Not long ago, people around the world looked to America as an example of the freedom they desired to call their own. The country was a beacon for the oppressed. Some died or risked death on barbed wire to escape and work their way to the United States. Americans were proud of what they represented and strove to provide assistance for the unfortunate at home and abroad.
Then the political winds in America shifted and withered freedom on the desert of religious intolerance as a new and narrowly focused group took power through corrupt manipulation of elections and with the wealth of corporations hungry to dominate American lives, to deplete American resources and fatten the calves of their personal greed.
Less than a decade later, the beacon once symbolized by Lady Liberty, has moved off American shores and across oceans. While at home, Americans struggle to live the lives of their fathers and are blinded by media that controls and occupies them with celebrity news, vile criminal activities, dress codes in Southern Cities. This growing and perverse practice suppresses individual rights with mind numbing simplicity and astonishing success.
Electronic gadgets flood American mentality with unnecessary chatter and images, digital violence, quick opportunities for instant wealth and fame, and young minds lose the hunger to explore the knowledge of the world around them, the possibilities once expected and accepted as normal for any American.
Americans look on the outside as they did before these changes, however there’s a noticeable difference, a different and desperate drive. The insatiable demand for food, entertainment, pleasure, not concern that life in America is being altered slowly into an oppressive theocracy run by the billionaire elite, held up by the hot air of promised wealth built on the intangible credit and hope that controls Wall Street and Main Street.
Instant gratification replaces Mom and apple pie, life expectancy declines, slovenly obesity, over gratification, and selfish expectation is the new image of America for the rest of the world.
Once you could walk down Main Street and taste freedom in the air, feel its life nourishing benefits in your mind and soul. Now, the NSA, FBI and who knows what other branch of government, can spy on any American at will without cause greater than vague suspicion, and a barbed wire nightmare wraps tightly around all Americans. It’s a slow relentless process that has succeeded with everything the new oppressors accomplished until now, and to those of us who love our country and the freedoms once freely available and defended through sacrifice and sharing, it is unendurable and must come to an abrupt end.
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