Enter Stage Left

“All the world’s a stage,

And all men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts…”

“As You Like It” Act II Scene VII

William Shakespeare, 1564 -1616

Our nation’s men and women are troubled and struggling with what they are seeing, hearing or experiencing first hand. It is not difficult to understand why. Neither is it difficult to notice that many have turned, in desperation, to the safety of “I wish” for solace. There are several problems with ‘I wish’. The most obvious is the old adage “Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.”

History is filled with men and women who pinned their desperation, hopes and wishes on the likely existence of an all powerful elixir. Elixir has been defined as a flavored liquid used for medicinal purposes. Ancient alchemists also sought a preparation that was believed capable of changing metals into gold. Others sought a preparation to induce love. The early Greeks saw it as a powder for drying wounds. Elixir was sought by many because it was believed that the right combinations of unlike extracts, tinctures and powders would, when matched correctly, cure all diseases. The wish and therefore the hope for the “cure all” was widely sold to many who had become convinced enough to believe and trust. Most of the believers merely discovered they had been cheated. Many of them died.

The word flimflam comes to us from old Norse as a lampoon or mockery. During the sixteenth century it was understood to be nonsense or idle talk and a sort of shallow trick that a reasonable person wouldn’t fall for. To the unwary, the flimflam man used it as a distraction to confuse his target customer even as he was being shortchanged. Flimflam is often found in the company of claptrap. Claptrap is defined as cheap, showy language, pure nonsense and silly rubbish. It is almost always displayed by hucksters several of which we can easily identify as political candidates. In all of the debates, both republican and democratic, aired on television to date, I have seen few leaders emerge from behind the shadow of flimflam and claptrap. The daily interactive verbal battle ground leading to the most important office in the free world litters the landscape with wishful thinking, magic, flimflam, claptrap and more than a dash of hyperbole and dishonesty.

We are, therefore, on a collision course with history and in spite of current revisionists, history never gets it wrong.

Observe the current outcomes created by political hucksters preying on the trusting people who chose to believe in them:

the necessity of buyer beware and better safe than sorry,

the reality of spending our future with money printed on demand,

the true cost of something for nothing schemes,

the pain suffered through the loss of self worth and self respect,

the tyranny of a top down government,

the massive underemployment in response to regulations promulgated by agencies accountable to no one,

the stability of continuously improving peaceful race relations of this nation are being reduced to confrontations with the promise of open hostility a mere breath away,

the misuse of constitutionally entrusted power,

the destruction of an internationally respected national health program,

the bold faced lies, always and forever, the inherent and persistent political lies.

Lastly, I believe we have ignored our national moral and ethical compass and the door built for our safety and a possible national maturity is rapidly closing.

I suppose we could accidentally and suddenly rediscover what made us great for such a long time but that too is probably nothing more than wishful thinking. We are close to losing the hundred year war we have been fighting and history is patiently waiting to push the reset button. I fear it could be a very long dark night. 

Perhaps forever?

Woodrow Wilson's Progressive Legacy Is Finally In Question

Just in case you missed it! look for the article 'Utah Senate Votes to Repeal 17th Amendment' by Christine Rousselle at Townhall.com for February 26. The Utah Senate voted 20-6 to ask the Congress to repeal the 17th Amendment. Why is this significant?  "The 17th Amendment was not what the founders of the country had intended and changed the meaning of the role of the senators." This vote is but a small step in a long necessary journey, but it is significant  because the very foundation of our Republic was forever weakened by the creation of the 17th Amendment.

This news is good reason to believe that the significance of the language of the Constitution as originally conceived, written and adopted is finally being reexamined and understood. It is not a living document subject to change because of time and circumstance. Perhaps, if only perhaps,  the conceived Republic as written and defined might yet receive a life saving  transfusion of truth and understanding.

To better understand this Utah vote, turn your thinking to 1913. It was a wonderful year for Woodrow Wilson and all progressives and a horrible setback for those who side with Freedom.

In 1913, Progressives laid the necessary foundation for the intended growth of their basic mind numbing philosophy. The progressive legislative agenda was built the back of three major pieces of legislation. All came to fruition in 1913. Two pieces changed our Constitution and the third provided the  perceived bottomless pit of money necessary to accomplish their goals.  

16^th Amendment FEDERAL INCOME TAX

This allowed the federal government a steady flow of money and removed any further action required by the states.

17^th Amendment DIRECT VOTE FOR STATE SENATORS

This removed the ability of the states as political bodies to limit federal power.

THE FEDERAL RESERVE WAS CREATED  The FED can print money on demand.  This allowed theoretically unlimited leverage on paper money without the acquiescence of Congress.

Freedom Past Present and Future

Questions Are the Answer

Several well known people are on record predicting the 2016 election cycle will become historically recognized and remembered as the most important election in our nation’s history. They also predict the possibility of  a historical turning point, a possible point of crisis and, perhaps, a point of no return.

If these predictions are accurate, it is you “the people” who must choose to affirm that you cherish what you currently possess. Your failure to vote in the company of wisdom will significantly open wide the door that protects you from those who desire to make our Constitution worth nothing more than the quaint ideas of people long dead. Your nation and your world envied way of life hangs in the balance. Are you up to it? Let’s get started. The following is a short list of questions important to your survival as a free person.

Can you name each branch of the government and define its constitutional responsibilities?

Can you define the phrase “unalienable rights” from the Declaration of Independence? Hint: It means much more than they cannot be taken away.

Which historical document contains the phrase “Separation of Church and State”? (Constitution, Declaration of Independence or Neither)

Which government branch is constitutionally designated to approve Cabinet and Supreme Court appointments?  How many votes are required for approval? Why?

The answers to the next five questions reveal the very heart of what progressives and self identified socialists strongly desire to take away from you.

Can you explain the 1^st Amendment as written in the Bill of Rights?

Can you explain the 2^nd Amendment as written in the Bill of Rights?

Can you explain the 4^th Amendment as written in the Bill of Rights?

Can you explain the 10^th Amendment as written in the Bill of Rights?

A Progressive is too Big to Swallow

The “Poor old Lady” by Anonymous: The Poetry Foundation

“Poor old lady, she swallowed a fly.

I don’t know why she swallowed a fly.

Poor old lady, I think she’ll die.”

In an ever increasing frenzy the Poor old lady continues to swallow a menagerie of ever larger insects and animals. Each stanza ends with the same observation. “I think she’ll die”. In the seventh and final stanza, the frenzy ends.

“Poor old lady, she swallowed a horse.

She died, of course.”

Unless you the people turn aside from the incremental step by step progressive rights consuming frenzy, “She died, of course” will predictably and appropriately be written on the tombstone of a nation laid to waste because it foolishly self destroyed its historical beginnings, its strength and,  in due course, itself.

The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776 gave all of us the solid foundation of “equality under the law” and it has nurtured us for 240 years. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Note here that it is your right is to pursue happiness. Happiness, however, is not guaranteed!

The point of the foundation is clear.  Progressives, however, actually disdain the declaration’s premise that all people are equal as people and, therefore, have the right to “equality under the law” as its accepted meaning. Remember, this specific equality did not exist in all of history before this declaration was written. Progressives now challenge the “equality under law” interpretation. They are trying to substitute this impartial definition with the artificial equalities of “results” and “conditions” and postulate that the envied resources and perceived advantages earned and possessed by others actually belong to all by “right of existence”!

Consider reading: Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America by James Ostrowski  

Progressivism, Socialism and a Dark Future

It is nearly impossible for me to not laugh outrageously and then convulse in tears of sadness as I view the incredible gullibility of the supporters of both Clinton and Sanders and by extension Obama and all progressives existing in both political parties past and present. For all who choose to follow progressivism and or socialism, their personal freedoms, choice and self determination are soon to be replaced by servitude to the state. Differences of definition, language and anticipated outcomes of progressivism and socialism, as they are currently being presented as rightful replacements for our nation’s constitution, are very slight. And yet, Socialism is clearly the next anointed and preplanned step in the process to captivate and enslave the masses who simply do not understand or appreciate what they already possess. Forgive me here, but the poem shown below popped into my mind and it speaks volumes of practical truth and the truth has never been a consideration of the foes of freedom.

                                                                        Cruel Clever Cat

                                                            Sally, having swallowed cheese,

                                                            Directs down holes the scented breeze,

                                                            Enticing thus, with baited breath

                                                            Nice mice to an untimely death.

                                                                                                            Geoffrey Taylor

With deep regret, I believe our nation’s colleges and universities have become the primary source of applied political correctness and progressive thinking. These institutions have also opened the door to legitimize socialism. Socialism is, by definition, “a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.”

“Socialism should be considered a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism.” Make no mistake here! “Community” is, in reality, the State and the State is our elected government and any government, unchecked, is power without freedom!

It is frightening to watch young people turn away from capitalism and history and speak of their support of dual philosophies which are both alien and destructive toward the guaranteed personal freedoms that have been theirs since birth. They seem to be doing the unthinkable with zero comprehension of what is being laid before them as their entitlement.

I urge all Americans to pursue the light of freedom and relish in its warmth. Do so with the realization that you possess the tools necessary to escape a predictably dark future.