The debate
rages constantly in politics and has reached fever pitch. American exceptionalism verses the world order
of big government, where national decisions are made in the dark by unseen
forces. The tyranny of big government is
the new American remake that President Obama promised. According to him and the radical left, if the
people yield control of their lives to big government, to the dark forces, our
lives will be protected and improved.
Shall we believe him or them?? Is
it not Obama who promised you can keep your doctor?
Some
politicians preach American exceptionalism but few of them define what makes
America great or exceptional. Money and
power to influence the world order are not American exceptional credits, so
what is? What is our national pride, the
quality that has rung the bell for 250 years?
We older
folk were taught our national greatness from a very early age when school was about
school. President Lincoln prayed on
November 19, 1863 at the Gettysburg cemetery honoring the 7,000 dead and 38,000
wounded at this one battle of the Civil War.
How could anyone, any president, justify such carnage? Lincoln did so by giving the Civil War the same
status as that of our American Revolution, 100 years earlier. The sacrifice on that field and his prayer were
necessary to preserve our national greatness, an American “government of the
people, for the people and by the people”.
Without their sacrifice, America
would no longer be America.
Our country has
always been about this one revolutionary idea, true democracy. The life situation of the black man in
America was not the central issue of the Civil War but it was the most visible
issue. The central issue was one of
economics or money. Can a few wealthy
people so manipulate American democracy to the point that our government no
longer represents all the people? Is our government to be "of, for and by the rich few"?
When
politicians of both parties are owned by the rich interests who dictate
policy for the people, the voter no longer have a real choice at the ballot box
and America fails to be a democracy.
Money in politics is going to force another phase of the American Revolution
for we the people have become impotent to influence our own future. We can hope that the coming revolution will
be violence free but don’t count on it.
Our only hope for that outcome is Donald J. Trump, the 45th
President of the United States.
It is indeed
ironic that our only hope to preserve our democracy in the 21st
century, is himself a wealthy man who cannot be bought as are all the rest of
the gold diggers. History will have a
good laugh, if we stand up for him!
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
