What Might History
Say of Us?
Colonel Dan, SASS Life # 24025
What will history say about our stewardship of this great American
experiment? It’s been said that events require a hundred years before their
impact on history can accurately be evaluated and conclusions drawn. Although I understand that view, it doesn’t
stop me, a rank amateur from speculating.
Here are some snippets of what I believe Americans could be
reading in the 22nd century about 20th/21st
Century America—if
recorded by historians, not revisionists.
* First and foremost, I’m convinced that future historians
will write that grassroots Americans were the most industrious, generous and
self-sacrificing people on Earth. They
gave of themselves in every way—their fortunes in helping the down trodden and
their lives in freeing the oppressed around the world and it was they that made
America
the greatest country in the history of mankind.
* Unfortunately, they’ll also write that America’s
leaders completely lost control of the borders, diluting their culture and
resources out of existence. Although the
danger signs were clearly present throughout the 20th century and
well into the 21st, they couldn’t separate themselves from the
concept of politically correct multiculturalism, the corporate desire for
“cheap labor” and the fear of offending one group or another—even to the point
of jeopardizing their own cultural existence.
They allowed far too many foreigners unrestricted access to what they
thought was unlimited wealth, resources and resiliency of their way of life,
never considering the price that must eventually be paid when the bills came
due. Their attempts to accommodate all
actually evolved into unprecedented levels of political pandering. This ultimately proved disastrous to the long-term
health and well being of the country’s future and their most precious gift of
freedom was ultimately turned against them.
They allowed foreigners extreme, almost unlimited freedom of movement
and action, turning a blind eye to the actions of those that had no real
allegiance to or interest in the country—even to the extent of creating the
perfect opportunity for terrorists to use the country’s own liberty and resources
against her, inflicting tremendous death and destruction in multiple ways.
* America
was too globally oriented, spreading themselves far too thin around the world
in an attempt to have their hands in the business of practically every country
on earth—well intentioned or otherwise.
This at the same time they were cutting the resources necessary to
enforce such a policy of globalism—their military. Many countries around the world resented
America’s attempts to influence events and cultures even when accompanied by
huge sums of foreign aid. The world bit
and resented the hand that helped free and feed them but American politicians
just didn’t learn. They ignored their
founder’s advice to avoid entangling foreign alliances and they eventually paid
the price for that ignorance.
* Their Presidents and Congress inexplicably lost concern
for their own country and ignored their solemn oath of office to preserve, protect
and defend. They were far more concerned
with power, pandering, self-enrichment and globalism than they were about America. In the end they undermined their own country,
its sovereignty and the constitution more than any group or single event in
that nation’s history.
* Modern liberal philosophy as practiced by both political
parties in the 20th and 21st century irreparably
converted the original American dream of 1776 to a socialistic nightmare. “Progressive” politicians were thinly veiled
socialists and communists who were intent on transforming America at
every opportunity through legislative incrementalism and seeding the courts at
all levels with judges that actively legislated from the bench. As Americans grew richer, lazier and less
concerned with individual participation in the political process, the left was
tacitly and sometimes eagerly given greater influence in determining America’s
course. They eventually took over as
people looked increasingly toward government for solutions to everyday
problems. Americans were given a grand
republic but couldn’t keep it.
* There was never a proper accounting by government for the
funds collected and expended or how any piece of legislation adhered to the
established constitution. The people
seemed to be willing to overlook violations of their own constitution if it was
accompanied by promises of additional handouts from the public treasury.
* As Jefferson feared, the dream of ’76 mutated into the
nightmare of the 21st century as they allowed government to grow
unchecked in an ill-advised search for a paternalistic government that would
provide more and more of what was once considered personal
responsibilities. Once people discovered
they could successfully vote funds into their own pockets, the dream was
doomed.
* Americans ate their own and seemed to relish in
self-flagellation—particularly with those in the press. There was a period in American history when
it seemed to be a sign of “journalistic enlightenment” that every problem,
conflict or political struggle in the world was reported as America’s
fault. Even the terrorism of 9-11 and
its aftermath was written about in many circles as the fault of America herself—many
Americans, unable to see the very real importance of unity in fighting an
external threat, sided with the terrorist organization responsible for the
attack against their own country! This
was an unbelievable phenomenon in the political history of mankind.
* Somehow the concept of freedom of religion morphed into
freedom from religion and God was run out of America in the twisted name of
preserving the right of people to worship Him freely. Prayer was actually prohibited in many public
events and places in the name of preserving religious freedom! This phenomenon will require many more years
of study to adequately understand this “illogical logic.”
* Numerous deceitful acts of government back then were sold
to the average American using the ruse that it was for the good of the
children. In one tragic example, countless Americans were duped into
surrendering their right to keep and bear arms on the pretext that a gun-free
society was safer for the children.
Unfortunately, they paid a heavy price for this shortsightedness. Defenseless and unable to resist criminals
and unscrupulous government agencies, many perished. A once strong spirited and independent people
went down without a struggle—unarmed, intimidated and defenseless. Had it not been for a small but staunchly
loyal group of Traditional Constitutionalists who refused to surrender their
arms and who upheld the original values of the constitution, America would
have been lost.
I know there are other significant extracts from America’s future
history books but these are just a few from my saddle.
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