Disappointment and Disillusionment
Sent out a little message from Pravda yesterday. Seems like it is true that everyone has a twin somewhere. Mine appears to have been born in Russia and now writes for Pravda.
He talks about America's embrace of Marxism and our economy, our society, and our culture being subverted from a Christian, capitalist republic that believed in God, family, country, private property, and rule of law as limited by the Constitution into a Marxist, atheistic State where even the heads of private companies are to be dictated by the president.
I occasionally will send out a funny to my friends, but never more than 4 or five on any particular funny and only then it if really is a gutbuster and only if I think that person will enjoy it. Yesterday, however, I was shocked and energized when I read this fellow's condemnation of America's embrace of Marxism, atheism, and homosexuality. I guess maybe it shocked me to realize that while I have been more than a little vocal in my criticisms, some part of me hoped that I was wrong. Sad to say, I am EMBARRASSED at what my country has become. I am embarrassed at what my republic has come to and just how exactly on point this article was. American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper , by Stanislav Mishi could have been written by me.
I received a couple of responses, ranging from, "Wow, he is on point!" to "Yeah, baby! power to the people!" The latter I plan to ask on Monday if he was kidding or being ironic while I am looking him in the eye. The oddest one, though, was not addressed to the MESSAGE or the AUTHOR, but the fact that they did not approve of the people who brought the article to my attention.1) Not worried about the fall of the Republic, pissed at the people who told me to read the article.
2) Not upset about homosexuality and the energy with which the West is embracing it...even holding it up as a virtue, just mad at the people who quoted the article in its entirety.
3) Not even concerned that since he has been in office President Post Turtle has spent 2 trillion dollars, basically abrogated and nullified all of the property rights of the Chrysler bond holders and setting aside all normal bankruptcy law by threatening them with the White House press corp, trashed what little shareholder value was left in GM in order to pay his campaign promise to the unions, and refused to allow healthy banks to say NO to TARP money in order to stay out of the sonabitches' clutches.
Hellfire, I am afraid to put money in an IRA or retirement account because this bastard president may confiscate all retirement plans and roll them into Social Security. Is this a real threat? Words lead to actions.
I am down to feeling like the only thing I can be sure I own is whatever I carry with me. Babies cannot eat, half a million people a month are losing their jobs, legions of people graduating from high school cannot read, point out America on a globe, nor balance a checkbook let alone THINK and what is the country torn apart by? Gay rights.
Devalue the currency and pay off the bondholders is what the monetarists are saying is an inevitable outcome for the 2008 Depression. Well, here is an idea: Why not support the currency, pay our debts, and keep our national honor? Put the bastards in prison who agreed to this and start over with a fresh legislature altogether? In other words, DEAL with the problem. It pisses me off seeing Americans be so weak, so unwilling to deal with their problems, so wishful in wanting the approval of the rest of the world, and so reluctant to shoot our true and avowed enemies in the head. It is with a wide eyed bewilderment that I look at these things.
Somedays I am fired up about fighting this fight, but when I get a response like that, it makes me want to just quit and let the whole shite pile collapse. If America embraces homosexuality and abortion and embraces Marxism, then let it fall. I am my own nation, I am my own culture and I only got to satisfy one Being in all the wide universe. I guess it does not help that I genuinely like the man who responded so. My disappointment is like a hot stone in my stomach. Oh, well.
I keep struggling to qualify what we have now as Fascism or Socialism, but it is like one of those holographs, it changes with a change in the light.
Tim
...and yes, folks, I am well aware I am pissing the wind and writing to see myself write. As Rome Burns, I don't have a better plan.
