Why Stand We Here Idle

This divide today amongst Americans is not simply one of issues. Previous to the last few decades our differences were issues oriented. The debates surrounding the ratification of our Constitution and the addition of the Bill Of Rights were legitimate issues. The Civil War was fought over  issues that could be debated as was the Senate's rejection of Wilson's League of Nations. As recently as the two terms of Ronald Reagan we dealt with issues in this nation but things have changed. This administration and the radicals who have taken over America's Democrat party since 1992 travel a different road than their predecessors. They are salesman not statesmen and the wares they peddle are elixirs that do nothing. They have to push for a fast sale every time. They came into America as Johann Tetzel did in Germany in the early sixteenth century, selling indulgences from the purgatory of reality, his ditty could be translated today into As soon as the vote in the ballet box rings...the soul from poverty springs. In this most recent attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of the voting public, the Tea Party is being hauled into the Diet of Worms with a charge of heresy against the command to love your neighbor as yourself. Patrick Henry, previous to uttering his most famous words Give me liberty or give me death said this Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle?  That very special temptation of NFL football is upon us, promising to sooth our aching for manly inspiration but if it takes our minds and our efforts away from the needs of our nation and the future of our children it will be the most sissified of pastimes. The following blog is from June 11, 2009 and tells of comments that I made to a group of fellow students ten years ago. Comments that unfortunately proved prescient.

At the age of fifty-one I had gone back to college to work on a Master's Degree in Higher Education, and not for the typical reasons. My son was beginning his quest to find a college to attend and I was, much I am today, spending time on issues concerning the nation that we live in and the people within it. Choosing a college is much more of an important decision than is commonly ascribed to. The young person will be under the tutelage of 21st century professors. If you cannot see a problem here, try reading anything by David Horowitz. They (the students) will initially live in a dorm and we're not talking about Ricky Nelson's fraternity house. So I went back to school, partly to learn about the history of Higher Education in America and its modern counterpart, and partly to help my son in his decision. I completed the core curriculum, had a few seminar classes and a thesis left, but I had what I wanted. So, here I was in my early fifties, in a cohort of students who were mostly in their twenties. It was a terrific time for me but the topic of this blog revolves around a comment I made in one of the classes. I mentioned my extreme concern that there was a divide occurring in America that was far more serious than acknowledged to be. I could see the trend developing of two distinct peoples living within the same country. This concern has come to fruition and it threatens the stability of the nation. One people wants the Constitution to determine the laws of our nation, as it always had. The other wants the Constitution to conform to the desires of the people. Thus, the judiciary would become the new legislature. One wants to hear news reporting and make determinations for themselves. The other considers decision making to be unnecessary for they, the news media, have already completed that task for everyone, so the verity of the news we receive is a moot point. The split is so serious that if it were a demographic issue we would have two nations by now. And it is going to get worse for when one party in power in a division like this has gained that power by circumventing debate by way of a "cult of celebrity,"  and has already began wielding that sword as if it were forged for them, and begins to stifle opposing opinion, then indications are that it is very possible that liberty will decrease, and tyranny arise. The speed with which this transformation in our nation is being attempted is for a reason. Congress needs to slow this onslaught down and give many Americans time to reassess if this is what they bargained for.