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Having just returned to the United States after some months of working overseas again, I thought I would share some thoughts about what is apparent to some here and oblivious to others.
Americans, for the great part, are not Europeans or Asians or South Americans or Africans. Unlike some in power now, they do not identify with the great, and less auspicious, causes that transform nations and continents beyond the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Though they or their families have both recent and distant memories of why they became Americans rather than stay for better or worse in the countries of their origin, all know that they are here, either by right of birth or by difficult legal immigration, because the American dream is unique.
The history of the United States was formed in an extraordinary Revolution, though inspired by the European Enlightenment, one which reflected the frontier, a frontier of opportunity, of self-determination, of turning a back to the safe and the predictable and the unappealing controls of onerous government and the strictures of a privileged few.
Over the years, the maturation of the country came of great internal debate as to what is the proper course now. The great expansions Westward, the War between the States, industrialization, the inclusion of formerly disfavored populations, the move toward joining the global game that came with the World Wars and the Cold War, all were part of the American experiment and reflected, in some way, the common vision.
There were many missteps along the way that took lives, effort and wealth to overcome. Such is the fallible nature of even well meaning people. Only through sacrifice does any true worth become apparent. Only through successful struggle, always struggle, does what is important manifest itself.
Over the last four years, though many would argue for a longer history with the failure of the Republicans to fully deliver on their promised "Contract With America," it has become apparent to many that the Nation has gone off track. In many ways our American national leadership has become as dysfunctional as any European monarchy or fascist/socialist entitlement State.
The empty promises of something for nothing, the pandering to special interests, the bankrupting of the Nation both morally and financially was accelerated by an empowered class of politicians, corporate mavens and their sycophants in a propagandist press.
While it is easy to point to the Democrats that hold almost overwhelming power at the Federal level as the cause for what ails America, in fact it is necessary to acknowledge that the citizens of this country were willing fools to accept their lies and to put them into positions of power.
That is apparent to all, yet, still, those many who feed at the trough that is loaded by these governing fools are loathe to be pushed from their privileged places and unearned entitlements.
All Americans now live in a time of great uncertainty. This worry has caused great reflection and, yes, has caused a great populist movement to be born.
No, the Obama "progressives" are not that movement. For all their claims of being something new they are no different than any population rushing toward unearned entitlements elsewhere in the world. They are the legions of fatuous fools who bought the empty promises of self-serving Democrat politicos and their enablers. Disturbingly, they can be identified as the ones who seek to dance on the grave of those Americans that came before them who had a far different, a far greater vision of what this nation aspired to.
The Tea Parties, a spontaneous and overwhelming outcry that came from that first shout out by Rick Santelli, now represent the practical and manifest form of American anger and its portent for the rejection of the wrong direction America took for the last four years with the Democrat ascension first in the Congress and then in the White House.
To understand exactly why there will be a mass rejection of the corrupt Congress, including more than a few RINOs, come November and, eventually, a corrupt Executive in 2012, it is necessary to enumerate at least a few of the precise reasons for American anger.
It is a uniquely American anger, for these reasons may be considered the norm in other parts of the world. They are alien and foreign here, though in no small way they have become too common, festering and bringing us to the point of the upheaval that has manifested itself in the past year and will now have consequence at the ballot box in November.
Americans, for the great part, are not Europeans or Asians or South Americans or Africans. Unlike some in power now, they do not identify with the great, and less auspicious, causes that transform nations and continents beyond the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Though they or their families have both recent and distant memories of why they became Americans rather than stay for better or worse in the countries of their origin, all know that they are here, either by right of birth or by difficult legal immigration, because the American dream is unique.
The history of the United States was formed in an extraordinary Revolution, though inspired by the European Enlightenment, one which reflected the frontier, a frontier of opportunity, of self-determination, of turning a back to the safe and the predictable and the unappealing controls of onerous government and the strictures of a privileged few.
Over the years, the maturation of the country came of great internal debate as to what is the proper course now. The great expansions Westward, the War between the States, industrialization, the inclusion of formerly disfavored populations, the move toward joining the global game that came with the World Wars and the Cold War, all were part of the American experiment and reflected, in some way, the common vision.
There were many missteps along the way that took lives, effort and wealth to overcome. Such is the fallible nature of even well meaning people. Only through sacrifice does any true worth become apparent. Only through successful struggle, always struggle, does what is important manifest itself.
Over the last four years, though many would argue for a longer history with the failure of the Republicans to fully deliver on their promised "Contract With America," it has become apparent to many that the Nation has gone off track. In many ways our American national leadership has become as dysfunctional as any European monarchy or fascist/socialist entitlement State.
The empty promises of something for nothing, the pandering to special interests, the bankrupting of the Nation both morally and financially was accelerated by an empowered class of politicians, corporate mavens and their sycophants in a propagandist press.
While it is easy to point to the Democrats that hold almost overwhelming power at the Federal level as the cause for what ails America, in fact it is necessary to acknowledge that the citizens of this country were willing fools to accept their lies and to put them into positions of power.
That is apparent to all, yet, still, those many who feed at the trough that is loaded by these governing fools are loathe to be pushed from their privileged places and unearned entitlements.
All Americans now live in a time of great uncertainty. This worry has caused great reflection and, yes, has caused a great populist movement to be born.
No, the Obama "progressives" are not that movement. For all their claims of being something new they are no different than any population rushing toward unearned entitlements elsewhere in the world. They are the legions of fatuous fools who bought the empty promises of self-serving Democrat politicos and their enablers. Disturbingly, they can be identified as the ones who seek to dance on the grave of those Americans that came before them who had a far different, a far greater vision of what this nation aspired to.
The Tea Parties, a spontaneous and overwhelming outcry that came from that first shout out by Rick Santelli, now represent the practical and manifest form of American anger and its portent for the rejection of the wrong direction America took for the last four years with the Democrat ascension first in the Congress and then in the White House.
To understand exactly why there will be a mass rejection of the corrupt Congress, including more than a few RINOs, come November and, eventually, a corrupt Executive in 2012, it is necessary to enumerate at least a few of the precise reasons for American anger.
It is a uniquely American anger, for these reasons may be considered the norm in other parts of the world. They are alien and foreign here, though in no small way they have become too common, festering and bringing us to the point of the upheaval that has manifested itself in the past year and will now have consequence at the ballot box in November.
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