Tidbits from Eternity Road
There are some good writers out there, and some great ones. This is from one of the great ones; Eternity Road’s own Curmudgeon Emeritus in a wide ranging essay from Tony Bennett to Trust:
“After two centuries of blessedness, America has entered the hour of the power of darkness:
- Our military is being emasculated as we speak, with funding cuts to deprive it of men and machines, and legal entanglements to ensure that no soldier in the field can ever be certain that he won’t be tried for murder by civilians, or worse, by foreigners.
- Our alliances are faltering as no one ever expected, as our chief executive kowtows to the worst men in the world and fails to uphold America’s actions in its own interest.
- Our politicians are interested solely in getting elected and staying in office, and will do anything, sacrifice anyone, and betray any principle of right, to achieve those goals.
- Our economy is being bled to death by layer after layer of taxation, regulation, legal mandates, and outright nationalizations, nearly all intended to benefit some provincial interest some gaggle of politicians counts on for support.
- Our currency has been so debased that the other nations of the world, fooled over the decades into accepting mountains of it for their wares, are getting ready to write it off.
- Our schools have become cesspits of socialist indoctrination and multicultural propaganda, where a child saying grace over his lunch is subject to harassment as a bigot.
- Our cities and communities are weakening under the assaults of illegal immigration, eminent-domain attacks on property rights, forced injection of “refugees” who hate America and all it stands for, and the use of insane lawsuits to prevent development in the name of “saving the planet.”
- Our churches — the ones that still respect God and value freedom — are steadily being muzzled by the moral and cultural relativists, the “inclusionists,” and the Muslims.
- Our women are largely persuaded that killing an unborn baby constitutes a “woman’s right” and a “safe medical procedure.”
- Our arts have become unfathomably vile.
- Every right we have is under sustained, determined assault.
- Our people are losing faith in one another, in themselves, in their futures, and the futures of their children.
Soon the national motto will no longer be “E pluribus unum,” but rather “Sauve qui peut.”
We did it to ourselves, by squandering one another’s trust.”
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We did it to ourselves..sad and horrically true!:(
Indeed. “We” have done it to ourselves.
“In a democracy (’rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history are in the majority and dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance.”-third world county’s corollary to Santayana’s Axiom
ANd that’s one reason the Founders designed the federal government to (hopefully) avoid the worst problems of democracy–as a representative republic with democratic elements (direct representation of the People in the House) balanced .in large part by direct representation of the States’ governments in the Senate. It’s the reason that I view the 17th amendment as one of the worst steps taken in our history.
I agree: “the 17th amendment as one of the worst steps taken in our history.” Likewise, I think efforts to get rid of the Electoral College are either misguided or disingenuous, on the part of those who are in favor of a majoritarian democracy. Federalism was designed to be a system of checks and balances to prevent a democratic tyranny. The Founders were well acquainted with the history of the ancient’s experiments in democracy.
Thank you, GM. You’re far too kind.