From my perch and particular time in life, there has been this continuing growth of a fundamental absence, an essence that was practically universal during our Founding. More concerning is that this missing link has become ingrained within portions of our elected leaders. Specifically, what’s missing is a basic love of country, which entails the essentials of pride, honor, respect, and patriotism.
Not only are such essentials absent, but filling this emptiness are overtures to instruct and influence just how corrupt and totalitarian America truly is. Substance for such stems from our darker era of slavery, which was actually a leftover from British rule. Never mind that hundreds of thousands of American lives were given for its ratification, those who stir this anti-American stew have somehow continued their stirring so as to form the basis for today’s injurious anti-American attitudes.
What formerly brewed alone is now visibly open with its skewed demands of their injustice, which falsely flies under a justice banner. As a matter of fact, whatever the claim is, think in reverse terms since it’s all ‘malarky’! Pleas for tolerance actually will produce intolerance, and the finality of equality and equity will be anything but! Our leadership’s ongoing show of indifference can act as our “north star for truth.”
Concern for our elected ones needs to center upon how careers are molded and almost guaranteed when our country is experiencing this societal disarray, never-ending indebtedness, and insecurity. Could there be another motive for such lengthy tenures, and if so, at what point do we as a free people begin to demand otherwise? Has their indifference caused this apathetic attitude of “you can’t fight city hall” or “one vote doesn’t matter” approach? Judging from the following statements, one may wonder!
With complete disregard for our nation’s Founding structure, a former university bigwig and NJ Governor, who became President, stated that our WWI sacrifice was to “make the world safe for democracy.” Tell that to those in the trenches! Then, how about this successful Presidential candidate spicing up his campaign by voicing his intentions to “fundamentally transform America”? Later, after being elected, he let it be known that “America is not a Christian nation.” Hello, Ten Commandments! Then, an unsuccessful presidential candidate yelled, “what difference at this point does it make?” This was her response to a Senate inquiry into a 9/11 night in Benghazi when American lives were lost.
Would these remarks be during earlier times when struggle and sacrifice were so recent and personal? Just one such utterance would end campaigning. As time passes, human nature intervenes to lessen those sharper remembrances. Today is precisely what they anticipated and attempted to guard against since their understandings respected this eventual wavering from their alert and jealous guardianship. Later, in June 1836, Daniel Webster also sensed this happening when citing his fear for future generations; “I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made dupes of designing men, and become instruments of their own undoing.”
Sure sounds familiar!
