Ray9
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E Pluribus Unum. What does that even mean? It’s on our money and the Great Seal of the US in the eagle’s mouth so it must be important. It’s Latin for “Out of Many, One”. So, loosely translated in modern terms it apparently means we are united.
Anyone who didn’t just come out of a cave knows we are anything but united. That Latin phrase has been a motto for America since the late 1700’s and it symbolized the country’s allegiance to freedom from oppressive and authoritarian government. It was a new and powerful idea that the people would control the government from the bottom up instead of being controlled from the top down.
Things went relatively well until the Great Depression when the stock market tanked, banks failed, the economy collapsed, and unemployment soared. Mass panic gripped the nation and there were no safeguards in place to stop the bleeding. Even with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal the wound took a decade to heal.
After the Second World War things got back on track but a spoiled generation followed that was indoctrinated by higher education to believe the Depression was caused by a failure of capitalism and Roosevelt’s social engineering saved the country. This ushered in LBJ’s Great Society and in just a few years family units fell apart, crime went to unprecedented levels, drug use skyrocketed, cities deteriorated, and government grew by orders of magnitude.
There was amnesia among academics and politicians and the American experiment was tainted with revised history as the gears of the nation were bent to produce idiosyncratic outcomes dividing the country with identity politics and racial discord disguised as the usual “class struggle” that underlies all socialist/communist fundamentalism. Donald Trump’s election was a repudiation of the same bad ideas destroying personal liberty and propagating top-down authoritarian government that oppresses so may in the world.
This Coronavirus could be the final nail in the coffin for a free America. It is the result of the abandonment of the people by political aristocrats colluding with global cohorts on distant continents to overthrow American Exceptionalism and bury it forever. It’s convenient germ warfare to destroy the national economy and biologically euthanize the problematic weak, old and sick.
The plague couldn’t have come at a better time for the political elite in America and that includes both parties. Freedom was fun while it lasted wasn’t it?
Anyone who didn’t just come out of a cave knows we are anything but united. That Latin phrase has been a motto for America since the late 1700’s and it symbolized the country’s allegiance to freedom from oppressive and authoritarian government. It was a new and powerful idea that the people would control the government from the bottom up instead of being controlled from the top down.
Things went relatively well until the Great Depression when the stock market tanked, banks failed, the economy collapsed, and unemployment soared. Mass panic gripped the nation and there were no safeguards in place to stop the bleeding. Even with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal the wound took a decade to heal.
After the Second World War things got back on track but a spoiled generation followed that was indoctrinated by higher education to believe the Depression was caused by a failure of capitalism and Roosevelt’s social engineering saved the country. This ushered in LBJ’s Great Society and in just a few years family units fell apart, crime went to unprecedented levels, drug use skyrocketed, cities deteriorated, and government grew by orders of magnitude.
There was amnesia among academics and politicians and the American experiment was tainted with revised history as the gears of the nation were bent to produce idiosyncratic outcomes dividing the country with identity politics and racial discord disguised as the usual “class struggle” that underlies all socialist/communist fundamentalism. Donald Trump’s election was a repudiation of the same bad ideas destroying personal liberty and propagating top-down authoritarian government that oppresses so may in the world.
This Coronavirus could be the final nail in the coffin for a free America. It is the result of the abandonment of the people by political aristocrats colluding with global cohorts on distant continents to overthrow American Exceptionalism and bury it forever. It’s convenient germ warfare to destroy the national economy and biologically euthanize the problematic weak, old and sick.
The plague couldn’t have come at a better time for the political elite in America and that includes both parties. Freedom was fun while it lasted wasn’t it?
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