America is a nation in decline. Sadly it is a decline that is as much or more one of deliberate manufacture as it is one of historical entropy. The signs are all around us but no one in the political class or the 4th estate possesses the courage to openly face it or call out those responsible for it, well because it is that same political class and the 4th estate that bear the largest responsibility for it. Eight years ago we were fed a massive caravan of horse shit under the rubric of "Hope and Change". It didn't take a genius to see at the time that it was all a lie, but anyone who dared point that out was ignored, silenced or condemned as a slow witted racist at best if not a card carrying member of the KKK at worst. Nevermind that all one had to do was read Obama's own works to see that he was/is just as racist as any real Klan member.
No, no we were told. Judging the man by the words of his own discriptions would be so unfair. We must confine our judgements to the perspectives of the politicians and pundits who supported him and the lofty rhetoric of his latest stump speech. Drawing any inference as to his character by that of those with whom he had long associated or self defined as his roll models and mentors would just be to unfair. His history was irrelevant. All that mattered was what he said subsequent to announcing his candidacy and in the historical significance of his being the first black man to be nominated by a major political party.
Well so much for Obama being the "great uniter", the creater of a "post racial America". All the portrayals of Obama as the new Lincoln or FDR reincarnated were as phony as the man himself. Like everything else about leftist ideology the road to hell has been paved and sold as good intentions. Every single policy or legislative action his administration has undertaken has not just failed but proven to be an unmitigated disaster. From health care to foreign policy to economic policy, everything has failed. I would defy anyone to delineate a single MEASURABLE success.
Here we are nearly eight years later and by virtually every MEASURABLE quantum we are worse off. Less than two years in the so called Affordable Care Act has proven to be anything but affordable. The "Arab Spring" has spread instability, violence and slaughter not seen since the depths of World War Two from across the entire arc of the Muslim world, into Western Europe and even to the heart of our own nation. While at the same time the perpetrators of the disaster can't even bring themselves to admit that the root of the violence lays in the 7th century barbarism if Islam itself.
Meanwhile on the streets of our nation are racked with a visceral hatred and violence that shocks the conscience of peace loving Americans. A violence driven by issues as phony as Obama and the politicians who manufacture and exploit them.
We are being forcibly driven into a new segregation under the oxymoronic notions of diversity and equality. We are told that "Black lives matter" except when it comes to black inner city gangs slaughtering each other and anyone hapless enough to be caught in the crossfire or the tens of millions of unborn black babies murdered in their mother's womb as a matter of convenience. Even suggesting the idea that anybody else's lives matter just as much, be they cops or clowns, is immediately condemned as callus at best or overtly racist at worst. The dreams of Martin Luther King jr. And the accomplishments of the civil right movement are being plowed under like so many weeds in the name of creating chaos and glorifying a self destructive culture of entitlement and nihilism. Not that even 10% of contemporary thirty something's would even know what that is.
So today we are being fed that same caravan of horse shit under the rubric of more historical significance of the first woman nominated by a major political party. again we are told her history, the words that have come out of her mouth in the past are irrelevant. That the only thing that matters is what she said in yet another speech. As the expression goes, same shit, different day.
If our nation's founders were to be looking down upon us they could be forgiven if they thought they were gazing into some alternative universe of a massive insane asylum. After all, which of them could have conceived of a national debt of $20 trillion dollars or a nation where over half of those people of working age not only don't work but demand that those who do support them? Lincoln warned us that if America should ever fall it would not be at the hands of a foreign power but rather would be a death by self inflicted wound.
For better or worse we survived the civil war and it then took another hundred years to address some of the scars left by that conflict. Along the way we managed to free millions of people across the globe from tyrannies far worse than slavery and at the same time become the most prosperous and free nation in all of human history. Whether or not we will survive the next civil war that is being deliberately created by those who would seek to destroy the very concept of a Constitutional Representative Republic is yet to be seen.
Being of that generation born immediately after WorldWar Two and having long been an observer of how history or more precisely how ignoring history, drives and shapes the present and the future, I am probably more cynical than most, but I fear that no matter what the outcome of this election we are headed into a paroxysm of violence and despair that will surpass even that of 150 years ago.
No one could harbor any greater hope than I, that I am proven completely and utterly wrong in this analysis. The reality is that their have been forces arrayed against the very concepts of natural rights and self government since long before the American Revolution. Those forces are on the ascendency again. Like it or not, whether they shall prevail or be beaten back once again is up to each and every one of us. We might want to think we can go about our lives and leave politics alone, but rest assured that politics has no intention of leaving you alone. And if the likes of Hillary Clinton and George Soros and the rapacious greed of the Wall Street oligarchy prevail they will not only not leave you alone, they will consume you and what is left of your freedoms.
I know it sounds trite and cliche, but it is none the less absolutely true: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Make no mistake that that is what they seek. They will tell you that the world has become to complex to trust individuals with the freedoms that made this nations great and the envy of the world, but they want you to trust them with the power to take your freedoms away. If you let them prevail without a fight I hope you are prepared to tell your grandchildren either why they must live in chains, or they must fight and sacrifice and perhaps die trying to restore those freedoms you let slip away.
