Dooming the United States

No, it will not be atomic weapons, nor will it be terrorism. The straw that kills the greatest country on Earth will be ignorance.

All a person has to do is look around you and see what we are doing to ourselves. We are the most self-absorbed bunch of Ostriches on the planet. The current population does not even want to tender the thought that others are plotting the demise of this Nation. No, we are too absorbed with our own preoccupations to care and even get hostile to those trying to prevent our annihilation.

If whatever is going on in the world interferes with our 'tanning booth' appointment or other such nonsense, we get mad. We get mad at any distraction of our normal activities. Because of our preoccupation with our personal selves, we see the world through rose-colored glasses. If another country does not like us, then we must have done something that made those other countries mad at us. After all, we do not hate anybody. To quote Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?"

There is a leadership vacuum in this country. On one side, there are the environmentalists, conspiracy theorists, Bush haters, and socialists. The leaders of these groups take advantage of the ignorant and work them up into a frenzy over baseless ideas. They are the banner carriers, and the demonstrators, well intentioned, but their protestations are generally unfounded. There has been no leadership to guide these people except from the left. Remember, that these are not people prone to examining issues for validity. Instead, they listen to what they hear through the media. The majority of the mass media only presents one side of a story in a good light. If the media mentions the other side of the issue, it is presented in the most unfavorable light possible.

Most of the mass media is agenda driven and nothing but the propaganda arm of the Liberal extremists. The goal is to take control of you and your freedom. Every day you as a person have to make small decisions that affect your daily lives. The decisions you make can be either inconsequential or serious.

Whenever I speak of stealing your freedom, I am not speaking of incarceration. But little by little you are losing the ability to decide on details of your life. Instead of you making the decision on what type of light bulb to use, liberals use the heavy hand of Government to make that decision for you. Liberals are not satisfied with just educating and letting you make the decisions, no, they want to reserve those small decisions for themselves.

The fat police want to use taxation to control your diet. Never mind that education and giving the population reasoned logic for not abusing fatty foods would solve this problem. No, the Liberal elites have no faith in you to make up your own mind.

The freedoms that we have lost so far were lost because of hype from a Liberal media. The template is always the same and uses the guise of either saving people from their disgusting habits or saving the world from a bogus global warming threat. Liberal proposals are always presented in a way that frames the good that they will do. Never do you hear that giving the government the power to make these small decisions for you is stealing your freedom.

If we don't get our schools in order and put discipline back in the classroom, we are going to be consumed by ignorance. People need to know how to think and not have to rely on others to make decisions for them. All you have to do is read some of the left-wing blogs like 'The Daily Kos', 'Media Matters', or 'Move On.org" to see just how ignorant we are becoming as a society. Dumbing down our population is a disaster in waiting for this nation.

Cheers,

-Robert-