WAKING UP FROM THE AMERICAN DREAM
by Darren Weeks
April 12, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
Thomas Edison once said, “Genius is two percent inspiration and ninety-eight percent perspiration.”
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Americans were “inspired” by the promise of a better life. A wife, a house, two cars, and children to whom it would all be passed down were the “inspiration” which compelled common men to spend long hours toiling in fields, shops, factories and other places, enduring hardships and pain, in hope of fulfilling a better life for themselves and their family. Their “perspiration” in pursuit of what would later become known as “the American dream” is what propelled America into a great industrial empire that by the early 20th century had become the envy of the world. It was American “inspiration” and “perspiration” which produced numerous technological marvels which continue to impact the world to this day. We saw the development of the automobile, the assembly line, the first silent movie, the radio, which gave way to the television, the telegraph which gave way to the telephone, and eventually the Internet.
During the 20th century, we were told and taught that America was the land of “opportunity.” We were promised that we could be dirt poor, possess nothing but the clothes on our back and a dogged determination to work hard, and nothing would be impossible. Many foreigners bought into the promise of the “dream” and applied for citizenship. Others drown on makeshift rafts, risked firing ranges and various means of torture in an effort to reach our shores, seek refuge and escape the clutches of totalitarian, authoritarian, and communist rule in pursuit of “the American dream.”
As the 20th century wore on, there were many warning signs along the way which should have awakened the people to the reality that something was amiss with their republic. Long forgotten was the veiled warning of Benjamin Franklin when, on that fateful day in September of 1787, at the door of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, he told the anxious Mrs. Powel that we’ve given you “a republic, if you can keep it.”
The 20th century brought the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, the Marxist income tax, and the first world war leading to a League of Nations. We had another world war, a new and “improved” United Nations to bless us with permanent “peace,” and we were promptly and “peacefully” led across the pond to a Korean “police action,” which cost tens of thousands of American lives. We had a correlating Cold War, a decade of drugs, hippies, and orgies, and a new bloodbath in Vietnam. Along the way, we were introduced to a skyrocketing national debt, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, giving birth to a World Trade Organization, a North American Free Trade Agreement, and the subsequent destruction of the American industrial backbone. Limping along on what we now were told was a “knowledge-based” and “service economy,” Americans endured the unrelenting assaults of government land grabs by way of National Parks, monuments, nature preserves, buffer zones, conservation easements and sanctuaries, World Heritage sites, biosphere reserves, and a UN blueprint to micromanage all life on planet earth, Agenda 21. We had the “Great Depression,” the “New Deal,” the “Great Society,” and a president who trumpeted the dawn of a “New World Order.”
But through the ins and outs, the ups and downs, the turmoils and conflicts, with only brief reprieves of relative “peace,” Americans grieved, wept, mourned, loved, and lost. But they did not govern. They did not become stewards of the republic, as Franklin had so instructed. Instead they chose to follow each conflict and assault with the burial their dead, the counting of their great losses, and the continued pursuit of that elusive concept of promise — life, wealth, prosperity, and the pursuit of a temporary happiness — the concept they only understood as “the American dream.”
The 21st century began with a bang. An orchestrated act of “terrorism” turned the world into a den of bogeymen. Suddenly, we were given a dire warning: a myriad of Mohammads, camel-riding cave dwellers with flight manuals and box cutters in tote, a bearded CIA asset named Bin Laden, whose family just happened to be business partners with the White House executive — all purportedly “wanted us dead.” We were told we were in a new war for our “freedom,” but that we would have to relinquish that freedom to remain safe. Again, Americans ignored the words of Franklin when he admonished that “they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” We were groped, scanned, databased, profiled, and surveilled. But Americans didn’t worry. They flew their communist Chinese-made American flags, sported their slave-labor-manufactured bumper stickers full of crying eagles and patriotic slogans, and opted to leave the job of “government” to psychotic professionals. They punched the clock, worked their overtime, and pressed harder in their pursuit of that euphoric and rapturous imagination known to them as “the American dream.”
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They were told the Constitution was not a “suicide pact,” and that because “people” wanted to kill them, their finest must be sent off to be killed. They learned that the unthinkable could be justified, the unjustifiable made rational, and that the rational could be conned into believing that the end justifies the means. They were given a climate crisis, an energy crisis, a food safety crisis, a banking crisis, and a housing crisis. They were transformed from a world of subdivisions and McMansions, to a world of tent cities and shantytowns. They bailed out savings and loans and mortgage companies, they bailed out insurance companies and automobile companies. They bailed out international companies as well as domestic companies. They have bailed and bailed and now they are all “underwater.”
The American people have witnessed the unadulterated looting of our monetary resources, while the debt is transferred to the backs of our children and grandchildren to the tune of trillions. We’ve watched as suit-wearing parasitic leeches, inside the District of Criminals beltway, have voted 8-inch thick “stimulus” bills into law, containing environmental, social and socialist projects — everything from advancing government healthcare, to giving jobs to illegal immigrants, to reversing welfare reform policies of the 90’s, and much, much more.
To say that the rate at which the federal mob is inflating the money supply, stealing our labor, and swelling the national debt is “alarming” would be the understatement of the age. Couple that with the ever-increasing unemployment lines, and the hundreds of thousands of newly homeless, and you have finally managed to concoct the perfect recipe to capture the attention of the some most hardened deniers of the conspiracy to take down America.
Hence, we see the dazed, emotionless appearances on the faces of the teaming masses, wiping the sleep from their bleary eyes, attempting to reconcile the long-cherished promise of “the American Dream” with their dire reality — unemployment, poverty, crime, gang violence, drug cartels, pending social unrest and rampant anti-social behavior, disappearing borders, government surveillance and databasing, identity theft, and massive taxation and inflation.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. America was supposed to be the vibrant example of freedom and prosperity — the example of how liberty and a free market could pave the way to the impossible, an impossible known as “the American dream.”
Alas, the wagons of communism are circling. The dogs of war are waiting to bite. We are living the history of our country’s demise. It is the systematic and deliberate elimination of the American empire — the slow, and torturous death by a thousand slices of treachery from within the dark halls of power.
Years from now, if the international banking establishment has their way, what will the historians write of America’s departure from the principles upon which she was founded? And what will they say of the morality of the American people? What will they say of her pre-occupation with all things trivial and irrelevant? Will they write of an electorate that was too fascinated with the plight of Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton to be bothered with the animated contest of liberty? Will the words be penned that Hollywood whores and trash TV took priority over preserving our wealth, our freedoms, and our sacred honor?
And what of our posterity? What will be their responses when they learn that the heritage we left them was one of bankruptcy and indebtedness, with no freedom, no property rights, no privacy, no peace, and eternal enslavement to a world governing body in the name of the “common good?”
The night has been long and costly to you, America. The warmth and comfort with which you have long slept, is finally over. While many tried to warn you of the dangers that lie ahead, you chose to turn away, refusing to heed the warnings. The comfort of your slumber and the pursuit of “the dream” prevailed as constitutionalists cried, grieved, and tried to attract your attention. Many warned you of betrayal, lost freedoms, and the bankruptcies that lie ahead. Still, you steadfastly refused to listen. Your head firmly implanted upon your pillow of apathetic complacency, you slept. How often you rolled your eyes, made fun, laughed, ridiculed, and called them unflattering names! They were the despised “conspiracy theorists,” the rejected “kooks” and “nutcases” of your tidy and blissfully-ignorant world. Do you still feel the mirth of your mockery?
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Pinch yourself. Splash some water upon your face. Put on some strong coffee to brew, while it is still within your grasp to afford. Bundle up, against the cold, bitter blast that threatens your senses as you are blinded by the glaring daylight of reality. It’s morning in America, and you’ve finally awakened — the end of “the American dream.” Welcome to the “camp” of the patriots.
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