The Demise of America

[Gary Hunt]

The Demise of America

Gary Hunt
July 4, 2010 (and the 234th year of our Independence)

[Note: I would like to acknowledge the assistance of Trey Tasker for review and editing this article.]

Where we began

America! Just what is America? Well, for a few centuries, it was the ideal of individual freedom and prosperity. It was the hallmark of self-government, and it was the ultimate salvation of two
major efforts of world conquest. It was
the deciding factor in both world wars, and was the refuge for those oppressed,
elsewhere. It was, for all intents and
purposes, a great experiment that had proven itself over all other forms of
government and a foundation of moral values, which, un-retarded, had provided a
commitment to the rest of the world for aid in achieving similar prosperity,
freedom, and moral value.

America is an overreaching name for what is, geographically, just another country in the world of countries, though it was also the name that applied to a Union of countries that had joined, for better, or for
worse, to achieve those goals set out by the Founders, some 220 years ago. America
was manifest in the United
States of America. It was and remains that which is otherwise
unachievable in other nations of the world.

A thorough study of the history of the United States will demonstrate, to all, that it had, after its inception, surpassed all expectations in
establishing itself amongst the nations of the world as a formidable force with
which to be reckoned.

Within 36 years of its separation from Great Britain, it had achieved the means of
defending itself against the most powerful imperial power in the world.

Within the first century of its existence, it went through a tumultuous period of civil war, though it managed to avoid the separation, or change of government,
that would otherwise have been the result of that upheaval.

Within just over a century, it had attained a position of esteemed prominence in the world of industry.

Within 150 years, it had become the economic center of the world whose dollar became the exchange currency most acceptable among the other nations of the world.

Looking back from the challenges of today, the questions that haunt us are:

1. Has America lost its values -- its moral compass -- and those many aspects, as set forth by our Founders, that had set it out as a model to the remainder of the world?

2. Has it outgrown its usefulness both to the people who call themselves Americans, as well as those who look, from afar, and envy that which was?

3. If so, what has lead to the demise of that image of a better life, or, was it just the imagination of those who proclaimed its nature, for those two hundred years?

Political Correctness

Freedom of Speech is probably the most important and absolutely necessary enumerated right in the Bill of Rights. The ability
to express oneself, both to others and to the government, is fundamental in a
country that is composed of self-governed people.

That freedom allows us to express ourselves to others, but also to ourselves.

So, what happened when the means by which we express our thoughts, concerns, ideas, beliefs, and, secrets, is curtailed, by any means, at all?

Let's look at how this works. Suppose you have had a religious upbringing, and a morality founded upon that belief. You understand that heterosexual
relationships are the only morally acceptable form of relationship. You were raised understanding that
homosexuals were immoral, and the idea of two people of the same sex having
relations together was repugnant. There
was another word, a slang word that was used by most people including
homosexuals, which was a reference to that type of relationship. The word was "queer", yet it was
not necessarily derogatory. After all,
it meant odd, curious, or unexpected. There
is little doubt that the definitions fit, when compared with what was presumed
to be the proper moral relationship.

Of course, the term "queer", being odd, was indicative of someone who was not up to par with the morality and, as such, tended to exclude them from
the acceptable norm.

Now, what if there was a concerted effort to abolish the terms queer and homosexual, through a policy of what is known as "political correctness”? The substitute term would be "gay",
meaning light hearted, brightly colored, or carefree. Under the social, political, and, in some
cases, legal pressure, you succumb to the new phrase for what was considered
immoral, not to very long ago. You
accept and use the term. Over time, your
mind follows that implied change in the character and nature of the word, and
what used to be unacceptable, or immoral, behavior, has, both in the spoken
word, and in your mind, attained a degree of respectability that, without
political correctness, would never have been achieved.

Before long, you have adjusted your moral values to accepting what you knew to be unacceptable, though you are not sure just how that change occurred.

Another word that has come into common usage, though is now defined differently than it was, just a few decades ago, is "hate". Hate is defined a number of ways, such as,
dislike intensively, or a strong distaste.
Often, hate is defined as the opposite of love.

Hate, however, need not have, and in most cases, at least in the past had, no connotation of violence. Violence stood
all by itself.

Recently, however, hate has changed from dislike of liver, or distaste from immoral behavior, to an adjective that is applied to certain crimes of violence, with
the intention of providing more serious penalties, under certain conditions,
usually unilaterally. We have accepted
this definition so that certain portions of our society are afforded more
protection, under the law, than others, regardless of the extent, and, often,
regardless of the cause of a violent act.
As a result, we have allowed ourselves to believe that crime perpetrated
against some members of our society are worse than the same crime being
perpetrated against other members of our society.

In both of the above examples, we have withheld our (freedom of) speech to avoid offending. As a result, we have managed
to allow our minds to be manipulated into accepting things that we clearly knew
to be untrue.

By subtle manipulation, we are having our fundamental right of freedom of speech transformed into behavioral manipulation, a form of social engineering, and,
consequently, a very serious encroachment upon that sacred right.

Education

A number of advocates promoted public Education, early on in the formation of this country. Probably the most well
known advocate would be Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson has given us many quotations of his belief in the necessity of public education, and each will engender the consideration of the effect of the
absence of education upon the morality, prosperity (of the community), politics
and the necessity for the people to understand, and then, approve or disapprove
that actions of the government.

Public Education, however, predates Jefferson. In the Cape Cod area, for example, an annual tribute of fish was contributed to pay for the
services of a teacher, available to all of the children, as compensation for
his services.

However, after the formation of the new country, the United States of America, the promotion of public education was left to the county or other entity, at the
local level. It wasn't until after the
Civil War that the idea really took hold and the literacy rates of the
population began to increase.

Very probably, the long war, the destruction of property and lives, was instrumental in the desire to assure that the population could consider all aspects of
political decisions, so that their affirmation of the actions of government
would be based upon being sufficiently educated so as to be able to properly
judge those actions.

The following is from the Department of Commerce data, and reflects the literacy rate (of the white population) from 1860 through 1979.

Year White Literacy Rate
1870 88.5
1880 90.6
1890 92.3
1900 93.8
1910 95
1920 96
1930 97
1940 98
1947 98.2
1950 No data
1952 98.2
1959 94.4
1969 99.3
1979 99.6

Note that there was a continual progression of literacy from 1870 through 1947. After the creation of the federal Department of Education, in 1953, we see a shift in education from the Public School
System, which had achieved so much, over the previous century, to both federal
and state entities. We also see a shift
in the upward rates of literacy.

During this period, we were experiencing a rapid growth in population, what would eventually be style the "Baby Boomers". These children, the byproduct of the attitude
that prevailed after the victories of World War II, did put an increasing
demand upon the educational resources, during that period from 1947 to 1952. It also removed the traditional, and,
demonstrably successful, method of education that had brought us what was later
described as the "greatest Generation", all of whom were educated
under the former system of Public Schools.

With the intrusion of the federal government, as well as the state governments, replacing the decision making from the local School Board, whose interest was
of the ability to educate the children of their own community, to the
centralized, political and bureaucratic control of education, by those quite
distant from what the needs, abilities, and resources of the community were,
also provided a new means of measuring literacy.

Under the new guidelines for the determination of literacy, as it has evolved to the present time, the schools will teach, primarily, that information which is
necessary to pass the competence (literacy) test created to measure the ability
of the schools to educate our children. Any
education beyond the purpose of proving competence is secondary.

Arts, science, history, and many other areas of discipline have been subordinated to the effort directed to passing tests in which the answers have become the
primary curriculum.

It has become abundantly clear that the average product of the government school system is, functionally, illiterate, though the statistics, revised to prove
the efficacy of the centralized control of education, will prove to the
contrary.

This deals strictly with education, though it does not deal, at all, with the morality, ideology, history, nature of government and the heritage of this once
great nation. Can we assume that the
desired effect of the educational system has been achieved when, for the most
part, the educational system has become a tool for government propaganda and
the reduction of the average education to one of rote and compliance?

Is it in our best interest to put into the hands of those who would enslave us, the education of our children? Or, should that responsibility be placed back in our own hands.

Religion

Those who first peopled the shores of America in the early Seventeenth Century were fleeing religious prosecution in Europe. As they
established themselves on those hostile foreign shores, they established
equally sectarian societies from those that they had fled. They were, however, more than willing to
share the land with others and only endeavored to impose their religious
sanctions on those in their immediate communities.

Originally, they were left alone, by the mother country, and allowed to practice as they saw fit. Over time, however, the Church
of England began imposing the tenets of that Church in many communities,
effecting the government of entire colonies.
Other religions were allowed to practice, though all paid tribute to the
master Church.

A turning point came in the late Eighteenth Century when the ties that had held the colonies to their mother, England,
were severed. The mother Church was
allowed to continue, though it was relegated to the same authority as all of
the other churches in the country.

Though all religions were allowed to be practiced, even Mohametism, the moral values of the country were firmly established in the Judeo-Christian ethic. It was the foundation of the laws, the spirit
and the prosperity that flowed from the people to make America a
symbol of good and righteousness to the world.

It was the moral values that flowed from that religious source that inspired the courage, strength, and commitment, to enter two world wars, which tipped the
balance of power and allowed the defensive powers to prevail against the
aggressors.

America has, through its entire history, recognized the role of God in its foundations, establishments, and history. Religious
quotations are inscribed on most of the government, both state and federal,
buildings built in its first two centuries.
Moses and the Ten Commandments are prominently displayed, many times, on
the Supreme Court Building. Prayers open every session of Congress and our
currency bears a prominent "In God We Trust".

More recently, however, those religious virtues have fallen to evil forces that are endeavoring to undermine the moral values and principles upon which that nation
was founded. And, it is coming from an
area least expected. It is coming
through education -- academia, and being fed to that country's posterity,
without the consent of the parents, and, as insidiously as if the Church of
England were back in control of education, morality, and law.

Of course, it is couched in an innocuous term, evolution. The term, however, permeates that society on levels that most have never even considered.
In 'public' schools, which used to utilize the Bible as a means of
teaching reading, and, following the example of Congress, opened each school
day with prayer.

In 1852, a forty-one year old Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species". It was, then, a theory
put forth by Darwin
that all life evolved from a single cell, which was formed by an accident. Of course, Darwin knew nothing of DNA, or he may have
reconsidered the complexity of a single cell -- and its chance of creation.

Today, however, this "theory" has had no advancement, yet it is espoused by the academic community, the scientific community, and the courts (who no longer
provide a Bible for swearing in). They
accept the "theory" of evolution over the accepted principle of
creation, which now, in deference to the campaign against it, goes by the name
of "Intelligent Design".

The proponents of evolution call intelligent design a theory. They claim that it is unsubstantiated and that no proof exists supporting the existence of God. They advance their theories on the foundation
of scientific proof that evolution is the means by which life, and man, came
into being. They have, through massive
campaigns, removed that which was, Creationism, from the classroom, from the
government (where it had comfortably resided for two centuries) and the search
for the source of life, science.

The Evolutionists can best explain the effect, especially in the classroom, themselves. Most will proclaim that they
did once believe in God and were raised religiously, though upon their study of
evolution, they determined that there is no God, so they became atheists. Though, perhaps, not scientifically provable,
they have laid claim to the proof of the lack of the existence of God to be a
direct result of their studies.

They have created, by academic denial for those who believe in Intelligent Design, through establishing curriculum absent any mention of Intelligent Design, through
refusal to consider Intelligent Design in any scientific research, and by
pursuing legislative restriction on the discussion of Intelligent Design, an
environment which is void of such teaching, or even the consideration of
Intelligent Design, voiding the minds of our youth of any consideration of
those sources of Providence to which the people, and this nation, owe so much.

Absent religion, which provides a moral foundation, we can expect that morality will become as individualistic and varied as the number of people in that country. Situational ethics -- doing what feels right
-- is becoming the morality of America, and, though not scientific, by any
means, is best demonstrated by the very obvious changes in morality (out of
wedlock birth rates, divorce, homosexuality, pedophilia, etc.) in recent
decades.

The decline in morality and virtue is indicative of the failure of a society. It loses its moral fiber that binds people together, its commonality, and its very binding sprit, which will, eventually,
lead to its demise.

The final point to be made, here, is that the government has chosen to dictate what cannot be said from the pulpit, which has had sufficient impact upon the
preaching of immorality.

Immigration

Immigration can be one of many lifebloods of a nation. In the case of the United
States, that lifeblood began flowing more
than 350 years before the birth of that nation.
Immigrants from Europe came for many
reasons, though most commonly, to practice their Christian faith, without
obedience to a state/church government.
This Freedom of Religion, though restricted by community, was not
restrictive to the practice of religion, as each saw fit.

Through those first few hundred years, the Anglican Church, from England, held absolute sway, in some of the colonies.
Other religions may have been allowed, by tithes (taxes) were paid to
the Anglican Church for distribution only to the Anglican churches.

After the founding of the United States, religious freedom was guaranteed to
all, and embodied in the Bill of Rights.
For those, then, and their posterity, the freedom of religion (absence
of laws restricting the practice of religion) became assured for generations to
come.

Time, however, and the lust for power in government (fear of opposition) generated a subtle change that would begin to diminish this significant right (birthright)
of Americans.

It began with the simple gift of tax-exemption for churches. With the imposition of taxes, which are questioned by many as even being constitutional, any organization requesting
exemption from those taxes must file with the government claiming status as a
religious, not for profit, corporation.

This, by itself, had no effect on the ability of the church to preach sermons that might favor a candidate, or a policy.
But, over time, those who controlled the purse strings wrote into the
laws that the churches, in order to maintain their tax exemption, could not
support candidates or policies, unless the government turned their back. This meant that preaching could include
support for anything that the government wanted, but excluded any sermon that
would undermine the authority of government, by removing that exemption.

Churches were left to abandon any sermon, regardless of how well founded in scripture that was in opposition to government policy.
Morality had become subject to the approval of the government. Consequently, church corporations began
voting, by whatever form that had chosen, to abandon doctrines that were
fundamental to their scriptures.

Few, however, have been willing to challenge the illegitimacy of such incursions into the practice of religion, though most of them are fully aware that sermons
preached within the laws of the time (under British rule) offered no such
limitation on the exercise of religion.

With banner held high, "Freedom of Religion", we continue to accept that government is, as required by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
protecting that fundamental element of a person, and a nation's, morality.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing and other industries were major elements in achieving prosperity, and attaining the recognition as the greatest industrial power on the earth.

In the Nineteenth Century, the availability of natural resources; open land; desire for expansion and settlement of those open lands; and the free market
(uncontrolled by government) became the means by which that prosperity was
achieved.

Industry was able to find a market place for its goods. The availability of resources was unlimited, allowing for rates of
production to meet demands. Absence of
governmental involvement gave a free hand for the free market to develop
plants, seek new markets, and innovate new products, beyond anything the world
had beheld before. Tens of thousands of
miles of railroad connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and Canada to Mexico. Each new mile added additional resources,
land for settlement, and profit, which returned to expand the network, even
further.

Innovation created new machinery for harvesting of crops, reducing manpower, and increasing productivity in the bread belt, thereby providing more than ample
supplies of food to the growing nation.

Innovation also developed new methods of manufacturing, which would continue to lead the way in production, for decades to come.

At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, war encompassed the world. The geographic isolation allowed product supplies to be increased to meet the demands of wartime goods. Though our participation in WWI was not
immediate, eventually, the spirit, ingenuity, and individualism that had lead
to that prosperity provided an American fighting force that turned the tide of
that war.

Just a few decades later, another war encompassed the world. The productivity of that industrial giant was able to produce goods, and transport them across the seas, at a rate that was
unachievable by all of the other countries, individually AND combined. Once again, the American fighting force was
the turning point in the war.

The demands of this second war had produced production lines incomparable to anything that preceded it. Plants that
produced toys were converted to the manufacture of weapons, within weeks. Means were developed to adapt to any demand,
and the production facilities went undamaged by war, providing a prosperity,
post-war, that was later defined as the American Dream.

To this point in time, a philosophy of "A Good Product at a Fair Price" was the motivation, both in and out of war, to produce. America was second to none in industry, and
more than willing to share its knowledge and resources to rebuild the damaged
countries resulting from that war -- even the enemy's country were rebuilt and
their industry re-established, mostly along the lines of what America hand
learned in the century preceding.

About this time, and in order to aid another country's recovery, a practice of contracting foreign industry to produce certain goods lead to the denigration
of a product by referencing the country or origin, "Made in Japan". These products, for the most part, were low
profit, easily made, and required little technical ability to produce.

Over the next few decades, Industry continued to prosper, however, the philosophy shifted from "A Good Product..." to what became known as "the
bottom line" mentality.

As a consequence, many of the industrial machines were produced, under contract to foreign nations, and then returned to the United
States bearing the name of a United States corporation. The same foreign manufactures also
manufactured the same products for sale through different distribution systems,
bearing their name, even though the products were otherwise identical.

Most of the raw materials (natural resources) to manufacture these products were mined in the United States,
transported across Canada to
Pacific ports, shipped overseas in foreign vessels, processed, manufactured to
finished products, and then returned to the United States on foreign vessels. Amazingly, these products would be for sale
at less cost than they could be manufactured here.

One of the reasons for this gross disparity in cost of production was the proliferation of unions, demanding higher wages, more benefits, and job
security, and, often, limiting production rates to ease the burden on the
worker.

The government, by the end of World War II, legislated in favor of these unions, without regard to the consequences, and by venturing where the Constitution did
not authorize them to go.

This fueled the fires of profit, at any cost, to the point that became destructive to American industry. Quite the opposite
of "protective tariffs", the new course was actually beneficial both
by support of unions and reduction of tariffs (e.g. Most Favored Nation
status), resulting in the decimation of American industry.

Currently, less than 10% of the manufactured goods in the marketplace are made in this country, though they may well bear American names, such as Ford, General Electric,
and Motorola.

Absent foreign imports, whether with, or without American names, our lives would approach third world status, unable to obtain goods for everyday household
chores, workplace tools, and even industrial equipment. Even obscure countries produce more for their
own consumption than does America.

In less than one hundred years, we have gone from the apex of industry to a country almost void of industrial production.
We have become dependent for our daily lives upon those who may, at some
time in the future, become our enemies.

Dependency

Dependency, by its very nature, makes one subordinate to that upon which it depends. Children are dependent upon their parents, until they have reached an age and the competence in which they can depend upon
themselves -- independence.

Employees are dependent on their employers to provide both the wages that they earned, and a marketplace for the product that they provide, so that money is available
for such wages. Employers, in turn, are
dependent upon the performance of their employees to provide quality products
and services.

Governments are dependent upon their citizens to provide the guidance (by whatever means the construction of the government is based upon), and for revenue (again,
based upon those means provided) for the operation of that government.

In turn, the citizens of a nation are dependent upon the government (in the case of the United States)
for the protection of life, liberty, and property.

What happens when the government -- the society -- for which it is obliged to provide the means to protect, becomes dependent upon another government, or
country, to assure that the means of daily living can be obtained in order for
that society to survive?

If the government, for any reason, especially after having fully demonstrated that these means are readily available within the country, legislates in such a
manner as to reduce, or even remove, those means, requiring that the society is
now dependent upon another country for its daily means, has it transferred the
primary responsibility for its citizens to another country -- and government?

Has it, by these means, dissolved its entire purpose -- in subordination to foreign interests?

Is it possible that the country which has relied upon its government to secure those means, by abrogating its responsibility, has destroyed the government and
relegated its citizens to the mercy of the whims of another country?

We remain fully capable of providing some aspects of life, such as medicine, weapons of war and destruction, and a relentless line of politicians more than
willing to reduce us, even further, into dependency upon others.

Catastrophic is an understatement of the effect, both short and long term that this transfer of dependence will have upon us.

Tradition

Every nation in the world is steeped in tradition. Those traditions, whether good or bad in the eyes of outsiders, are a
binding force in that nation's culture and are necessary so that the longevity,
coherence, and perpetuation of that culture to continue. Absent that background, it is nothing less
than a new nation without a foundation, course, or future.

The longstanding traditions of the United States have come under attack, recently, undermining the very fabric of that nation granted, by Providence (yes, that is
a substantial part of the tradition), to the people who settled, then fought
for the existence of it.

As the traditions are eroded away, under whatever guise might be undertaken to supplant them, so, too, is the personality, the character, the entire
embodiment, of that nation.

When those traditions are eroded using the guise of the Founding papers, the Constitution, as an excuse for their erosion, the complacency of those who
merely stand by and watch becomes as much of the destructive force as those
who, by intent, are striving for the destruction of that nation.

Regardless of the ambitions of the latter, or the absence of objection by the former, the effect is the same. They both allow a
transition of government, as much as if conquered buy military force, though
the means are far more subtle. The
intention is the same, and the result is as effective as the alternative.

Taxation

Though only a small part of what lead to the Revolutionary War, taxes, as they have through history, have become the means by which people are most often
oppressed.

The French-Indian Wars had taken an economic toll on England. Generally, the coffers of government are maintained, absent war, by a relatively small tax, intended to replace the debt
incurred by war. This was the case with
the Stamp Act, in 1765. In order to
replenish the treasury, taxes were laid on the colonies. This, along with the removal of charter
government (See The End
of the Revolution and the Beginning of Independence) incited sufficient
concern in the colonists to begin down the pathway that, eventually, lead to
separation from England.

The intention, as had been the practice, even under British rule, was to restore the Treasury and then to remove the taxes, with the need for replenishment no
longer being necessary.

That practice served America quite well, during its first nearly two centuries. The taxes imposed during World War II were in
the single digit percentages, and the tax that had been imposed was,
originally, imposed only for the duration of the war.

Instead, and by the time the America attempted to accomplish, in Vietnam,
what the French had failed to achieve, the government had raised taxes, and
they had become a way of life. Twenty
percent of income, or more, was the norm, nearly seven times greater, on all
income, than the 3% taxes, only on certain items, that had roused the anger of
the colonists.

Government had determined that they could maintain near perpetual war, if they were able to provide a constant and permanent flow of revenue, never allowing the coffers to
be depleted.

Their President, Dwight Eisenhower, in 1961, in his Farewell Address, provided insight into what he had seen as a threat to the future of America, when he
said, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The
potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will
persist."

He realized that the "economic favors" bestowed upon those who made weapons of war, by the government who benefited, in one way or another, from perpetual
war, was a danger to what our country stood for.

Leadership

The leadership in this country is recognized by that title, but have you considered what the word means?

Leaders are those who lead. Just how do they achieve such significance that would warrant our following them?

Back in the late seventeen and early eighteen hundreds, there were many who had achieved their positions of leadership through demonstration of their ability
to lead, and thereby justify our willingness to follow them.

Over the years, however, things have changed. Now, the people that we are to follow come from a degree of obscurity. Their respective parties, somewhere along the
line, have decided that they have 'achieved' such prominence that they can be
cast forth as leaders. But, what criteria
are used to determine that they have demonstrated their ability to lead?

Consider, if you will, that for them to garner the support of the party, they will have had to assure that the party is well satisfied with, well, their obedience to
the party. Let us take the current
president of the United
States.
He was obscure. A senator from Illinois, who was
nothing more than a yes man for the party.
Virtually all of his votes were on the party line, though he had
something going for him: the party, already
satisfied with his obedience, determined that they could promote some aspects
for their chosen candidate and convince the voters throughout the country that
this man was worthy of the role of leader.
Nothing to demonstrate that he could, it is simply a matter of selling
their candidate to the public. This is
accomplished by taking polls; analysis of the results; developing marketing
strategies, not unlike those used to sell cereal or drugs; and, determining
what people want to hear, in each region of the country, and assuring that
their candidate says, in that region, what they have told him to say, in that
region, and, likewise, in the other regions.
If you should have any doubts, recall what the candidates have said in
the past, such as, "Read my lips, no New Taxes", or, "I will
have a transparent government."

In the end, better leaders can probably be found by looking in your local community rather than looking at the television, which will bring you exactly
what you want to see.

Government is designed to serve the people. Understanding that it is impractical, and imprudent, for everybody to be involved in every
decision required to be made at the top level of government, we have developed
a system whereby the will of the people, through their chosen representatives,
is made so, on the people's behalf.

If you would, imagine an inverted triangle. The base, being at the top, constitutes the people. Below them are the representatives of the
people, and at the very bottom, the point of the inverted triangle, is the
President of the United
States.
His purpose, according to the Constitution, is the chief executive of
the country. His job, then, is to carry
out the will of the people (top of the triangle), as expressed through their
representatives (middle of the triangle).
He is the lowest man on the triangle, and his job is to work for us, on
our behalf.

For whatever reason, perhaps an inadequacy in the educational system, we have learned to accept the triangle in the wrong configuration. We have allowed that the President is at the
top of the triangle, master of all. Below
him is the Congress, our representatives, making decisions that are both
contrary to, and against our will. Finally,
at the bottom, are we, the people, who find ourselves forced into obedience to
the government, and, paying all the bills that they can accumulate, while
attempting to tell us that what they are doing is in our best interest?

Where does this leave us?

Through a slow and meticulous process, events that are hardly noticed begin to have an effect on the people, and the future, by that same process, is modified in such
a way that the people who have thought that they knew what freedom was,
eventually, find that they are no longer free, nor are they what they thought
that they were.

Those in control will exert their efforts to the point that a substantial majority will accept the conditions that they have imposed.

In time, the acceptability of what has been imposed, through these subtle means, becomes even more accepted, if not in years, in a decades or two, that which
was, will be lost among the pages of history.
The newly accepted condition becomes the platform for the next
generation of change, which, ultimately, will result in that which the United States
was to be lost, and that which it has become to be accepted as that which
always was.

When unlawful force or influence are used to undermine the obligations of government, the people subject to that government, are also slaves to that
government.

This, unless we accept our responsibility of restoring that which was, will result in the Demise of America.

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