Oh My! I went back to see this video again to see how it played after the elections.
The last phrase touched me the most. “If I wanted America to fail, I wouldn’t change a thing.”
Obviously, the general elections showed us that Americans are trying to make changes. The next two years will be interesting to watch.
That video certainly sums up my thoughts. What we have is two Americas. One, a traditional
“can do” America which believes in “American Exceptionalism” and supports our traditional Judeo-Christian heritage with its Adam Smith free market economies. The other America sees our history and our nature as ugly, menacing, genocidal. They see the United States as a Christian fiction and an empirical hegemon consuming the world’s resources as it bullies other peoples of the world. With their superior intellect and ideologies, they believe that Big Government can put right the evils wrought by the Judeo-Christian and free market beliefs. This dichotomy of two Americas goes straight to the Cain and Abel heart of human nature.
I fear that we, as a people, have turned away from our Christian roots which underpin our the foundation of our Republic. John Adams warned us, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=63
Every day we see our Constitution twisted by the “unbridled human passions” of lust, greed, corruption and depravity. The country is on a downward spiral and before long, will be unrecognizable.
I do see the two dichotomies, and it isn’t just R’s and D’s. It goes way beyond that. I hope you are wrong about the last sentence, but fear you are not.