society best functions, as well as the proper relationship of local, state
and federal government to the people. Moreover, they almost universally
believed in hard work, pulling oneself up by one’s own bootstraps, the Ten
Commandments, the Golden Rule, and other ideas now seen as quaint relics of a
bygone era. Or worse, as an ethos that somehow coexisted with slavery, and
therefore was as bad as slavery.
What is different- and even more
troubling now- is that we are no longer held together by any of those beliefs
and values. By any realistic measure, the country is far more fractured now
than in the Civil War Era, and a possible Reconstruction far less likely. It is
not only fractured by one or two huge, core issues, but by several, and by too
many less critical issues to count. We are no longer a united people with a
common language, culture, history, and lineage. The dirty little secret is that
diversity doesn’t make a society whole, it makes it much more difficult for
that society not to unravel, more likely for it to devolve into violence and
chaos. But the coastal elites don’t care about any of this. They rarely come in
contact with anyone who isn’t just like them, if not in appearance and class,
at least in thought.
The Founders stated- even before
they brought it into being- that a democratic republic could only long exist
with a moral
people. By that they meant a people who would vote for the good of the
nation and not strictly for what might be best for themselves at any given
time. And a people who, while in office, would also think only of the country’s
well-being, not how best to increase their own wealth and power.
We are no longer those people.
Their design worked for 200-plus
years, a people and their government performing better and more benevolently,
by almost any measurement, than any that came before or since.
Now, entitled snowflakes riot in
the streets if others won’t gladly pay for their abortions or birth control.
Faceless bureaucrats sabotage their own president and the will of half of their
countrymen, entirely willing- perhaps eager- to bring down a government in
order to protect their own hold on power.
“Sticks and stones may break my
bones, but names can never hurt me” was the old mantra. Today, many run for a
“safe room” if they accidentally hear something they don’t agree with or they
think is offensive…if they haven’t prevented that speech from occurring in the
first place.
It’s not legal to place a list of
the Ten Commandments in a public restroom, but it is legal for a man dressed as
a woman to enter a woman’s bathroom.
Slaves would have thought the
phrase “All Lives Matter” was the
most beautiful they had ever heard. Say that today and you are somehow
considered racist…and
could be subject to an attack.
United? “Progressives” live to
divide. By race, sex/gender, income, age, and anything else they can think
of. It is the opposite of e Pluribus unum. Instead of “out of many…one,” they
say, “out of one…many.” The Founders built the foundation that the Left is now
so gleefully tearing apart.
During the Constitutional
Convention of 1787, George Washington (convention president) used a chair that
featured half of a sun on its back splat. When a miraculous breakthrough was
achieved near the end of the convention, Benjamin Franklin stood up and said:
“I have often looked at that behind the president without being able to tell
whether it was rising or setting. Now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising
and not a setting sun.”
That sun is now setting.
And if it does go down, it will
never rise again.
