Naming Names and Kicking Ass

 Naming Names and Kicking Ass

We used to be a nation. We used to believe in working together as a team for the good of our nation. When hard times occurred or war was imposed upon us, we sacrificed our freedoms and fought together to make this country not only survive, but prosper.

When World War II loomed before us, there were individualists who advocated joining the Axis, Fascists countries, including Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh. They preached the futility of opposing such military power as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini had built up. In spite of such naysayers, millions of people volunteered to join the US military, give up their freedom and years of their lives to help their country win the war.

 We lost all that somewhere along the line.  

Now we have millions of people who are so concerned with their personal freedoms that they refuse to do anything to help their nation as it might cause them a little loss of comfort. They wave flags of the losers of our wars as they claim to be “patriots.” They attack the very foundations of our government, and invent fabulous conspiracies to cast doubt on the institutions of government, such as free and fair elections. None of them will lift a finger to work to make our elections better. They would rather stand outside and bitch about stolen elections.

In the 1980’s Ronald Reagan was our president. Instead of leading our nation and inspiring the nation, he abolished the rule that required news organizations to present both side of any issue. Long ago that rule was instituted because they realized that if only one side is presented it was not news but propaganda.

He allowed Rupert Murdoch to immigrate from Australia and conferred citizenship on him and allowed him to start his own media empire, with Fox News, Sinclair radio and many newspapers, all right wing conservative, with never any positive coverage of the liberal teamwork that made this nation invincible.

He disparaged the concept that Abe Lincoln propounded, the we are a government “of the people, by the people, for the people.” and instead insisted that government was the enemy of the people.

He elevated such people as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, who spoke against the idea of following the leaders of our government to maintain the strength of our nation. They preached the ideologies of Ayn Rand, whose insidious philosophy excluded any motivation except what is good for yourself, to hell with everybody else.

Altruism is now the worst evil.

Franklin D.. Roosevelt had sons in WWII. Harry Truman was a GI in WWI, Eisenhower was a leader in WWII. The Kennedys lost a son in WWII. Even the powerful and rich considered it their duty to sacrifice for the nation.

Now too many make a hero of a man who dodged military service, and whose family has never served in the military for five generations. He is lauded for his ability to conduct a business that mostly involved screwing others out of their money and property. Yeah, Donald Trump.

Now our country is in chaos. It’s every man for himself. Kill everyone that doesn’t agree with you. Make up conspiracy theories that tear down the nation and our government and our elections.

The Lord help us when China decides they are big enough to take over the number one spot. We gave it up years ago. They march together. We run in all directions. 

That’s as plain as I can make it.