The Time of the (Democratic-Republican) Party is Over

Submitted by M. Tovey (United States), Jul 14, 2011 at 18:41

Welcome to America; or shall we defer to the memories of times past when it meant something to declare American citizenship as an honorable thing. It seems that is part of the packaging that is being developed for future citizenship in America; or the lack of it. If one does not hold to the basic values that made this country the once respected nation of the modern age, then it may be surmised that proof of citizenship is no longer required, as millions of émigrés can attest as they collect their unearned spoils.

Like many American baby boomers, being born into a Democratic Party environment was not all that divisive then, many people having parents that voted for John Kennedy with the idea that better times could be had. But as soon as JFK was in office, things went sour and south for the Democratic Party: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the loss of First Amendment rights as regards to freedom of religious expression just before JFK paid the ultimate price.

Then Viet Nam became the scourge of TV viewing and America has never been the same since. For the millions of young men/women coming of age at that time, it would be the defining moment of thought change that many have still not reconciled yet. For reasons this reader has not yet fully understood, Viet Nam was a bullet dodged as the U.S. Military's version of the lottery came in with a winning ticket. With it, though, came the beginning of a radical series of circumstances that forever made U. S. politics as jaded as it possibly could be.

There was Nixon-Watergate to Ford. Then there was Carter-Iran to Islamic revolution. Who can forget Reagan-challenging the nuclear status quo until the umbrella of nuclear uncertainty was handed over by the Soviets to whomever who would pay the ticket to own what they once possessed with impunity. Next came Bush Sr.'s embrace with Islam, which has not subsided from then through Clinton to Bush Jr. Then Islam broke out in a major terror binge that has not ceased since. Even the current American chief executive does not present any effective means to thwart the Islamic aims against America; but at least he has told us why.

For next to fifty years, this reader became aware of and witnessed the progressive disintegration of the political processes in this country. The advancement of the republican (not the party) form of government fell to the implications of a democratic (not the party) progression of interpreting the Constitution in which the influences of the founding agents were slowly but surely replaced with modernistic humanist secular interpretations that strip the original intentions of this nation's establishment. What such progressive activists' actions in the modern government have managed to do is something that many decades of former Soviet antipathies could not get done.

It is all coming to a head; that each side is wondering when the other is going to capitulate, not realizing evidently, that their form of divisive politics is going to do both parties in. There is only one legal way to reverse the damage that has been done, and the damage that is about to be done. Yet those who have that power are exercising that power in such politically selfish fashion, it will be over before any will understand what happened. And the leadership that we need at this time that should have had the courage to do the right thing, yet they have said it is not going to happen; and we have already been told why.

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