Why we must change
LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson
We have to change.
If we continue doing the same things we are doing now, this country will slide into an abyss so deep we might never crawl out of it.
One might even argue, based on Barack Obama’s own words and actions, that is where the president wants to take us.
Well, I don’t want to go, and, hopefully, neither do you.
Some, mostly liberals, might argue America is doing fine, that the country is really making progress toward the fantasy the Left has that pure social equality is possible, that economically we can be as one, that a past fraught with failures can be corrected by an escape from the horrors of capitalism into a glowing new world in which human impulses are controlled by an understanding, benevolent government.
Indeed, socialist tendencies have been pressed for decades in America. What evidence do we have of liberal/progressive/socialist triumph?
Well, certainly there have been attitudinal changes, especially on the part of young people, regarding what America has traditionally stood for. Center to Americanism is freedom, but fewer and fewer people seem to hold that in the same regard as those before us.
A loss in value predicates the loss of freedom. Just as some have fought, or will fight, politically to preserve personal liberty, there are many who will not because they don‘t believe it is worth commitment.
Leftists don’t regard personal freedom as essential to happiness. Instead, they favor centralized government as necessary to guarantee social justice, defined by the Left as sameness in all things.
Many have embraced the notion of entitlement as encouraged by politicians such as Bernie Sanders; personal responsibility as part of American preservation is poorly regarded.
Leftists don’t like America and want to enforce their belief that it is racist, misogynistic, and capitalistic to the point of oppression. America was founded on and persists in injustice, not the pursuit of fairness, they argue.
Did you know many Lefties oppose majority rule? In their minds, majority rule creates an oppressed minority. In other words, the minority is forgotten. You can see where this could lead concerning elections.
The Left’s insistence on international redistribution has sent millions of American jobs to other countries. Instead of helping poorer nations develop their economies with their own resources, we have given them ours.
Not so long ago, Detroit had 300,000 manufacturing jobs; now there are 30,000 production jobs in the city, a loss of 90 percent.
Detroit once had a population of approximately 2 million and was an industrial powerhouse. The population is now around 700,000, and no one would call it the place of opportunity that it once was.
We import most of our steel from China while our workers grind coffee at Starbucks, hoping for the false security of an increase in minimum wage.
Indeed, we are China’s biggest market. Our trade deficit with this communist country runs around a half-trillion dollars per year. They surely regard us as fools.
America also owes China trillions, as negotiated in part by Hillary Clinton during our latest financial crisis, so triggered by liberal politicians’ insistence that banks fund mortgages to those who couldn‘t afford to pay them back.
Liberals call China a trade partner, but that isn’t accurate. We are markers for those smarter than our leadership.
Who else on Earth signs trade deals more beneficial to another country than to our own?
But that’s how it should be, the Lefties argue, because we have so much.
Liberals cover by blaming capitalism and corporate greed for the expanding cracks in our economic infrastructure, but the fault lies in the decline in production and political mismanagement. Unless we change leadership, this trend will only continue.
Our liberal president cares nothing about our $19 trillion in debt. If he did, he would be doing more about it. Much of what we borrow goes to pay for social programs now at the expense of subsequent generations later.
Liberals have okayed the use of drugs. Obama himself has called drug use victimless. Apparently, he doesn’t know about addiction or the violent crimes connected to feeding a habit.
Such is liberalism.
Enforcement of law isn’t based on the breaking of it, we are told, but on race.
Our border leaks blood, drugs, and laws scorned.
We are the culture of victims.
Abortion, the ending of an innocent life, is now a woman’s health issue alone. The baby’s health is irrelevant, no matter how far along, liberals claim.
What is a life, after all, compared to an ideology of tolerance, understanding, and love?
A fine legacy indeed.
