Posted by
impact on Monday, July 13, 2009 12:00:00 AM
Recently, I've revisited some old friends. I am talking about books I read years ago and the authors. I recent read was "Ceremony of the Innocent" by Taylor Caldwell. The story takes place in the early 1900s and the main character is Ellen, a young and beautiful woman who is so good and innocent, she is mocked and taken advantage of constantly. The character, of course, represents the US that is in the process of being changed forever by the progressives of the day. Incidentally, Hillary called herself a progressive like those of the early 20th century. Obama, of course, is even moreso.
The story is poignant for me since it chronicles the destruction of this country as it was created by the founders. Words and slogans were bandies about to suck in the masses. Compassion, the common good, equality, etc. were used mostly by those seeking to control. Generosity, with other people's money, of course, was being preached by the reformers and progressives. Those progressives LOVED the common man as a class, but despised him in person. They wanted to dole out "equality" in small doses to have the commoners grovel in gratitude and yield power to the elite. This reminds me so much of modern day liberals, it's scary.
It's probably too late to save even a remnant of this country now that a criminal enterprise has all the power and the people have been so dumbed down by an education system this same criminal enterprise has controlled for decades. When I say criminal enterprise, I am referring to the federal and most other government entities in general with the mentality that they "own the people." The difference in the parties, all too often, is 'where they want to arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.' The Dems don't care exactly, as long as they get to choose. The Repubs want it at the stern because someone told them of the iceberg ahead. Those parties are little more than jackals and hyenas fighting over our bones.
Debating specifics of their proposals is akin to arguing over the number of deck chairs, their color and the configuration of the arrangement. Only a few mention that iceberg, but seem to be under the illusion that if they arrange the chairs just so, the iceberg can be avoided even while a huge gash has been ripped into the ship and the hull is filling with water. Maybe they don't want to panic the "passengers."