One day, all the lies, BS and cover-ups will come to light. The spin, maneuvering and ignorance will shine like the brightest star on the darkest night for all to see. One day, people will look back on their country’s history and choices and say things like: “What were they thinking? Why didn’t somebody try to fix it? Was everybody stupid?”
Here are some of the things that will become part of the Legends of Fall of the Stupid and Selfish America:
Believing that America is powerful and magical and safe from extinction
Accepting, “Well they did it too!” as justification for poor behavior
Thinking that power doesn’t corrupt isn’t capable of Godless acts
Believing that individuals have real power with their Government
Believing that convenience and comfort come at no cost
Not caring who pays the cost as long as it isn’t them
Promoting welfare for those who are capable of doing without it
Believing that tax breaks and subsidies aren’t welfare
Creating artificial outcomes in order to make everyone equal
Lack of Term Limits for ALL elected and appointed people
Lack of Line item legislation
Believing that the media isn’t biased and is for the people and the nation
Believing that some media is different from other media
Believing that schools just need more money to solve the problems
Believing that parents and their kids aren’t part of the problem
Believing that education unions are helping the kids
Believing that Unions are for the good of the people and nation
Trial lawyers creating a new type of career classification for people
Debt fueled social engineering
Social engineering
Ensuring one feels good at the expense of many
Believing that tolerance is a good thing
Believing that by acting in a racist way will stop racism
Believing that you are not part of the problem
Believing in something other than God as truth
I will admit my faults, learn from my mistakes and fight evil and corruption and ignorance at every opportunity. I will forgo comfort to stand alone to identify and try to correct things when they aren’t right. I will lose friends and power and money for the stand I take on these beliefs because it is the right thing to do. In the end when I have failed to help this sinking country, I will also be the one to say, “I told you so.”
Existing is not living. Today, America exists. The systems and power brokers have been allowed and even have been encouraged to destroy a beautiful opportunity for people to truly live and be free. I see my fellow Americans in cages that they believe are equally necessary and immovable. Sadly, most don’t see the cage at all. I see the power brokers supervising the welding of those cages. I see those who are charged with ensuring our liberty standing idly by while more personal prisons are built for the American people. I rage against the true injustice that corrupt power delivers. I rage against the helpless and hopeless who have no will to stand and fight for what is good for all. I am saddened by those who were warned about cages and then help build their own cages. I loathe those who were warned and then complain that they are imprisoned and expect someone to get them out.
The corrupt do not have a monopoly on the absence of rules and consequences. Do you think that just because you aren’t on a leash that you should feel good about being in a cage? Do not expect. Demand! Words are lies; actions are evidence of belief and intention. Take over, not back!
— R. A. Grier