The laziness of Americans, as opposed to the laziness of humans in general, will prove the undoing of our culture and comforts, unless there is large-scale social change. The pieces – or parts – of the social engine that created a series of technological revolutions that placed men on the moon in 1969, are well-known, but widely disparaged. How can a successful society turn away from what worked for it for hundreds of years – even thousands – and turn in a generation or two towards multiple paths of destruction of those same social-civil engines that made America the most attractive, envied nation in the world? It requires intense purpose and planning.
Not long before the Eagle landed, the United States reached its highest level of living standards for the largest number of people, of all races. John Kennedy was president at the time and it’s been downhill for the United States since then. Social pollution had slipped into our “main” stream of progress towards the future. The generations of World War I and the Depression had proven their rightness and righteousness by raising up the “Greatest Generation” who sacrificed lives and property to remove large elements of evil in World War II, and then rebuilding former enemies so that they might join “America” in a future of freedom, democracy and prosperity. Unfortunately, the evils of Communism were not destroyed at the same time, instead literally encouraged through treaty and malfeasance to grow and entrench in two of the largest countries: the U.S.S.R. and China.
Communism is unalterably antithetical to the American idea and system; it is antithetical to religion, by definition, and it is contained and promoted within a mission of ridding the world of religion and individuality… two of the key engines of American success. How is it possible that Communism could ever gain a foothold against the beautiful system and ideals of America? Long-term, never ending planning and step-by-step erosion of values. “Well, I’m not a Communist,” you are saying to yourself, “and there’s no way other Americans could ever fall for that crap.” You’re only half right… on both parts of your statement.
First, how could anyone fall for Communism in the United States? We “know” it fails to increase freedom and inevitably descends into fascist authoritarianism, controlling every aspect of life and interaction in society. Communist nations are organized by classism and are examples of racialism of the worst sorts. Communists of varied virulence have followed two tracks, and one is education. Over the past 60 years, while our “representatives” have been consumed with clinging to their elected sinecures, leftists, convinced of their being so much smarter than those who “cling to their guns and Bibles” as Obama notably observed, have taken control of educational colleges and programs. This placed leftists (Communists) in charge of certifying teachers and controlling the curricula in education degree programs. Bit by bit our schools, mostly public, but the majority of private schools as well, have slanted curricula toward what “educators,” especially those Phd.’s who get hired as superintendents and commissioners of education, think is most “progressive.” No one wants to be “old fashioned” else we won’t be keeping up with competing countries.
From teens and college students who got away with drugs and free sex rebellion in the 60’s and 70’s, have sprung generations of children who have been raised in “socialist” homes by parents who perceive winning as more valuable than learning, training and personal advancement. If that means “beating” the system and protecting their offspring from the consequences of failure, then there are no limits. College courses, themselves, have more and more quickly responded to social change and trends, first from feminism and then anti-Christianity and sexual deviance. Today students can “major” in relatively useless study areas that have grown out of non-individuality, non-individual responsibility, communalism. We can hear this diversion from what made us strong and resilient when “advocates” and activists describe their deep feelings and concerns for this or that “community.”
The “gay community” or the “trans community” or the “African-American community” are terms that display an inherent rejection of Americanism. Our fundament is individual responsibility, individual success and individual failure, if that is what it takes to learn how to improve and succeed. The quality and character of each of us Americans, is what matters… not the false groupings proto-Communists would try to have us believe exist. Everything, good or bad, is “class-actionable” to communists.
The most destructive laziness is to allow the present circumstances to continue.
The other part of your – our – belief that we’re not Communists also is, sadly, in question. Leftists – Democrats – love to accuse Republicans of planning to cut Social Security and Medicare. Republicans automatically trumpet their promise to “protect Social Security and Medicare!” What they are really saying is: “We believe in these parts of the Communist Manifesto even MORE than those Democrats who claim to care about you!”
Federal money has purchased most Americans’ philosophies. The line between good solid American values and corrupt socialist nanny-statism is moving with almost every “omnibus” bill in Congress and every election cycle. We are, by and large, afraid to give up Communism, now. How can we make the case for freedom? And, what is that case? If most Americans are committed socialists, who is going to rally behind rolling socialism back?
Perhaps you were an obedient mask-wearing soldier in the battle against COVID-19. Some of your compatriots are still wearing their masks, convinced, by government wisdom, of something or other. You have thought you were protecting others and saving lives (despite all science to the contrary) and need only for our benign governors to alert you to something else that only your sacrifice can save us from… imminent destruction of the environment and our planet, for example. “Whatever it takes,” you think to yourself, “just tell us so that we know what to do.” Needless to say, YOU will never be called an “anti-vaxxer” like those deplorables that are constantly skeptical of what is necessary to save us, all. Many of them probably attended Trump’s speech on January 6th, 2021. You don’t need to convert to Communism, the Communists are perfectly happy with you as you are: malleable and far removed from individuality. No trouble.
Now, to save the planet, we are instructed, American success must be stifled. Americans use too much energy, eat too much food, consume too much health care, drive too many miles, invent too much. Maybe if we legalized extra-strong marijuana, dumbed down our education, shifted our university education towards social confusion and division, spent time and money on transgenderism in the military… perhaps then we can make progress towards snuffing out that damned American energy and genius. Individualists will never kneel down for global government so let’s force Americans to divide against one another. Students must be encouraged to foreswear their responsibilities by pretending to be the opposite sex – it’s a good way to divorce them from their meddlesome parents, as well. We can’t have parents inculcating their offspring with religious beliefs and hard-work ethics. All that pro-American stuff must be watered down.
So who are the “we” making all these plans? Why they’re our elected and appointed federal and state officials! We, the people, put these communist-socialists into power over us! We, the people, largely ignorant of our responsibilities as U. S. citizens, have agreed with the hateful divisions that have popped up everywhere with the appearance of COVID. Leftists have been rubbing raw the feelings of many blacks, mainly those who have failed to excel after generations of welfare dependency, failed education and inner-city criminality. Institutionalized failure under federal “programs” have rewarded “community activists” for agitating a restive sub-group. Leftists have worked for years to forgive the somehow-justified hatred for “white” culture, even when it expressed in riots, murders, looting and arson. All that has been needed is an “unjustified” death at the hands of white police personnel – and not always “white” – any police. A few communists, a few hired-to-be-incompetent district attorneys, and almost any tragedy can be turned into a society-ripping weapon against America. If you think the anger and destruction is justified: the “Saint George Floyd” effect, then the committed communists and globalists (same people) are perfectly happy with you. Their plans to remove the U. S. of A. as a stumbling block to globalism, are working better than well.
There’s always the next election, of course, when we can vote in some true patriots who will correct the problems the federal government creates for us. That might be a plan if we hadn’t acquiesced to wholesale weakening of election laws and voting regulations slowly for decades, then in a rushing flood under COVID. Every one of us must be vigilant in our states and question every regulation for voting that has been promulgated since March of 2020.
Communists and other leftists LOVE democracy. All that voting… all those ballots… people can be persuaded to believe they are in control and making real choices. One can observe that the largest “democracies” have nearly universal voter participation and, interestingly, nearly universal approval of one candidate. How wonderful. Even not-so-large “democracies” where some hapless opponent(s) of the approved candidate(s) find that the approved candidate still manages to eke out a win after ALL votes are counted. This means ALL ballots are counted, not actual votes, but ballots. As the great democrat, Josef Stalin opined, the people who count the votes are more important. Clearly that has become the byword for leftists and capital-D Democrats in the United States: the purpose of an election is power – not democracy, not strengthening our republic, not expanding citizen participation… power. And, since that is the true purpose, whatever it takes to realize that goal is justifiable.
After all, whenever leftists slip up and a Republican gains power, he or she is merely an interloper to be tolerated until power is restored to its rightful owners. It is time, fellow citizens, to restore honesty in government – all three branches and the elections that create them. Maybe a candidate will run on a platform of honesty and truth-telling to his or her constituents… ummm, naah.
We could ask, though. If you’d like to make a candidate squirm, ask if he or she will adopt honesty and truth-telling as his or her platform, promising to tell the truth about government to constituents… to people like, well, you? You won’t be able to keep up with the semi-true and misleading replies that question elicits. Should that person take office, Prudence predicts that the answers he or she might offer, should you ask, will become less and more tenuously connected to truth. Finally, “our” representative become a representative of the government TO us. That is when we ought to know that it’s time to replace him or her with someone new. Otherwise that sickly-sweet candy shell with the intensely bitter center, known as Communism, will win.