No. We won't survive as the country we are. We aren't the country we were. In some ways that is a good thing. As has been pointed out Jim Crow and slavery sucked big time.
The thing to remember is this. The fundamentals of what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the Bill or Rights mean. What is their spirit?
The Declaration of Independence tells governments when it is time for a people to throw them off. It sets up the principles by which free men live, and when those people have the duty to dissolve that government.
The Constitution is a document which allows the most freedom for the most people within the cultural, and geographic realities of this nation. And the Bill of Rights declares the rights of ALL people. Universal, and inalienable.
As things stand, there are many forces in the world threatening all of those principles. Some are far away, some are in our schools, our churches, synagogues, and mosques, and temples. Some are from politicians, some from teachers, some from co-workers, and friends or acquaintances.
The things this article talks about. Multi-culturalism, an agreed seperation of white and black society, fourth-gen warfare, all are death knells for the US as we know it.
And the comments of Josey W are the greatest threat of all. Complacency, even of our most ardent patriots. If even the most ardent amongst us do nothing, then a dark future will descend upon us all.
I don't know how this will all end. But I know how it began. It began when we decided we didn't want to act for ourselves. It began when we decided to let the government save for our retirements. It began when we decided to let the government print fiat currency backed by debt. It began when we allowed corporations to have more rights than living, breathing people, and it began when we decided that we weren't going to punish that government when it failed, and take back our rights, and more importantly, our responsibilities.
In my generation, many of us don't know how to run without the government, but there are undercurrents of descent. Many of us know the government's prerogatives under the drug war, and foreign policy often are unpure, and controlling.
We know Social Security won't be there for us.
Many of us also know that corporations using government power to get things which they couldn't obtain in the market to be wrong.
We aren't at the "punishing" stage yet. Many people in my generation are still in a state of despair, and lack hope. We are generation "y." As my best friend's sister likes to say, "That stands for "Y care? It isn't gonna do anything."
But I believe that when the economic house of cards built on government debt and corporate profit at any cost collapses, when the government's fraudulent retirement scheme fails, and we are cut off from the things we love, many of us will be angry. We will look for who did this, and if the right people are there to point us in the right direction, there can be a restoration.
But, I doubt that restoration will be the whole country. I doubt it will be all of us. I think different people will see different problems, and different solutions, and different regions of the country will use different methods to run themselves.
When that happens, well, who knows?
As I said, I don't know how this will end, I only know how it began.
Guns n all, man I love my Dad. I lived way out in the woods in a nice house....had my little record player.
Howzat work???
It makes my skin crawl. If you have a dissenting, non-extremist-liberal viewpoint at U of M, they'll boycott you, protest you, insult you, and probably sue you. Yet your average blue collar Joe in MI wears University of Michigan apparel all the time, all the while ignorant of the fact that by default people are supporting an institution with extremist liberal beliefs (which likely conflict with some of their own) without realizing it.
