Image via WikipediaThe heroism of George Washington has long expired. The tsunami of Big-government Washington is gaining on us. It won't be pretty …
The way I see it, it's all over but the shouting. The shouting is just getting started. But none of it will matter when the big-government tsunami that is bearing down on us sweeps away our American traditions of self-reliance, individual accountability, and cooperative efforts for the good of the Nation. That proverbial fat-lady has already sung the first stanza of our American requiem.
As George Washington and his Founding Brothers ushered in the great socio-political and economic experiment in republican government, the inexorable forces of individual human failings began chipping away at its miraculous foundations. And though 100-year heroic interventions by the likes of Abraham Lincoln in national leadership and Albert Einstein in scientific innovation have extended the age of optimism that followed, the unbounded growth of the federal government has stormed beyond the point of no-return.
It is no longer conceivable to me that we can muster sufficient national will to reign in the beast. Where once it was possible to reach a modicum of consensus on issues of national importance, such as defeating Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, we are now trapped in a cacophony of babble emanating from hundreds of millions of voices and resonating in the grand echo-chamber of the internet. Yes, I admit to my 2-cents worth.
The great issues of our time will resolve themselves. But I doubt very much the resolution will resemble a coherent plan. With the kinds of weasels who currently slither into positions of power, the kind that would throw their grandmother under the bus sooner than listen to her old-wives tales, nothing of creative substance can be accomplished anymore. The best we can hope for is that the inevitable downsizing of our standard of living will settle above the level of survival.
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