The fabric of demolished government

The Internet is awash with entries lamenting the extinction of the American republic. I wonder where all those people were during the last several decades--were they among the so-called Christians whose attitude was "let go, let God," as they went on their merry ways, doing little or nothing but enjoying their good life? I used to watch the late D. James Kennedy as he valiantly attempted to stir his audience to get off their duffs and at least write a letter--do something for your country! That is little enough.

Issue after issue has appeared requiring Americans to speak out, but more people watch a ballgame, vote for dancers or new idols (and I have only seen/heard when passing by and most of them ought to be ashamed of thinking they could sing! No, now that I think of it, it takes a lot of guts to stand up and bellow what passes for song, but they are quite gutless when it comes to speaking on behalf of the land of their birth), than ever went to the polls, even their hometown polls, much less national. Not until stirred by propaganda that would make Hitler blush!

I've been "doing something" for more than 55 years and the apathy among Americans makes me ill, even though I have to agree with many, that we have been given the lesser of two evils for presidential candidates from way back--way, way back! Add to that the schools have turned out brainwashed kids in large numbers -- look at the high schoolers demonstrating for illegals down in Phoenix--not dry behind the ears -- and you know they were put up to it by their teachers and/or parents when they are spouting the canned slogans which passes for thought these days.

We used to have Congressional Committees capable of investigating the origins of movements of this kind -- I have printed hearings of such hearings, although it is late at night and I don't feel like unpacking them to give you chapter and verse on such things as the Kent State mess, or the so-called peace movement, and all the other things that the radical left has originated since the first time they stirred popular sentiment.

What was that bombing in Los Angeles back in the '20's, not to mention the Sacco-Vanzetti crusade they put on, or even the hatred they displayed during the Viet Nam war yet gave such accolades to the likes of Jane Fonda who gave aid and comfort to the enemy. Not that I was for the war--it was a farce--to send our great young men to fight Communists when we were awash with them in the White House, the State Department, the Treasury Dept, and dozens of other
agencies of government. A schizophrenic situation, saying we had a "cold war" even as we financed any and all Communist/socialist governments around the world who vote against the U.S. at every opportunity, despise us, call us names, create shooting incidents, get away with it, and then put out their hands to be crossed with silver!

There has never in all history been a country that dusted off the vanquished, restarted their commerce, rebuilt their houses, factories, hospitals, schools, sent food, clothing, medical aid, and asked for nothing in return but a friendly smile-- until and even now when we face financial ruin at the hands of the greedy, rapacious rascals in Congress and the top-heavy government bureaus!

When I read Daniel Webster's eulogy to George Washington in 1832, it makes me feel like weeping:

"Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous wars should sweep our commerce from the ocean, another generation may renew it. If it exhaust our treasury, future industry may replenish it; if it desolate and lay waste our fields, still under a new cultivation, they will grow green again, and ripen to future harvest.

"It were but a trifle even if the walls of yonder Capitol were to crumple, if its lofty pillars should fall, and its gorgeous decorations be all covered by the dust of the valley. All these may be rebuilt.

"But who shall reconstruct the fabric of demolished government?

"Who shall rear again the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty?

"Who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites national sovereignty with States rights, individual security, and Public prosperity?

"No, if these columns fall, they will be raised not again. Like the coliseum and the Parthenon, they will be destined to a mournful and a melancholy immortality. Bitterer tears, however, will flow over them than were ever shed over the monuments of Roman or Grecian art; for they will be the monuments of a more glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw, the edifice of constitutional American liberty." (emphasis my own)

But read it and weep. We are on the way, and if anyone had really listened to the pre-election oratory, they would have recognized it for what it was and is. The Constitution by Marx.