Outmoded Principles Or Fundamental Americanism?

Deborah Venable

10/28/08

As mainstream America watches helplessly while government representatives push to Nationalize more and more of the economy and financial institutions, we see the Godless religions of liberalism and socialism/communism taking over the last vestiges of the most successful and free government the world has ever known. I would have chosen not to see it in my lifetime.

Ignorance has caused it and ignorance will continue to be, as Rush Limbaugh says, “the most expensive commodity” we have.

Public education was instituted in this country for one reason and one reason only. Do you know what that reason was?

Prayer was removed from the classroom at the behest of one philosophy. Do you know what that philosophy is?

The “free press” was established and protected throughout our history for one most important and specific purpose. Dare I ask if anyone can articulate that purpose?

The fact that our elected leaders and legislators have, with the blessing of the mainstream media and most educators in this country, tried to convince the people that we are in the midst of the “worst financial crisis since the Great Depression” stands as a warning that ignorance will take us down faster than anything else could. So many lies have been spun into fool’s gold it is simply astounding!

Wall Street doesn’t have a financial crisis – it has a credibility crisis.

Government doesn’t have the answer – it caused all the problems.

Politicians aren’t statesmen any more, except for a precious few, - they are ignorant liars.

If only the ballot box would truly reflect the current electorate anger in this country next week, we would be well on the way to fixing much of what is broken. But I fear our republic has slipped too far towards a democracy for such a quick fix.

I challenge the patriotism to our republic of anyone who votes for government to put money in his pocket for any reason. That is not the purpose of government and it will kill our republic.

I challenge the patriotism to our republic of anyone who votes for believers in the Godless religion of socialism, communism, or the resultant fascism above the freedom of our well-founded constitutional republic. If you can’t smell their stench, then stay away from the polls.

America has been sold to the highest bidder, and that bidder has always been an unscrupulous government driven and protected by financial interests the people cannot even recognize. Government bailout is worse than an oxymoron – it is an incredible lie. Government sellout is the truth.

Government has sold capitalism down the river, bought more and more slavery in exchange for our freedoms, and still insists we have a duty to fix our national debt by being “patriotic” and paying more of our dwindling personal wealth in taxes.

Some of you may be thinking that I have put an awful lot on your plate here – an awful lot to swallow. If you can’t swallow it, imagine how those of us who have had it forced down our throats for years feel. I am not a young person and much of the groundwork for the present conditions was laid before I was even born, however, much more has transpired in my adult lifetime. The fundamentals of the American experiment resulted in a unique culture. That culture is under constant attack from within by the very progeny of that culture, due, in part, to an overwhelming acceptance of collectivism over individualism. That, my friends, is very hard to swallow!

Unbelievable pressure is put on leaders in our country to navigate toward a “middle ground” that truly does not exist in a free society, for that middle ground is a lawless land of non-commitment. Described in political terms as “leaning across the aisle”, they must not commit to any view as right or wrong – except the views of those who do profess knowledge of such. Moderates, as they are politically called, can assign blame to anyone who is not, therefore, a moderate. That would, by very definition, include all individualists as “wrong” by those embracing a moderate stance.

The more one professes to be tolerant, the less he is likely to tolerate from others who do not believe like he does. At least that is what I have observed. It is the one thing that early on divorced my adherence to any organized religion. I do not want membership in any group that defines right from wrong for me. But, by the same token, I do not believe in “sitting on the fence” on the subject.

That most of America’s founders were “religious” and adhered to a strong belief in God cannot be rationally argued – yet there are those who still try to make an argument against fact. This has gotten in the way of understanding the principles of intent in the founding of our government. It continues to eat away at the fundamentals of importance in our American culture, destroying individualism, punishing achievement, and nurturing ignorance.

Two things – apathy and/or fear, cause ignorance. Fear breeds the acceptance of the unacceptable. Apathy breeds contempt for everything. Both breed misery, despair, and general unhappiness in what can be an otherwise happy society.

It is of no concern to me if my neighbor is suffering if I, personally, am not willing to help him. I cannot truly help a suffering neighbor by organizing a radical group to force others to take care of his problem. Socialism forces everyone into victim hood so that government can spread its hand of control over every aspect of life itself. The personal help I should feel compelled to give a suffering neighbor is withheld in lieu of a government compelled duty for everyone else to help him, therefore he suffers much more as he waits for that collective help. In an ideal and individualist world, helping real need is second nature and instantaneous. In an individualist world, few people want or need that much nor do they feel like victims.

Truth and trust, charity and responsibility – these are virtues. They occur naturally in human behavior that has been well groomed from childhood by caring parents. These are not things to be mandated by collectivist philosophies, which would have children be educated from an early age to accept a duty to serve others by forsaking their individual potentials, thus instilling no values to speak of. Virtue has been replaced by ignorance, through fear and apathy, that everything can and should be mandated to insure everyone against failure.

This has never and will never work because it goes against human nature, natural law, and the very grain of good citizenship.

Someone recently told me that the reason he was a Democrat is because Republicans only want to take money from the middle class to “line the pockets of the rich” and that caused all our problems. This is from an intelligent, educated person. That has always been the number one talking point among Democrats, and now half the country is convinced of it.

The liberal collectivist view of America is and always has been negative. That is because Americanism was founded on individualist principles, which see rights balanced by personal responsibilities. Liberals see rights without any understanding of individual responsibilities – only collective ones.

Right Answer

One valuable question came up in the second tightly scripted, so-called town hall presidential debate. You remember – the debate that was described by almost everyone as “boring” and not very enlightening. That question was worth all the rest. Each candidate was asked, “do you see healthcare as a right, responsibility, or entitlement?” John McCain had the right answer – Barack Obama did not.

I don’t think enough people spend any time considering the differences in individualism and collectivism especially as it relates to healthcare in this country. If our healthcare system is ever truly nationalized, as Obama would like to see it, God help us! It has already been bastardized by too much of a surrogate payer philosophy through insurance regulation, but put the government in charge, as the main payer, and the preconceived “right” to healthcare will dissolve before the astonished eyes of those who voted for it! It will become instead a mandate, a sub-quality product and service, and, worse than that, a highly rationed commodity. As an individualist, I can easily see how dangerous it is to turn my healthcare responsibility over to others to make all my choices for me.

I don’t want to dwell on any one subject too long, but consider this: “healthcare” was not even a large part of what was considered basic human needs not so very long ago. Now, however, a person who does not have “regular checkups” by his “personal physician” placing him “under a doctor’s constant care” is considered stupid and irresponsible. If we do not take our every ill to the medical profession for diagnosis and treatment, we are scolded. We are expected to be on multiple prescription medications by the time we near “retirement age” – whenever that is! Medicare confiscations start when a young person gets his first job and continue as long as he works – no matter how healthy or unhealthy he is. Employers must provide additional “insurance” confiscation opportunities to their employees to cover any possible healthcare need or the company is not seen as responsible or a desirable workplace.

If one actually gets through life with little need of healthcare, and thus the insurance expenditures that have been coerced from him, it makes no difference in the grand scheme of things. Collectivism rewards only victims after all.

All of this has done much damage to the medical services industry, but how many folks actually look at it in this way? Collectivists may wail about “individual choice” but they seldom want the individual responsibility that comes with it. Court dockets are flooded with a constant stream of frivolous lawsuits as a direct result of this flight from responsibility. It is always somebody else’s fault if your personal choices result in any harmful circumstance. For this reason, physicians and hospitals must carry huge amounts of malpractice insurance. Is there any wonder why medical costs have skyrocketed over the years? This is just one reason. The “cost of doing business” in America these days prices the product out of the range of most average citizens, so they, too, must be subsidized by insurance. Healthcare is a vicious circle. Nationalizing it will only make it worse – and personal choices will become a thing of the past.

Educated But Still ignorant

Nowhere has the monstrosity of an overbearing government been more obvious than in the education system in America. Speaking out against mandated public education is seen as government blasphemy, but it must be done if we are to regain lost freedoms. Government has its hand in every institution of learning in this country – public and private. The system is abysmal, and the product has been far more ignorance than should ever be tolerated by an individualist society. The education system should be called, “no individualist left behind” because the net of “mandated education” has been so well camouflaged that even the most individualist of thinkers has a hard time avoiding the compulsion buy-in factor.

Grooming the good citizen for stewardship of individual liberties, through lessons of truth and virtue, for sound control of government has given way to molding a collective mindset for government control of the individual through the vehicle of compulsory education. I realize that’s a mouthful, but putting it more simply would not do the facts justice. Suffice it to say, the original intent was lost in the eerie mandate that education has become.

If you asked anyone a hundred years ago or today why a good education is necessary, the answers would probably be pretty much the same. Education was and is the ticket to a better life. It is the purchase of the ticket that has drastically changed. Few young people love learning any more. It is seen as a necessity, and even then, only to the degree that is absolutely necessary to “get the grade.” The ability to learn is one of the true gifts of life, but it is so often lost on today’s youth.

We cannot blame this all on the learners though. Teaching has almost become a lost art. There is a big difference between teaching and indoctrinating, and far too many in the profession spend their time indoctrinating their students (away from American fundamentals) instead of teaching them the subjects they need to learn. A good teacher imparts the ability for students to think for themselves. An indoctrinator leads his students toward accepting a certain point of view, which is usually with sectarian or partisan influence.

It is up to parents to both teach and indoctrinate their own children, and thus, be a strong influence on those entrusted to the continuing education of their children, but far too many parents have either been misinformed themselves, or they just don’t care to expend the effort.

Is it any wonder why so many professors in the institutions of higher learning in America are hardcore socialists and even communists? Collectivism is winning and American fundamentalism has almost lost.

Separating What?

In case no one is paying close attention these days, the “separation of church and state” has ceased to be in America. All it took to destroy any semblance of said “separation” was to dangle the carrot of “tax-free status” out in front of the church. Never mind the strings attached – thou shalt not speak ill of the state to thy congregations, or the state will snatch away the tax-free carrot. Therefore when the state defends things that are indefensible in the eyes of the church, pastors are bound and gagged against pointing it out. Does that sound like “separation of church and state” to you?

Admittedly this is where it gets hard for me to illuminate the veil of ignorance because of my own views on organized religion, but bear with me and I will do my best. In our society churches are absolutely necessary, and many of them do great work and benefit the community of humanity in numerous ways. Many good people need the close-knit organization of like-minded people that churches offer, and they are more than willing to tithe to provide support. They are not willing, nor should they be, to see these tithes taxed if they exercise their freedom of speech to their own congregations. Hence, fear of this has kept too many of the organized followers, especially of Christianity, silent on the radical takeover of moral principles by socialist theorists.

Does anyone still see any “separation” of church and state?

On the separation of God from humanity, the examples are staggering. From the disintegrating American family through the institutions of socialist learning, America’s separation from God is sweeping in its scope and terrible in its effect. It has turned a great nation, founded on Judeo-Christian principles, into a primordial ooze just waiting to evolve into pure evil. While that may be colorful language, I assure you it is quite truthful.

Until we, as a people can stand up and defend our moral principles against the snickering ignorance that will not defend individual rights, we will continue to sink deeper in the muck and mire of greed, jealousy, and immorality. We cannot use that which has provided us with vast wealth and independence to buy our way into an imagined world of equality without any responsibility to morality.

The Story Of the Moral

Somebody one day had to wake up and decide what behaviors were “right” and “good” and what behaviors were “wrong” and “bad” and then communicate those opinions to others. If we adhere strictly to the theories that humanity sprang from an evolutionary, cell building, accident that took our ancestors through each and every “stage” of life and then deposited us in an upright position with thoughts and knowledge in our heads, we should have an idea just who that “somebody” was, or, at least, who some of the other ones he shared his thoughts with were. Right? So, how could the concept of morals take shape in such an evolutionary creature with absolutely no foundation for such beliefs?

Atheistic theorists tell us that creationism, (or intelligent design for the more squeamish moralists), is an invention of man to explain the unexplainable. Well, okay, but I still say, who was the inventor, and why did he deem it necessary to explain anything – especially in moral terms?

Religion is a crutch. How often have you heard that one? The disabled among us use crutches, so that must mean that the inventor of religion was disabled? When confronted with so much that he couldn’t explain, the best thing he could come up with is some sort of a “Creator” theory? The spin off from that would become the foundations for moral behavior, but the idea that life, especially human life, didn’t just happen accidentally is seen by the God cynics as little better than an affliction.

I guess that explains the current attempts to separate God from any kind of moral thought or government. If anyone accepts the religion is a crutch theory, or that creationism is bogus after that explanation, I’ve got some swampland in the desert to discuss.

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness."

George Washington

I could never be ashamed of my country any more than I could be ashamed of my belief in God, but there are far too many people that have been given power to direct our government that do constantly apologize for America and shun her fundamental founding. I have pity as well as disdain for any American who does not thank God every day for his citizenship in this great country. We are a country of individualists that can only be subverted by a government of collectivists who have been able to convince more people than not that fundamental Americanism is based on outmoded principles.

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