A Dour Prediction

        by Tom Woodard

We have so few in America today who understand or appreciate the system of government our Founding Fathers set up for us in 1789, and which, up until now, has worked so faithfully and well, for over two hundred years. We are now in the second generation of politically correct ignorance, imposed upon the young by our morally corrupt, socialist public school system. As a consequence, the younger half of our population have little or no understanding, or even awareness, of how our government has worked throughout our history, up until today. Knowledge of the legislative safeguards inherent in our two house legislative body known as Congress is virtually nonexistent, and therefore, in ignorance or self-interest, virtually no protest has risen from the people over the abuse of that system over the past two or three weeks.

When I was a young man a very important song in the history of the rock era was released by a singer/songwriter named Don McLean, entitled "American Pie",with the famous refrain "the day the music died". That song came to mind yesterday, in the shadow of the upcoming vote, now completed, on the so-called economic stimulus bill before Congress. It occurs to me that this could be a day foretelling death; foretelling the day representative democracy dies in America. Every protocol of the legislative process, of debate, of deliberation and reflection, of study and collecting information, and so on, so inherent to good government, was pushed violently aside to get this abomination passed. There was no referral to committee, no committee votes, no laying on the table, no time for members of Congress to study, or even read, the over one thousand page long language of the bill.

Our ignorance of history and political science may well make us victims of the death of democracy in America, and of an abandonment of the principles and dictates which made this Country great. We are now facing the danger of being reduced to the state of an impoverished socialist government, which is committed to making a large majority of the American people so dependent upon government entitlement programs that they are no longer their own persons, but vassals of the State. We can easily become as serfs on the lands of the lords of the castles of the Middle Ages, beholden to the State for our very existence, and therefore no longer free men and women in a land of freedom. Oh, there are those of us - and we are still many in number - who are stalwarts of the democratic freedoms which we were raised to understand and appreciate, but we are largely of an older generation. The young have neither the knowledge nor experiences with which we were so richly blessed, to know and cherish freedom, and to know and cherish the price it carries.

Their children - the children of today and tomorrow - will know even less, as their politically correct history and civics texts indoctrinate them on the power and glory of the godless State, and of leaders now made Saviors, rather than mere mortal men. Freedoms of speech and press, now under relentless attack, will become virtually unknown to them. Only that which the State wishes them to "understand" will be made known to them. Congress will become a bastion of meaninglessness, mindlessly doing the bidding of the Supreme Leader, formerly known as the President of the United States. We will no longer be the United States of America, but will become the United STATE of America. This is my prediction: That in decades and centuries to come, if man is still resident upon the earth, historians may very well look back upon this time as the beginning of the end of representative democracy, and therefore of our democratic republic and democracy itself, in America. 

Our freedoms are shrinking, and the day may very well come, and soon, when we will stand to be punished for questioning or opposing the State, our ever-present, ever-watching "Big Brother". George Orwell was right, in his book "1984". He just had the date wrong. The only question I have is whether brave men and women, as done by our Founding Fathers, will stand up in the face of tyranny and possible death to speak out against this destruction of all that was once held sacred - and still held sacred my many - in this beloved Nation of ours.

Power to the people! Freedom, now and forever! God bless America, as we fight to restore her to her former glory among nations. As Patrick Henry, of Virginia, once proclaimed "But as for me, give me Liberty or give me Death!" Let us embrace that creed, and be willing to back it up with our very lives if necessary. We owe our Country, and our children's children, no less.

Copyright February 13th, 2009, by Tom Woodard

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