You have probably heard about the latest assaults on our freedom and liberties by Washington DC. Of course, I am referring to the Health Care Reform and Cap and Trade Bills.Each bill represents TRILLIONS of dollars (MORE) than we are already dumping on the backs of our children and grandchildren (and most likely their great-grandchildren). Both bills are nothing more than incredibly corrupt power grabs, dressed-up and sold to us as what we need IMMEDIATELY!!, to allegedly create a better America and save the world from "global warming" etc. etc. etc. But believe me, the ones pushing this latest wave of insanity on us and our descendants are (and will for generations be) laughing all the way to the bank.
My fellow Americans, we are all being duped.
Even those who believe they are more open-minded and aware of the "real truth" about what's going on, because they tune in to NPR or PBS, rather than the mainstream media... they are being totally hoodwinked.
It is our own lack of careful consideration and questioning or vigilance, as Jefferson put it, that leads us to believe we are getting the "real story". It is our own unchecked trust in those with whom we have aligned ourselves - questioning only the other side and never our own or ourselves - which has brought us to our present state of idealogical obstanance.
It's not that we're stupid, it's just that we have forgotten or we never learned the most important intellectual and spiritual discipline - to continually question the veracity of everything we are being told, no matter how much we want to believe it.
We have forgotten this because we really want to believe that the people delivering the news and information (and even entertainment) to us are pretty much good people, who take their reporting and/or their jobs seriously and who themsleves are doing all of the hard questioning... so we don't really have to. We want to think of them as friends - people we can relate to - people we can trust - because they seem trustworthy and genuine. They seem to really care about us (at least in a general sense) and about representing what's real and true. We also often admire them for their courage and their success and we respect them and we like them.
So, in the process of "connecting" with people, whether in our day-to-day lives or through the media, we become increasingly less able to question them or what they are apparently thinking... Hence, we become aligned with them and we become loyal to them.
We also believe it is important and even noble to support and stand with others of like-mind. We believe it is good to belong to a cause or "the side" that we believe is right... It gives us a sense of purpose and identity. We feel we are contributing to society by holding our ground on issues and defending what we believe is right. In fact, it seems critical to our role as a Human Being!
But there is a problem...
There is a nagging possibility...
Is it possible that over the course of our lives we have been gradually mesmerized into believing blatant lies, in the form of masterfully presented propaganda, delvered with surgical precision to appear "honest", "non-biased" or even "counter cultural"?
This is how propaganda has always worked to manipulate the masses.
Here's the bottom-line problem:
Because most of us are relatively decent people ourselves, we tend to believe that other people are good and decent, but we are mistaken as we are missing what typically happens to men and women as they rise in positions of power and influence... they simply want more and more of it.
Ninety-five percent of our elected representatives, along with many equally greedy and corrupt corporate board members, are ultimately nothing more than puppets, who, due to their naturally escalating desire for money, power and respect etc., join with and allow themselves to be illegally manipulated by much more powerful corporate interests and international financial moguls and institutions (such as Goldman Sachs and GE etc.). These sad, godless creeps at the very top have been both creating and seizing every pseudo-crisis as an opportunity, wildly yet artfully distorting the real truth about each - its cause and its "only" solution - by way of their immense media influence i.e. playing on the ever-shortening attention-spans, base-emotions and general ignorance of the typical, hard-working American, with regard to the "complex issues" of our time.
Primarily through this incremental media and advertising onslaught (especially over the past fifty years or so), by lulling us all into a comfortable, hapless slumber, these Wall Street fat-cats and politicians have been convincing us that the big issues are too difficult for us "little people" to understand, thereby they and their "experts" have succeeded in defining "reality" for us - THEIR REALITY - again defining for us the causes for what they deem "crisis" and the "only possible solutions". Solutions that somehow, conveniently suit THEIR agenda... but of course, they don't spend billions advertising that last part.
Think about it:
There are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who only really care about what is objectively right, above all else, and those who reveal a willingness to compromise it (here and there) in order to accomplish what they want or to further a lesser agenda that THEY think is right.
No matter how much a "leader", who might be suspected of belonging to the latter group, says something we can relate to or leads us to believe that they care about us and others less fortunate etc. etc., if they have shown a consistent lack of willingness to represent and defend only what is objectively right (which can only come through TRUE humility and obedience to God) then they simply cannot be trusted to lead by what is indeed objectively right for ALL people.
Further, as a leader here in America, without continually evidencing their singular allegiance to the principles of "liberty and justice FOR ALL", then we can logically conclude that whatever other foundation that they build their principles upon, by definition, is intrinsically flawed. Thus, we can deduce that all they are ultimately interested in is increasing their own power money and influence. That is, as elected representatives of "We the People" if they were truly committed to defending the God-given rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" of EVERY American citizen, then they could never support or represent anything but what is objectively right, as defined not by them, but by God, as laid-out very clearly in our Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
The answer is indeed change, but the change needed is for each of us to seriously question how smart we have been - assuming that information sources that we have relied upon have really been objective and totally fair and completely willing to fairly examine ALL sides of every issue rather than defend and/or support only the side that we're on. Yes, it is time to change in the way that we ourselves need to seriously question what we are being force-fed even by those who promise "change" as if to somehow relieve us from our own EQUAL responsibility, as American citizens, to educate ourselves, stay vigilent and always be ready to stand up and defend what we believe is right, by God, not by our own, politically-correct view of the world. We need to change by disciplining ourselves to unplug from and start seriously questioning the newspapers, mainstream media, PBS and NPR (all government/corpporate sponsored and manipulated). We need to change our emotionally-based habits of looking only to those friends and even family members we have always agreed with, for information and back-up or support, and instead, look elsewhere for a "change", for information that might actually challenge our mindset and stretch us to consider what we have been unwilling to consider before. We need to change in these ways, so that through this openness, to all sides of the issues, we make ourselves stronger and more aware as individuals, thereby making America stronger as we help re-establish her on her, most noble founding principles. The answer is for each of us to change our way of life and our thinking about what's really important... changing how much we care about each other and about our country, which as Lincoln said was "Earth's last best hope...". We need to change by remembering this and meditating on what Lincoln meant by it and deprogramming ourselves from what our often corrupted educational system has done, for reasons unfit to even explore, to try to make many of us forget it.
Here is an article about the Health Care Reform Bill (or Health Care Destruction Bill) and a petition which I hope you will take a minute to sign (it actually took me about ten seconds).
But you can help stop The Madness.
Please take a minute to sign this petition keeping Government control OUT of Health Care.
http://www.freeourhealthcarenow.com/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123655590609066021.html
