Posted by fuzislippers
Dear America,
I look at you sometimes, lately, and I
wonder who you are. Remember when God, family, flag and country mattered to
you? Remember when you were a melting pot, welcoming legal immigrants into your
expansive embrace? Remember when that meant that people who chose, of their own
free will, to come here had to assimilate into their chosen adopted country?
When such immigrants were happy, even proud, to adopt the language and customs
of their new, chosen home (or at least to encourage their children to do
so)? Remember when your name inspired pride and unity among your own people
and, equally importantly, when that same name inspired (albeit sometimes
grudging) respect (and, sometimes, deterrent fear) among the peoples of hostile
lands? Remember when your presidents weren’t longing for a “post-American”
world?
I do. I remember it well, and I miss it, I
miss you. I miss sleeping soundly at night, unafraid of my own government. I
miss awaking (from my now restless sleep) to a world that was relatively
(relative to now, that is) peaceful, to a world in which the American
president’s “red lines” were actual red lines and that crossing them had
consequences, real and dire consequences. Consequences, let’s face it, that
were more rhetorical than actionable . . . though if pressed. . . . .I miss
knowing that your enemies were ours, that those who would hurt you, hurt me.
Now, it seems, unbelievably, that I am your enemy because I neither agree with
nor support the horrible policies of your current president. Me, an “enemy” of
America, land that I love? It’s just mind-boggling. How did that happen?
I miss you, America. You once stood strong
beside our allies in Europe and Israel, but now, you do nothing but signal
weakness and submissiveness to dangerous nations that once listened very
carefully to our soft speech and understood all too well our big stick.
What happened to you, America?
Why are your own people angry and afraid?
Why is there so much despair and heavy sadness across the land? Why are your
people allowing themselves to be pitted one against the other? Why, America,
are you not standing tall?
My America–the old, trite version,
apparently–would never fold, would never accept (much less embrace) defeat. My
America, the real America, is not a petri dish for communist ideals and
totalitarian tendencies. No.
Scratch that.
Hell no.
My America, the real you, celebrates unity,
not division; encourages patriotism and doesn’t damn it as nationalistic or
dangerous; my America believes in its people and doesn’t treat them like
half-witted children or pets; my America rejects totalitarianism and embraces
liberty and personal responsibility; my America trusts the people.
But . . . well, I have to wonder, is my
America still there? I look at you, today, and I am saddened beyond words. So
many of your people don’t look at and try to understand the failure, for
example, that is the welfare state; instead, they blindly seek to expand it. As
if making larger something that doesn’t work will, perhaps miraculously, make
it work, you know. . . once it’s big enough: Gee, my amazing flying machine
doesn’t work not because of the laws of physics but simply because it’s not big
enough.
Uh huh.
We’ve fed the seemingly bottomless welfare
state, catered to every “minority” from blacks to Hispanics to women, and we’ve
not made a single dent in poverty since Johnson declared his “war on poverty.”
Instead, we’ve done the opposite and made more poor people, generationally poor
people (i.e the people who are, by government’s explicit design, excluded from
ever achieving the American Dream). And at no time is this more evident than
during Obama’s “management of America’s decline.” Your poor are getting poorer,
America, no matter their race, but among blacks and Latinos/as, the rate of
“new” poverty under Obamanomics is staggering. The first black president is
lining the pockets of his political allies, bankers, and health insurers, and
his multi-pronged attack on your poor and your middle classes is unprecedented.
But of course this is so, America. Obama
wants to make you over, to “fundamentally transform” you, from the richest,
strongest, best nation on earth to just another country steeped in corruption,
fueled by fear, destined to fail.
Remember when the “norm” after a disaster
was for your people to pull together and rebuild (ala Joplin, MO) and not to
stand, helpless and scared, waiting for the feds to “solve” everything? The
free people of your country rebuild, on their own, competently and together;
the people who’ve been re-enslaved by Democrats sit, wait, become the victims
of violence and their own lethargy. It’s really sad. Whole neighborhoods were
destroyed by Katrina . . . and are still destroyed all these years later. Look,
too, at Hurricane Sandy. Again, these people depend on the feds. They are, of
course, ill-served, even mocked by Christie. Americans, real Americans, don’t
sit around waiting for the feds; they get to work and rebuild, they thrive.
We used to know this, America.
I miss you, America. I miss the you who
would look at what is happening now, see it for what it is, and reject it. I
miss the fearless you, the you who refuses to be cowed, silenced, oppressed by
fear (of being called RAAACIST or imperialist or whatever). I miss you,
America, and I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever see you again. ~ Fuzzy Logic
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The assimilation you speak of is truly the essence of America. Alistair Cooke touched upon this unique mix in his book, ‘On The Homefront’ (written, by the way, in 1942 but not published until after his death several years ago). Previously to that, Ernie Pyle devoted a paragraph (or maybe it was a page) in his weekly column to Amercia about the integration of the masses. The Irish marrying the French, the Catholic with the Jew, one race with another and so on. And Ernie put his version on paper in the 1930′s! To quote a future world leader, Gordon Brown, “The new world order was (he actually said, “is”) emerging.” All this assimilation was acting on its own, without government interference…by we the people, if you will! But along came the Woodrow Wilsons, John Deweys, Margaret Sangers, Franklin Roosevelts, James Carters, William Clintons, Barack Obamas of the world that pulled the plug on the natural order of the mix and by imposition reverted us back to the things our forefathers ran away from. ~ Norm
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