The Tragic Consequences of a Politically Dumb-Downed Free Society

Johann Wolfgang, a German philosopher of the late 1700's and early 1800's once stated, "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free." As I witness the occurrences in today's America I can't help but get a chill in the truism of that statement. One needs to go no further than observe the spectacle that has become the United States' Presidential Election, and the political process and environment as a whole.

I can not be the only one who is wondering as I listen to and observe these candidates, first, are these the best that such a great nation has to offer? and two, just who are they representing? Because they aren't speaking to my concerns that is for sure. Yet, the US citizenry has to engage in the process of having to choose between the lesser of two bad choices so as not to feel totally helpless and feel that we actually have a voice. But, if it is just a feeling that we get, what is the true point other than an exercise in insanity? While America is experiencing unprecedented job and technology exodus, while becoming the world's importer nation, and with a nation's financial solvency is on life supports with a preacher at the bedside, the current candidates speak of nothing to bring back or retain high paying jobs, return to being a producing nation, nor the retention of our technological advantage that we have enjoyed since the end of the last world war. But, they speak vociferously of the need to raise taxes and to prepare for the "global economy" and "globalization", that we should not attempt to look out more for ourselves - they call it "protectionism", and that we should just get accustomed to a lower standard of lifestyle.

While America is incrementally being colonized by Mexico, costing the US taxpayers greater than $400 Billion per year, the candidates seem only too prepared and willing to enable illegal immigrants to determine who is elected. The candidates, particularly the democratics, hold debates on how to reward illegal immigrants with rights of lawful citizens and have televised meetings in the homes of illegal immigrants, as is the case of Hillary Clinton. While other politicians are forced to resign due to alleged relations with prostitutes or catches political fire for possibly being homosexual. While Communist China grows in dominance, financially and militarily, to the point that the American people and the US government itself is negatively exposed as at no other time to the point that it threatens our very existence, no mention or no alarm is expressed to the American people by any of the political leaders. These three issues alone has capsulated into the worst economic drain and depression that has not been seen in America since our creation. Yet, the politicians can only seek to excuse our situation by blaming the housing crisis or some other quick and mindless excuse. Take away our ability to earn high wages, take away our ability to produce goods for ourselves and the world, at the same time allow a flood of third-world immigrants, leaves us with little or no means to pay a house note, no matter how big or small the amount. Yet the current Presidential candidates are talking about everything but a plan to place America back on top of the world, only to speed our ascension.

What makes this extraordinary circus that has become the US election of President so amazingly astonishing is that the Founders never desired or conceived it to be this way. The position of President was only meant to be that of commander and chief of the US armed forces in times of war, the figure head of the US government to engage with foreign leaders, and the head of the Execute Branch. In fact there is no provision in the US Constitution for the popular election of the President amongst the people of America. The President was to be elected by the Congress. And in fact he still is, via the Electoral College, not by popular vote of the people -despite popular belief. But, due to the lack of this knowledge amongst us, there has been talk of doing away with the Electoral College in favor of a strictly popular vote election. Absurd!

Over generations and generations, from the "New Deal", and the social compact with the American people, to the PATRIOT Act, and the federalized police state over the American people, we as a nation have arrived to a time that the Executive Branch, via the US president, has achieved unprecedented, and unconstitutional, amount of power to the point that the position is viewed by the people as the focal-point of power, that it has the ability and right to make law, rather then the Congress. It has gotten to the point the president is allowed to not only write law, through "Executive Orders" and "Signing Statements", but ignore law allowing mass illegal immigration to go unabated and establishing agreements with foreign countries to surrender our nation's sovereignty without the consent of the Congress, as is occurring with the establishing of the North American Union. These matters are the utmost critical in nature simply due to the fact that the Executive Branch is solely empowered by the Constitution to execute and enforce the laws of the United States. In short, the people's elected representatives can pass all of the laws that they want, and the president can choose to alter them, after signing them, as with Signing Statements, or decide to not fully enforce them, if at all - as is the case in the enablement of the Mexican colonization of America.

But, the proper functioning and relationship that is supposed to exist goes mostly unrealized by the American people due to the blatant lack of knowledge and or understanding of the Constitution of United States and civics. According to a recent study by the National Center for Education Statistics, only 47 percent of high school seniors knew U.S. history and civics, while only 14 percent did a little better. Unlike when I was growing up, classes in civics or government are not required course in most schools. A study by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute discovered that only 45.9 percent of those surveyed knew that the sentence "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" is in the Declaration of Independence. Without a true and clear understanding of how we as Americans became Americans and what has allowed our great republic to prosper greater then any nation over the past 200 plus years, that it is not due to governmental blessings, but the blessings established via the Constitution that imposes restrictions on the government while recognizing our inalienable rights, then we are liable to cannibalize into a nation unrecognizable to our organic self. When we see nothing truly special in being American, that we are comparable to people of Europe, Mexico, and China, we see our republican form of government no better then that of a socialist, communist, or dictatorship, then we will cease the desire to protect our property, our rights, or our country from those how seeks to take it from us due to the lack of perceived value. And we may elect people and demand them to act in a manner that is not only detrimental to ourselves, but to our beloved nation - such as allowing the Congress to spend billions more then it brings in and borrow millions, at interest, to give to the taxpayers, and even those who do not pay taxes, in a "stimulus" check, that we will have to pay back or redistribute wealth from some citizens based on their capacity to those simply based on their need - socialistic principle - thereby punishing the producers and rewarding those who only consume.

The Presidential election of 2008 will be the most important since the election of George Washington after the war for America's independence. This election will for the first time present the citizenry with a choice of whether this will republic rushes into socialism and redistribute the nation's wealth to those that produce none, as with the democrats, or continue a asinine military intervention policy, costing the American people blood and the US economy trillions while depleting our cupboard to our enemies, that will destroy us as it did Rome, whether we will become a nation of squabbling nationalities, or whether this republic remains a free, prosperous, and a sovereigntly independent nations united. But my fear is so long as the masses are unable to draw a causation of being an importer nation based on service jobs with a devaluing fiat currency equals high cost for goods imported, including everything from oil to food, and exacerbating a grotesquely imbalanced trade position, and the producing nations dictating terms of international agreements. Also, that the exporting of high paying jobs and facilities while importing low skilled and low educated workers drives wages down and increases cost of government to provide basic services, leaving less money circulating in the economy for reinvestments and less money for Americans to feed our families and spend and save. All of this adds up to decreasing quality and standard of life that we have for ourselves and our posterity. We will soon wake up in a nation split on nationality and our political leaders having to not act in the best interest of the nation as whole but as one with splintered interests and needs. We need to realize that the government creates no wealth. Though it [the government] can make it possible for citizens to create wealth, it can only spend it, and or redistribute it. If it [the government] has to spend $1 Trillion more on services, or additional expense, like socialized or "universal" healthcare, that money is coming out of the pockets of the taxpayer, somehow, someway, we as a people will always have shackles on our ankles and wrists. And if we care more about the color of the politician's skin, their gender, how attractive he or she is, or if he or she can say the right words at the right time to make us feel emotionally secure, as opposed to caring more about his or her character, morality, unwavering love, and loyalty to this republic and the Constitution that will secure and protect our freedoms and liberties from all who dare to threaten them - foreign or domestic - then we will not have a America the is free to hand to our next generation.

The safest thing on the streets of America can no longer be a text book. Unlike when the Communist Russians launched Sputnik, President John Kennedy challenged the nation to learn the sciences and rise to defeat the Soviets in space with a trip to the moon, today the Communist Chinese not only place satellites in space, but aim missiles at our nation, challenges US military navel vessels on the seas, and poisons Americans and our pets, the US government's reaction is only to send all of America's infrastructure and technology to them and dumb down the US education system, thereby leaving the republic naked physically and mentally. If the politicians refuse to sound the alarm for America to awaken her majesty, her might to soar above the clouds of storm and turbulence, then we must awaken them. We must always be educated enough to be vigilant over those who we entrust in protecting and observing our rights in order to ensure or rights and liberties for our prosperity and to posterity. Thomas Jefferson probably said it best when he said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be." At the end of the day the choice is ours.

The events of September 11, 2001 can be no more tragic then a US President who strips the American people bare of their freedoms, liberties, means of production, their nation's sovereignty, and prostitutes America's values, beliefs, and soul to foreigner nations at will, with an American people setting in silence or wantingly ignorant.