I think most of the damage done in the last century can be laid at the feet of the so-called progressive or populist movements that gave us the 16th and 17th amendments through which they illegally expanded the powers of the federal government and stole our individual wealth and treasure. Through these vehicles they introduced the income tax, the federal reserve, the Raw Deal, the Progressive Society, the Ruling Class, the professional Victim Class, the Nanny State, the Police State, the Welfare State, the Federal Behemoth, the Federal Beast, etc, etc, etc, and stole our Liberty and, apparently, even our will to resist their evil onslaught.
Our current society of brainwashed wimplings roll over for this tyranny on a daily basis. Prior generations (1700’s, 1800’s) of true red-blooded Americans would have rebelled long before it ever got to today’s totalitarianism!
“...and stole our Liberty and, apparently, even our will to resist their evil onslaught.”
I was raised by my grandparents and I’m old fashioned in many ways, especially for being a techy, but their generation would not have sat ‘round waiting for the ‘system’ to pay them homage.
They were loud and proud and politicians knew their place then, by and large.
Recent generations are given to acquiescence to a degree and of a type that you can’t call American, really.
It’s strange and frightening.
The left is winning, or so it would appear.
I sincerely believe that we fight right now, or America is on destruction’s expressway.
She will not survive a hard-left government.
This is a seminal moment in our history as a free country and only a few Americans seem to sense it.
Most of the Yahoo’s around here would not recognize a true “Free Republic” if it bite ‘em on the arse. Do states rights mean anything anymore? We live in a Constitutional Empire unfortunately....
This may be true by way of historical trend analysis. That is, progressive era begat Woodrow Wilson, who in WWI gave a dry run of Govt control, which was revived in FDR's time as the New Deal. The New Deal was locked in place by 20 years of Democrat control of the Presidency, and when Eisenhower came to power, he had no desire/agenda to repeal things like farm supports, social security etc.
The next liberal wave was LBJ's Great Society. that was 40 years ago. In the 1970s we got more liberalism under Nixon (EPA etc) and Carter. Reagan rolled back taxes, but even Medicare which was started under LBJ was kept.
Reagan successfully turned the trajectory of governmental advance, but did not alas give us smaller government. He merely stopped the socialists advance and for 25 years or so, we've enjoyed prosperity under this system.
Which lead us to today. This frog has been slowly boiled for at least a century or more. Now Obama is turning up the heat yet more.
Choose your battles. We cannot undo a century of advance of 'progressive' Big Government intrusion in our personal and economic affairs. Most voters may not want to, as many are ignorant of history (educated by schools pushing these progressive agendas as indoctrination points).
What can we undo? What can we defend? We cannot undo what happened a century ago, right now. What we can do is STOP THE OBAMA AGENDA TO MAKE AMERICA A SEMI-SOCIALIST STATE.
Choose your battles, focus your attention. Then you win.