'After America. . . Who Will Lead The World?'
By J. D. Longstreet (11/03/08)
November 4th, 2008, will likely go down in the history books as the day America gave up her world leadership role and became another "has been" nation.
About two years ago when I first began to look seriously at this fellow named Obama, I recognized his overt socialism immediately. It wasn't difficult. It was right there for everyone to see… if one wished to see it. But it now seems that millions of Americans are perfectly fine with assisting in the suicide of America by accepting his message of socialism, the destroyer of nations.
I'm an old codger, in my late sixties, and I have seen socialism as an enemy of the United States and what, back in my day, we called Americanism. Americanism is simply defined as democratic capitalism.
When I was in the US military we were taught to fight socialism. We trained to meet the socialists on the field of battle. There was no question that Americanism and socialism could not exist on the same globe without conflict, and, we rightly assumed, armed conflict.
Months ago, as I began to write about the dangers of socialism to America, (and how the Democratic Party has become a sort of Socialist/Democratic party) I was stunned when they, the democrats, did not refute it. I had expected democrats to deny any connection to socialism. But they didn't. It was then that it struck me… they don't deny it because they can't. They have become socialist! They have embraced socialism.
Back in 1935, or so, FDR, a democrat, introduced Socialism to America with his New Deal. America has never been able to extricate itself from the New Deal. It is still with us today.
As hard as it is to fathom, there are millions of Americans today educated in America's public schools who have no idea what socialism is. As the democratic party controls our public school system, the courses taught are favorable to socialism. American "scholars" are not taught that socialism is a cancer, which will eat away the core of a capitalist nation by simply removing any desire of the citizens to advance their station in life. It squashes all ambition to live better, to make more money, to manufacture better goods, to offer better services, to do/say/produce anything in which one could exhibit pride either in themselves or their country.
How can this be? Well, socialism demands the end of private enterprise. Under socialism there would be no small businesses, no Mom and Pop stores, no entrepreneurs. Socialism demands the redistribution of wealth. That means taking the money you earned and giving it to those who did not earn it. Socialism demands that all wealth in a nation, and that includes yours, will be controlled by the government. In other words, you will own nothing --- not even your own money. The government owns everything and everyone is given only what it takes for that person to survive. Socialism celebrates the lack of an upper class and a lower class. Under socialism there is only one class. And in THAT class all people suffer equally.
It would seem that America has made the decision to turn it's back on everything good the forbearers made and sacrificed to give us… an America, unique in all the world and in all the world's history. What, then, is America about to do? America is about to join the mediocrity of the remainder of the world. No longer desirous of the leadership role, no longer willing to do the heavy lifting required by freedom, America has decided to join the pack of "has been" nations now embarrassed by their past glory years.
If I am right, and I am convinced that I am, tomorrow will begin the" Post-America" period in world history. Which leads to the burning question, at least for me. That question is: after America, who will lead the world?
J. D. Longstreet
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