Not A Sustainable Philosophy For World Order

This week I returned from camping in Quebec with two sons and three close friends. While there, my son, Jon, capsulized it all by saying, "You know Dad, Republicanism is just not a sustainable philosophy for future world order."

I paused after he said it and marveled at how it captured everything. Off shore drilling in the promotion of oil as the answer, the jury is still out on evolution, Christianity should overtly influence governmental policy, six years of denying global warming, social security should be abolished, a trillion dollars to corporate welfare, destruction of union labor, removal of all price and anti-theft regulations from essential industries, no discussion with potential adversaries, health care not being essential for the general public, and, most of all, might always makes right, to name just a few, all say the same thing: Republicanism is not a sustainable philosophy for future world order. We isolate ourselves in a cocktail of arrogance and ignorance and the entire world sadly, or joyfully, sees this.

Allegedly only three members of Congress read the Patriot Act (an oxymoron in the word itself) before they signed many of our Constitutional Rights away, and the same ploy was attempted with the 700 billion dollar gift to the banks, insurance companies and Wall Street, the same people who are responsible for taking our money. Fear has repeatedly been used against our citizenry.

Some say that the political party, Republican, has been hijacked by the Federalist Society which began in 1982 during Reagan's first term, and that this is not the Party of Lincoln anymore. This group has managed in their quest for an absolute agenda to not only sell off America but to destabilize the entire western world. Take for example, if you and I contracted our house to a professional team to watch over things and when we got home the furniture was sold to the Mexicans and Chinese, our life savings and retirement accounts had been cut by forty percent, the cost of all essentials such as oil, gas, medications, etc. had gone up in some cases four hundred percent, and as they see us coming up the walk past the foreclosure sign, they sneak out the back door and then have the audacity to ring the door bell and say, "Can we come in again for another four years, we promise change!" Are we completely nuts! Hitler, Stalin and the radical Islamics could not have attacked and damaged America as much as these relatively few have.

And, not to be overlooked, they have also attempted to redefine the word Patriotic and have done their best to distort the dream that our forefathers had in that word.

12/30/08