Everyone has probably seen at least one demonstration of a controlled demolition. Some old building somewhere needs to come down so a crew of demolition specialists is called in. They analyze the building for weakness, plant charges in specific places that will do just enough damage so gravity can finish the job. Once the charges are placed and the switch is thrown the building collapses in on itself in a cloud of dust and debris.
America, like the aforementioned building, has a foundation. It’s been a solid, reliable foundation that has seen a young upstart nation through many trying times. Properly maintained it will support us as we reach for heights and discoveries yet to be imagined.
Rather than risk a full on frontal engagement the enemies of America (yes America has enemies both foreign and domestic) have been attacking that foundation systematically, consistently and relentlessly. So what exactly is the foundation of America? Lets unpack that.
To understand the foundation of America you must understand the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights and The Ten Commandments. You must read them. It’s not difficult they are all fairly short documents. Having read them you must then think about what they say and why they say it. I can’t do those things for you but I can try and point you in the right direction.
America’s foundation has always been strong. Until recently nearly everyone understood that the bricks that made up that foundation were nonnegotiable. Bricks like…
Law and order, equality before the law, the law equally applied to everyone. Yes, the system was never perfect but we believed in it’s potential and worked endlessly to correct it where it went wrong. Today those concepts have been stood on their heads. Law and order is no longer the goal of our leaders. They see police as nothing more than a tool to enforce their desires over us. Equality before the law now means your political enemies must be ruthlessly crushed for no other reason than they are your political enemies. Law and order is now based on skin color and social status. The names Biden, Clinton, Comey et al prove in glaring neon letters that the law does not apply to some. At the other extreme, the January 6th protestors, whatever you may think of them, do not deserve to be denied counsel, held in solitary confinement for nearly a year, physically and mentally abused by their jailers, denied their right to a speedy trial and access to exculpatory evidence held by the Capitol Police force. This failure extends deep into the Judicial branch as judges abandon law and order in favor of judicial activism.
Education and the ability to think used to be the only goal of the schooling system in America. The problem America’s internal and external enemies have is that a people capable of thinking critically will forever be an insurmountable obstacle to their attempts to Lord over us. Critical thinking skills destroy the myths of things like modern economic theory and critical race theory. The ability to think critically allows people to see through the fallacy of Global Warming/Climate Change. Critical thinking skills help people to know when they are being lied to, negating the value of government propaganda.
Economic solvency had been a hallmark of the American dollar since the beginning of the last century. America’s internal and external enemies have been working overtime to destroy the value and stability of the American dollar. Americans are irresponsibly taxed, being penalized for working hard, saving money and investing their hard won dollars for their future. The feds spend money they don’t have to pay people not to work. They spend money they don’t have to reward union bosses for campaign contributions and get out the vote efforts on their behalf. The feds shovel billions of dollars they don’t have to foreign governments that actively work against us. The feds give away more billions they don’t have to so called green energy companies whose contributions to America’s energy grid are essentially worthless. They shovel billions more they don’t have to utterly useless expenditures in their districts to buy votes. They do these things all while lining their pockets at our expense.
Truth, especially in the media. Truth in media effectively died under the Clinton administration. Today’s media now openly lie and make no effort to hide it because they don’t feel they have to anymore. In the same vein the vast majority of our elected leaders feel free from the constraints of truth. Our leaders routinely lie about nearly everything from budget busting bills to the value of massive importations of unskilled and uneducated so called “undocumented immigrants.” So called incorrect views are regularly censored or banned on social media platforms because those views threaten to reveal the lies the social media overlords seek to perpetrate. Nothing proves that truth is under assault more directly than the assertion of “fact” that men can in fact become women and there are 72, 96 or 112 genders.
Family has been one of the bedrock principles of America. A functioning family relieves the government of much of what it seeks to manage for us. A working father who provides for his family ends the need for government financial assistance and the strings that come with it. A mother who stays home and cares for her children eliminates the governments influence through daycare and pre-k programs over those children. A family that goes to church regularly denies the government the thing it desires most, to be the source of all authority in the families lives. A family that cares for it’s members denies the government the ability to link preferred behavior to government benefits. The sense of independence created by this kind of family actively demonstrates the limited value of government in family life.
Culture. America had unarguably the best culture in the world. It only took us some sixty years to go from the Wright brothers to landing a man on the moon and bringing him safely home. In that span of time we became the greatest defenders of liberty in history defeating fascists and socialists in two world wars then rebuilding their countries from the ground up. Using our economic might we brought down the Soviet Union, a nation that existed on little more than base cruelty, murder and intimidation and only survived as long as it did because at crucial times America bailed it out of it’s own failures. America’s was a culture that built, in it’s glory days, radio, movies then television. All three mediums today lack wholesome value of almost any kind. Rock and roll, a distinctly American sound that celebrated freedom of thought and action has been displaced in part by rap, a genre of noise that couldn’t exist if the N word and references to women as “hoes” didn’t exist. We were without equal in history at charitable works and giving to those in need. The American work ethic was unparalleled in the world. We built the Golden Gate bridge, the Empire State building, the Hoover Dam and the Twin Towers. In America anyone could succeed if they worked hard and saved their money. Today those attributes are demeaned. Work is for suckers and opportunity, while it still exists in abundance, is said to be as easily observable as Bigfoot.
Religion. As much as many do not want to know it, America was founded by devoutly religious people who believed God had provided them both inspiration and direction. Our founding fathers declared the Constitution would only work with a “moral and just people.” It is considered the pinnacle of wisdom today to pronounce the founding fathers as atheists and ignore the thousands of references they made to and of God in their lives and life’s works. No one in their right mind claims America was ever perfect but religion gave Americans a moral compass that guided us to make continuous strides in areas like equality, justice and compassion. Belief in God held many a persons lesser nature in check, a clear benefit to all. Americas enemies are slowly replacing God with the religion of human secularism, a belief system that allows you “your truth”, no matter what that may be. There is an old saying that goes, “The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing people he didn’t exist.” No truer words have ever been spoken.
As apparently unpopular as these foundational beliefs are among the so called intelligentsia I see little hope for America until they are once again affirmed in both public and private life. Virtually no one trusts the media to be honest today. Virtually no one trusts once vaunted institutions like the Justice Department, the F.B.I. or even the C.D.C. anymore. Today mainline churches deny so called politically incorrect parts of the Bible as if Gods plain words can be ignored without peril. Some churches even hold yearly votes on which parts of scripture to believe in and which parts to pretend don’t exist. So many of today’s political leaders revel in the “rules for thee but not for me” attitude that it is no wonder they are less popular than used car salesmen.
There’s an old saying, “Once you leave home you can never go back” and there is some truth to it. The foundational principles America once held dear are the exception to that old adage.
It’s past time for us to return to the things that made America the lighthouse of the world.