An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Insanity
ObamaCare will Nullify Much of the Bill of Rights!
by J.D. Longstreet
Over the past few months we have attempted to warn you about the freedom Americans will lose if the Healthcare bills, which have come to known as ObamaCare, are passed into law by the US Congress. Yet, some of the latest polls show the American people are split almost fifty-fifty in favor of and against the bills now making their way through the Congress.
It is sad beyond measure how little modern day Americans treasure the freedom so many thousands, yea millions, of their fellow Americans have given their blood, their treasure, and even their lives to secure and to preserve just for them!
But, sadly, that is where we are in today’s America. We are but a shell of the America I grew up in. Taken as a whole, the modern day American nation is a pathetic 100th generation copy of the American nation of the 1940’s and 1950’s. Weak, apprehensive, apathetic, ignorant, fat, lazy, and just little frightened is a good description of America today. And that is a shame.
If you have ever observed a big, strong, strapping, young man killing himself with self-destructive behavior such as alcoholism or drug addiction while those who care for him warn him time and again about his destructive conduct and the certainty of his end, and you have watched as he deteriorates and crumbles in upon himself until he is a husk of the man he used to be, then you know how many of my generation view America today. Worse yet, we love her as did the friends of the hypothetical young man we mentioned above. It is painful to watch. But, that is where we are in America today.
America is bent on self-destruction and nothing, it seems, will save her.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking. There have been quite a few things that crossed through my mind, on a regular basis. I question whether I even care anymore what happens to this country, out of utter frustration. But I know I do. No matter my irritation at the complete ignorance of what I see on “the other side”, I still love my country. I still care what happens here. I still worry that my grandchildren will never know the freedoms I knew. I can’t say “know”, because I don’t see those same freedoms anymore. I’ve seen them whittled away, day by day, year by year, decade by decade, until the country I see today, is NOT the same nation I saw as a young sprout. Having spoken to many over the last few years, I know I am not alone in my observations.
I realize we all go through changes during our lifetimes. I went from extremely shy, to rowdy teen, to a hippy, to a wife and mother, to a not so great member of society. Then, I started to grow up, and saw what I was doing, not only to myself, but to my family. I started paying attention. I started observing the world around me again, and while I wasn’t all that alarmed, I was a bit concerned. I started to remember things my parents had told me about their youth, and their experiences during prohibition, the “Great Depression”, WWII, and the aftermath. This isn’t the same country anymore. Children are no longer free to be children. Adults can’t make their own choices, good or bad, without someone interfering in their decisions. We are not the United States of America. We have become the Divided Citizens of a socialist state.
I know we are a nation of, not ‘left’ and ‘right’, but of right and wrong. Where we are right now, is wrong. Plain and simple. If you’ve never read the U.S. Constitution, take the time to read it, word for word. You can even get your own free copy to carry with you from The Heritage Foundation. If you haven’t read The 5000 Year Leap, go buy it, or request it at your local library. In case you didn’t know, it’s an excellent explanation of the Constitution and how it came about.
As much as I’d like to say our path to the hell of socialism started on 1/20/09, I can’t. It wouldn’t be true. It started long before. I have no specific date, nothing to pinpoint to say “That’s when it started.” The path began long before I was born, but has been accelerating in the past 40 years. I can say, the last 9 months has been the ‘fast track’. Even people who never paid much attention to politics have become quite aware of current events as evidenced by the growing number of “TEA Partiers”.
I heard a reference on Bill O’Reilly last night calling the rallies “anti-Obama’”. I have lost a great deal of respect for O’Reilly recently. That was just the icing on the cake. We are not anti-Obama. We are anti-socialism. We are anti-big government. We are anti-over taxation. We are anti-government intrusion. It’s not that complicated.
We don’t need ‘health care reform’. We need government reform. We need to reform the government to its original intent. NOW!
You’re dead on about being a divided nation. I am not so sure that will ever be changed. It seems to me the only thing that matters anymore is whether you are “Blue” or “Red”. As a nation we have become so damned hypersensitive to anyone who disagrees with our point of view that debate no longer exists. I don’t think people actually want to debate anyway, they just want to shout down and insult those who disagree with them. The left looks upon the right with contempt and arrogance. The right looks at the left with disdain and anger. One’s individual viewpoints are automatically swallowed up and they are thrown into a big pile of generalizations. I.E Conservatives are bigots…Liberals are traitorous and evil. I am perfectly happy to reside in the middle, and most likely will never define myself as one or the other. I think it helps think with a clearer mind.
There is right, and there is wrong. One of these days, everyone will have to choose. But you are right about one thing…it’s no longer about discussing differences.