Laura Hollis identifies ‘an ugly conglomerate’ of influences that viscerally loathe the ‘little guy’
Throughout our nation’s relatively short history, powerful people – kings, communist dictators, tribal tyrants, warmongering corporatists – have always resented America. The reason is simple and biblical: America’s success was proof that free people who exercise self-restraint grounded in Judeo-Christian principles of human dignity and ordered society can govern themselves and flourish, unencumbered by totalitarian control.
But we have grown weak, dependent and easily manipulated. In 2008, when Barack Obama was first running for president, I remarked on the similarities between those proclaiming Obama to be a messiah of sorts and the ancient Israelites’ demand for a king. In the Old Testament book of Samuel, God explains that it is He the people are rejecting as their true king and tells Samuel to warn the Israelites that an earthly king will take their sons for his wars and their daughters for his pleasure. Their property and everything they produce will be taken by the king for his own use and dispensed to his friends as political patronage. “You yourselves,” the Lord warns through Samuel, “will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the Lord will not answer you. …”
In the 14 years since I wrote that column, we have continued to abandon the discipline and self-reliance that made us strong. In so doing, we risk relinquishing to a new generation of egotistical despots the freedoms our Founding Fathers declared to be God-given.
We are not yet slaves, but we are governed by a regime installed by a soft coup, with a senile figurehead teetering on top, surrounded by highly visible people of breathtaking stupidity or mendacity (or both). Behind the scenes, those with the real power disseminate lies to shape public opinion, engender fear, foment outrage, obtain compliance and increase their control.
Meanwhile, they are tightening their stranglehold on America. Everything we see happening is being done deliberately: driving up oil prices – and therefore the price of all goods and services; creating inflation and devaluing the dollar; crippling the supply chain, shuttering American businesses; collapsing the middle class; destroying entire industries; funding and appeasing corrupt regimes (China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela) and launching wars that destabilize and bankrupt nations but create unprecedented wealth for defense contractors and their investors.
Well, that’s very Apoclypitic projection but all nations are clinging to beliefs and select historical narratives that define their cultural collectives and perceived social order. People cling to that for their survival and that of their family genome etc. It’s a basic human biological instinct to procure and prosper that has nothing to do with any of us in the NOW and our complacent encampments. My work has taken me all over the world and I am always surprised to find highly educated professionals that speak three languages in what we’d consider White Trash conditions and they think everyone here is RICH. Just doing business there I had to tip and bribe people and I come home it’s sort of the same. People think a 60k income entitles them to a house and the DREAM of family and prosperity. Recent divisional politics have distracted us from the sad horizon on our doorsteps owned or othewise.
Democrats trying to destroy OUR America , but will NOT succeed !!!
Good Americans FAR Outnumber them !!!! FACT
America’s Enemys are using the Democrat Party to do their Dirty Work & RUIN America from Within
Destroy America from WITHIN !!! They can’t do it ANY other WAY !!! & it is WORKING WELL !!