... Ramblings

I'm just an American madman, watching the current era with a heavy heart.

The Great Experiment has not yet failed, but it lies on the ground, stunned and frightened, wondering if it yet has the strength ... if its bruised and battered body can muster its will and rise again to defeat the Progressive onslaught that has hammered it so mercilessly. Does it ... do we ... have the physical or, more importantly, the moral courage to endure? Do we still have the inner Patriot that knows that what is happening and knows it is wrong and strains against the chains of Modern Radical Liberalism, for Liberty and Personal Freedom and love of life? Against the loss, not just for ourselves, but for the coming generations that will listen in wonder and disbelief when told that anyone with a will was free to succeed or fail based on the merit of their skills and talents? Where anyone, even the lowliest drudge, can become a billionaire, regardless of their nationality or religion. Anyone.

Will the stories of their parents and grandparents become the musings of old people, then fade to history, and finally out of existence forever? If you don't believe that this is what we are facing, here in the sunset an era, then you need to look at some history. You can still do that. At least for a while.

The Progressives are in charge. You can insert whatever term you want there. Liberal, Democrat, whatever you want. Its all the same today. They vote together, even if they disagree with their colleagues, they vote together. They are not free thinkers, but they are determined thinkers. They've been at this for almost one hundred years, give or take a few, and they have learned stealth and patience. A little nudge here, a quiet appointment there. Baby steps.

They have stepped up their pace, of late. The changes are no longer small, the appointments not so quiet. They've come out from hiding with the intent to bring us low, to steal our children's future, to ensure that they're way is the only way.

But ...

We've been down before. We have had the wind knocked out of our sails before, pushed to the dirt, humiliated. Empires have tried to destroy us, terrorists have tried to take us out, and we've always stood back up. Even after we went to war with ourselves, we came back better and stronger than before.

We've never faced a foe like this, with the power of our own leaders against us. Manchurian candidates. The welfare of the American people, that which the government is charged to protect, is in grave danger.

They have your "health care" now, and you'll only understand what that really means, you who are duped by the flowery words of the Progressives, when you look back and see it in the end, when it will be far too late. It means that, someday, sooner than you think, they will control the very intake of nutrients you are allowed to have. Your medical and civil records will be available to everyone from the McDonald's cashier to the bank. All they'll have to do is scan your National I.D. card.

They control the educational system now. Your money goes to your children's schools through the government, so they decide what your kids learn. The history is their version of history, with the distasteful parts removed to shield the kids from the terrible and dangerous ideas of our forefathers. Liberty and Freedom? Pfah! We apparently don't really need them, now that The Messiah President is here to take care of us. They decide, now that they control all of the money that a person can borrow for their "higher" education, what you get to learn. That means they control all education, from cradle to mortar board.

... But ...

We are Americans. We have done more for the people of this planet than any other nation in the history of the world. We have been beaten, but we have never given up, and we have never lost. Although we have never lived in the world of today, with its unique challenges and unrest, we have been here, politically, before, and we triumphed, in the end.

Whether we change our direction or not, is all up to us. Our decisions over the next few months will, in all likelihood, decide the far future of these United States. What we must do is ensure that our rights, given by a higher authority, are not lost to our children. We must do whatever is right, and necessary, to preserve our country and its culture for all the new generations.