In these most uncertain hours some Americans wonder how our nation got to this point politically and as a society. They wonder with concern where America is headed. The question is: are things in our country going to get better or worse? The problem is even agreeing on what is better or worse.
One definition of better or worse involves the freedom of citizens to make their own decisions. This measures the intrusive reach of government into our lives. Some citizens give up their personal freedoms in trade for being in the care of our government. Others are afraid that at some point the government will have no more use for them. The Government might literally kill those citizens who do not allow the government to get stronger. It has happened in other societies.
So there is a divide in our country of citizens very worried and other citizens, in fact, most citizens who seem to be paying no attention at all to the desperate clouds on our horizon. They pray to the God Media and do not believe anything the propaganda Media does not endorse.
It is a most uncertain hour for America. I personally have been through decades of uncertain hours but these hours seem very dangerous. When I was a child our whole world was minutes away from everyone perishing in a nuclear cloud of debris. We practiced nuclear attack drills in schools: under our desks.
These concerns are not as pernicious a threat as complete annihilation. But if I had died decades ago, I would have died a free person. Is it better to die young and free than live long and enslaved? Optimism seems out of place in a society that controls neither its borders nor its currency.
Perhaps what makes this the most uncertain hour is there are no leaders of either party who grasp the dangers to our country. They are still jousting with each other for their own political power and do not face these potential disasters unless they can use the potential disasters as a political stick to strike their opponents.
More people live in slavery by totalitarian societies than live in free societies. Throughout time the natural scheme of the world are societies with no freedom. America is an exception. The incursions of socialist policies into our country represent a danger to our freedom.
But make no mistake; the most serious problem is ourselves. We citizens have traded much of our personal freedoms for political and temporary financial gain. Many citizens try to profit from the notion that a vote for the government will profit them. They enable an all-powerful government.
Sadly we find that when the government takes from one citizen to give to another no one gains except the power of the government. We cut the strings to our foundations and have embraced our jailers. How can we act surprised with what happens to us?
The things that make America great are under attack. Our Oil and Gas Industry are assaulted every day as is our Agriculture Industry, other than the useless Ethanol political Industry. Our military has the utter scorn of most of our leaders and yet dies to protect those who scorn them. The medical profession and our public education in America are being ravaged by the socialist policies that favor big government over people.
If our country had wings to fly most of the people would be plucking at the feathers so that the country crashes to the ground, helpless as all of the other countries under totalitarian rule. Children are no longer under the control of their parents; government has asserted control of all children. Government owns every property in the country and will rent them to the citizens for a yearly fee. All property is the government’s property.
And we look surprised when we are not treated well by the minions of this all-powerful government. We come at the age’s most uncertain hour and no longer sing an American tune.
Dr. Michael Swickard hosts the syndicated radio talk show News New Mexico on six to nine a.m. Monday - Friday on a number of New Mexico radio stations and through streaming. Email: michael@swickard.com
