我們的國家發生了什麼事？ 這些都不是我們的價值觀，這不是現在的我們

我們的國家發生了什麼事？ 這些都不是我們的價值觀，這不是現在的我們
What Happened To Our Country? These Are Not Our Values, This Isn’t Who We Are
Jul 21, 2018
I think I’ve figured it out.  There’s multiple Americas.  I don’t mean North, Central and South.  I mean multiple US of As.  What other explanation could there possibly be.  When I hear a windblown politician, a television yakking head, or the wholly ignorant in the streets making these comments I think:  That’s exactly what should be happening in our country!  That is exactly what I value.  That is exactly who I am.  So, here we rest our weary hearts and minds.  In a standoff across an ever-widening abyss.  An abyss of wayward ideologies, ignorance, directionless baseless hatred, stupidity… multiple Americas.

As they like to declare over there in East Virginia, let me be clear.  There are rational people who consider themselves either liberal or conservative.  There are irrational people who are used as a broad brush to categorize them all.  Not every liberal is a progressive socialist.  Not every conservative is a white supremacist.  There are conservatives more liberal than self-identified liberals.  There are liberals more conservative than self-identified conservatives.  I would say the same about self-identified Democrats and Republicans except with each passing day, that nom de plume is becoming more meaningless.

One America has become irrelevant.  Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is irrelevant.  Our Constitution is only relevant to the extent we can get enough judges to declare it means whatever we want it to mean.  What’s relevant is political power at all costs.  What’s not relevant is loyalty to our country, knowledge and acceptance of our history including the good, bad and ugly, understanding American Exceptionalism – the only country ever founded on the precept of individual liberty, and basic knowledge of how the branches of our government are supposed to function.

Own up to it, the world’s most powerful country, we are no longer a unified like-minded people.  Like minded in the importance of liberty that is.  Nope.  We are a color, an ethnicity, a religion, a gender, a hyphenated American, a sexual orientation, pro-life, pro-abortion.  We are you name it – everything except freedom loving Americans.  Guardians of freedom.  We hear about the unfairness of capitalism by people who’ve become wealthy because of capitalism.  We hear of the virtues of Socialism and Communism minus their world scourge from the already wealthy or the ignorant.


A house divided against itself cannot stand.

https://newswithviews.com/what-happened-to-our-country-these-are-not-our-values-this-isnt-who-we-are/