Sunday Morning Coming Down

 

Well, I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
So I had one more for dessert
Then I fumbled in my closet for my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
And I shaved my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day

Kris Kristofferson wrote that song about fifty years go.  Johnny Cash famously recorded it. It has become one of my all time favorites, because of the truisms that it speaks of.

In the park I saw a daddy
With a laughin' little girl who he was swinging
And I stopped beside a Sunday school
And listened to the song that they were singing
Then I headed back for home
And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringing
And it echoed through the canyons
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday

I believe the realities spoken of then, speak equally as true as they did then.  Our world has been turned asunder. Up is down and left is right and everything that we every held faith with, seems to be old and out of style.

We are told to hurry and catch up with the new normal.  But what is the new normal.  And if this is it?  I am pretty sure that I don't want any.  I am not buying.  As each day passes, it becomes increasingly harder to hold our place in life.  We are constantly bombarded with all the reasons that we need to abandoned the long accepted norms.  We are told to cast them aside and accept the new world order of things.

Why?  Because that is only fair.  Well I am here to tell you folks, there isn't a damn thing fair about the rose colored world of egalitarian socialism.  The only thing that approximates fair, is the intended equal sharing of misery.  As we go into the last month of this year, look back on the previous twelve months.  Think back to what you remember of December last.  How things were.  How your life was.

If anyone had of told you that you would have seen come to pass what we have witnessed in the last twelve months? Would you have believed them.  Would you have believed that large segments of our society would be so filled with rage and hatred?  As to attack the very foundations of our heritage and history.  Would you have believed what you have seen of statues being torn down and defaced?  While a complacent and complicit media looked on, with nary any notice.  Other than to appear to approve of these acts by their silent acclimation. 

Would you have believed that the majority of Americans would have stood mute and witnessed their basic rights and freedoms cast aside, by those in elected offices.  By virtue of caveats issued to literally imprison Americans in their own homes.

Dwight Eisenhower warned us of the military industrial complex. An entity that represented collusion between business interests and military interest. But who warned us of the creep malignancy of communism.  Was it Nikita Kruchev?  When he threatened that we will bury you?  Or was it someone else in our midst.  One of the first to be demonized and vilified and chased from our midst.

Three generations of Americans have been told that the messenger was senator Joseph McCarthy.  But look back now on his warnings.  Of his belief and evidence presented of entrenched and deeply rooted communism and communists in Hollywood. And his warnings of what would happen if we continued to allow the cancer of communism to metastasize in America and the American movie industry.

What McCarthy warned us of then in Hollywood?  Was also present in our universities then. And a generation later, it was spawned in our public schools and a generation after that, we saw the disease of anti Americanism and the embrace of communism, spilling over into the turbulent 1960's and protests in the streets.

The cartoon Pogo literally hit the nail on the head when Pogo said: 

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

Americans are our own worst enemy and we always have been, because more often than not, we have willingly forgotten our history, while buying into the latest offerings of the egalitarian snake oil salesmen in Washington and their media.

I have said before and I will say again, the media in America (the press) were supposed to be the gate keepers.  They were the ones entrusted in the first amendment of the constitution, with safeguarding our freedoms.  It was their responsibility to be the sheep dogs.  To keep the wolves at bay with the iron forged defenses of truth.

However, they have long ago abandoned that sacred trust. The American media began their march to the left with the advent of television and they have steadily progressed in that direction since the mid 1950's

Every aspect of our lives once cherished and revered? Have been vilified and mocked by the media.  From the entertainment industry to the so called outlets of journalism.

There no longer is anything that resembles journalism in America.  Because journalism requires reporting. The telling of the facts and the truth. Regardless of how ugly those truths and facts may be.  And with that needs to be the fortitude to stand up and report truth to power.  But ask yourself?  When was the last time you remember seeing that from the American media.  I truthfully cannot remember.

But what I can remember?

I can remember 9/11and I can remembered the steady onslaught of everything that is America, before and since 9/11. We swore that we would never forget, but we have.  We have forgotten with our collective complacency, combined with our collective fears of being singled from the heard.  

They say that fear is the most powerful motivator and weapon in any conflict.  That is why terrorist bank on fear as their primary weapon against the masses.  Are the media any different.  Are they anything more than informational terrorists of the modern day?  They are certainly no longer the gate keepers to our republic or our freedoms.

Millions of Americans have died over the last 250 years, fighting to preserve our nation and our freedoms.  Yet we as a people continually hand over our freedoms, on the promises of more security.  Benjamin Franklin rightly observed, that "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither."

Thomas Jefferson rightly observed: "That the tree of Liberty, from time to time, needs to be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots."

So why is it that we have forgotten the wisdom of our founding fathers.  Why is it, that we now stand silently and watch them vilified and their images torn down and trampled upon. Why is it that we as a nation have not stood up to stop this invasive cancer that permeates our nation and its elected leaders today.

Some say that we need a new constitution.  That the one we enacted in 1787, no longer suits our modern and contemporary society. On the one hand?  I tend to agree.  With the exception that we do not need to do away with our bedrock foundation.  But we do need to add to it.  And some of the additions that come to my mind are these.

1. Set term limits for congress.  No more than two terms, the same as the presidency.  

2. Require congress to abide by the same laws as every American.

3. Establish an amendment that states that no one running for elected office, can accept campaign funding from any outside of their state entity or individual.
4. Require that all elections be held in person by paper ballots and that voter I.D. laws become universal in all states.
5. Require that absentee ballots be allowed only for those incapable of voting in person, due to physical infirmity, attested to by a doctor's certification.  And require that all absentee ballots be certified and verified by I.D. and signatures when received. And require that all absentee ballots be received at least 72 hours before the day of the election.
6. Require a balanced budget from congress each year.  No exceptions.

7. Forbid the American government from doing business with any country that espouses communism, or the open overthrow of this nation
8. Require the media, both print, televised and digital to report true and accurate representations and immediately clarify any time they discovered they were lied to.
9. Require immediate prosecution of anyone, including elected officials, who violate the trust of the American people, or their sworn oaths to the constitution. Which is treason=n and should be punished accordingly.
10. Require all future bills to be limited and specific to one issue and one issue only. Prohibit any amendment, that does not immediately address the issue being presented in the bill.
11. Provide for a line item veto, on all bills brought before the president to be signed into law.
12. Make it a federal crime, to burn or desecrate the American flag.  

Those are my opening bid issues.  Feel free to give me your thoughts on it.  I do believe, that there are more than a few dozen million Americans who feel the same way.