America The Great – Now Let’s Take It To Hell

I’m beginning to learn why I struggle more and more each day to fit into America’s new society. It’s simple really. The America I grew up in is long gone. History is not taught anymore. The Constitution is nothing more than toilet paper and our current president says the U.S. isn’t and never was a Christian nation.

See ya’ll later!

Here’s what disturbs me most and there’s nothing I can do about it, yet I refuse to be a part of it because I know it is wrong. I feel sorry for those who know not the difference. The majority of our society today finds socialism acceptable. They find loss of liberty acceptable. They find decadence and immorality just a part of modern day living, progress, part of the living liberalism. All of this and more has led people to say that those of us who cling to what we know is right and what made America great – the land of the free and home of the brave – are out of touch. We need to get with it and change our value system and join in the fun.

David Brooks, still referred to in the Main Stream Media as a conservative, today in his article in the New York Times, chastises what he calls republicans because they still cling to “freedom, individualism, opportunity and moral clarity”. He says it’s time to move on and morph into a political party that panders to the communistic way of life, with a focus on community and doing everything together, all for the common good.

Brooks accuses republicans of bringing forward to today the wrong lessons in history. Because of the party of the right’s track, he thinks republicans are too busy with “untrammeled freedom and maximum individual choice”.

It seems to me that David Brooks has drank a little bit too much Kool-Aid. He’s all agog about community and being civic, sort of the same way that a totalitarian thinks of communism – it’s perfection.

I suppose it is for some of the reasons talked about here, that there is no real long term history of a republic or a democracy. History is soon forgotten.

While we can sing Kumbaya, hold hands and do group hugs, it might make us all feel good but in so doing we have forgotten the “freedom, individualism, opportunity and moral clarity”, that brought this nation to a point where people can choose to group hug and drink Kool-Aid.

As individuals living in a free society, we can choose which of those Currier and Ives villages Brooks seems determined to live in. Communities are a part of our lives as we have made them such but that shouldn’t mean that we can’t go home to the place of our choosing as well and be free, be an individual, while protecting opportunity. Do I need to surrender all that in order to live a lifestyle designed by Barack Obama and his followers?

Ultimate freedom, which once used to be a valued asset to life, is complete individualism. This once rugged individualism that Brooks now opts to ridicule and discredit as something only found in the movies of years gone by, prevented despots and dictators from ruining our way of life.

This current society has no vision of the past making them blind to the future. I suppose this will make my future a difficult road because I have a very clear knowledge of the past and with that I see a country heading in the wrong direction.

Tom Remington