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Tony Rubolotta
Killing the American Spirit
October 1, 2008
America was an idea, a dream if you will,
long before the United States of America came into being. The American
Dream gave birth to the American Spirit, which was conceived in 1607 and
born in 1776. That spirit had its growing pains and a few reversals but
none so serious to prevent it from reaching from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. An American was a person imbued with that spirit in pursuit of
the dream on the frontier of comfort and safety. Americans were men,
women and children, facing risks on a daily basis because the hazards of
freedom were preferred to the servitude of security.
That dream, before it was called the American Dream, was to carve a
patch of civilization where crops could be grown, timber harvested,
livestock raised and minerals mined. It was a place where helping your
neighbor achieve his dream, and they helping you was done because it was
the Christian thing to do. It was a place where a home could be built
and a family raised without some prince exacting tribute at every
opportunity. It was a place where praise was given to God for his
blessings, not to some monarch who tolerated your existence to reap the
benefits of your labor.
The American Spirit was demonstrated in the daily struggle for survival
on the frontier, on whaling ships, in work shops, taverns and inns
across the lands that would become the United States. The American
Spirit burst into life when farmers, shopkeepers, tradesmen and clerks
stood their ground at Lexington and Concord. That spirit survived the
deprivation and hardship of Valley Forge to emerge victorious at
Yorktown. More than a century later, that same American Spirit, with the
pride of its navy resting on the bottom of Pearl Harbor, reversed its
misfortunes and pursued the enemy to their homeland.
The American Spirit isn’t dead but has been severely wounded by people
who call themselves Americans without the slightest clue of what it
means. They have no sense of history or heritage. These people are
largely dependent on the 535 princes, one monarch and nine mages they
have empowered to provide for their security, needs and wants. These
non-Americans living among us include the rich and poor, men and women,
black and white, Democrat and Republican. Their blessings come from
government, or so they believe. Ironically, the American Spirit may be
more alive in the illegal aliens these non-Americans want to toil for
them in the pursuit of material wealth and comfort.
We now face a financial Pearl Harbor where the pride of our economy has
been torpedoed by the non-Americans living among us. These non-Americans
want to be rewarded for their dishonesty and avarice, and their liege
princes can’t wait to deliver that reward. These non-Americans looking
for the princes to throw them a safety net don’t realize that once the
net is drawn, it is a cage. These non-Americans neither praise nor
worship the God of the American Spirit, but instead turn to a false
messiah to fill the spiritual void they themselves have created.
The American Spirit faces enemies, internal and external, determined to
snuff it out. Whether their name is Chavez, Ahdmenijad, Kim Jong-il,
Assad or Bin Laden, they all have the same hope, and that is sitting at
the bargaining table with the new non-American messiah who is ready,
willing and able to indulge his narcissism. Wooing the new messiah with
praises, lies and false promises worked before and will work again.
Dictators can be quite chummy when it comes to hood-winking the naïve
into decisions that inflate their ego at the expense of their country.
The obituary may be premature, but it is being written. Here lies the
American Spirit, Born July 4, 1776, Deceased November 4, 2008. Rest in
Peace. |
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