America My Friend, Is Blowing In The Wind. America Is Blowing In The Wind.
Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 by admin | Posted in Unconventional Thinking | Comments
For generations, there were Dairy Queens, homecoming games, people framing the first buck their small businesses collected, lovers riding Ferris wheels on August eves, sailors saluted as they visited the homeland for weekend leave before climbing back on board to protect their nation, college graduations brimming with big dreams of capitalistic enterprises, Norman Rockwell visits between the townspeople and their local physicians, seaside homes with massive flagpoles sending old glory messages across the waters, burger joints broiling heavenly all-American icons between toasted buns, roadside lobster stands, July 4th fireworks that honored all of the brave who came before us, high school dropouts working days and nights to save for starter homes, NASA blowing away the world with its feats of genius and courage, dreamers willing to bet the ranch to launch the next great enterprise and being honored and admired for it, state fairs where people of all stripes come together to celebrate the ties that bind them and to give collective thanks to the America they love and live in, successful people held out as role models, immigrants seeking to enrich the US with their trades and ambitions moving through the legal system to join our ranks (the true and honorable way), a government that smiled at kids’ lemonade stands and even stopped to buy a drink as opposed to serve an injunction, a UN that bellowed and blundered but knew it could never decide a single issue within the borders of the United States, John Kennedy\Ronald Reagan presidents, different as they were, who bled red, white and blue, church and Thanksgiving and a fierce independence that was born in the west and radiated throughout the 50 states and that had the force to destroy the Third Reich, pulverize the Berlin Wall and place the first man on the moon.
All of this fabric of a nation, of THE nation, is now blowing in the wind, subject to a single election less than three months from now. It is not about which party wins–it is whether America survives. For the very centerpiece of those who want to continue and then accelerate the course of the past four years, is to bring all of that down. To completely and unwaveringly change the face of the nation. To close down the very essence of freedom, independence, power, personal options, success, ambitions, dreams, pride and glory. It is to make America a third-rate appendage of a French-style, weak-kneed, hand-out driven, success-penalized social welfare cry baby state where everyone wrings their hands in unison and brings absolutely zero to the world but an overpriced bottle of Chardonnay.
We are not facing an election where one platform wins and another loses. We
are racing toward a day of reckoning where the bureaucrats close down the lemonade stands, the Dairy Queens go bankrupt, the flags are banned, the churches and synagogues taxed, the game changers take their magic acts to supportive environs.
We are facing an election where America, now blowing in the wind, twisted up by sabotageurs, would disappear.
This is not an election. This life and death.
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August 28th, 2012 at 9:45 am
I agree it is an election, but not of life and death, only death and death. Why are we presented with only these two choices? There appears to be a quiet power behind what ordinary folks perceive to be the power, let us call it the shadows of power. The shadows of power give you the illusion that you are “choosing” the next president however they have selected the two from which you will choose. It is like you go to the grocery store to pick your laundry detergent “Tide” or “Cheer” does it really matter as they are both “owned” by Procter and Gamble.
September 4th, 2012 at 10:54 am
Great writing job! Your words evocatively tug at the heart, starting with pure nostalgia to capture the (American) reader’s sympathies and then seamlessly transitioning to the jingoistic. Unfortunately, your enthusiasm appears to have run away with your sense of proportion.
To say, “…the very centerpiece of those who want to continue and then accelerate the course of the past four years, is to bring all of that down” is hyperbolic beyond excuse. Especially combined with the subsequent use of the word “sabotageurs” (sic), your text essentially claims that the current administration and its supporters are guilty of treason.
The inexcusable turns dangerous with your claim that the coming election is nothing less than life or death. If enough people believe that millions of their fellow citizens pose an existential threat to the nation, some among them will be motivated to violence if the election doesn’t “go their way.”
Please take more care in exercising your right to speak freely. Use your eloquence to remind us of our American heritage of comity, civil discourse, and the rule of law. Use your right of free speech to motivate us to engage each other in vigorous debate so that the democratic process works going forward as it has worked in the past. Tell us to start with the premise that our ideological opponents share our conviction that the United States of America should remain free, prosperous and strong; then tell us to quit taking the easy path of ad hominem attacks and instead shoulder the much heavier burden of dialogue.
PS – I happen to agree that the Obama administration has gone too far in claiming executive powers, has done too little to protect to civil liberties, and has given too much deference to corporate interests. I do not, however, think the President and his supporters are un-American or are traitors.