By P.H. Rolen
The world is moving on. I realized this morning when I browsed through the Associated Press that truth is almost completely indiscernible in today’s world. “Jobless Claims Drop Unexpectedly” the headline rang out. The funny thing is that today marks the third time in five weeks that I have read nearly the same article. The first week that I read it jobless claims were touted as improving at 545,000. Today, jobless claims “Dropped unexpectedly” to…… 545,000. I seem to remember my third grade math teacher explicitly saying that a decline is a number less than the one previous. I really want to believe that I am wrong; that I am just not grasping the totality of economic nuances. I really want to believe that our independent news media is just that, independent, and that we the people have not devolved so much as to fall for the operation of a quasi ministry of truth. Regardless of what I would like to believe, I can’t escape the cognitive dissonance any longer. Here is the cold truth of America’s national reality.
We are living in a time where the news media promotes the government agenda and does not report the news as it is. A time where the death toll of our soldiers continues to rise and our generals ask for more material support, yet find a political leadership unable, perhaps unwilling to offer any. In today’s world dissent is dismissed as racism and reckless spending is accepted as a solution to economic woes. This is a time where logic has been abandoned by academia and the most irrational, and illogical solution is touted as creative and innovative. When our major national creditors voiced concern for our massive debt, our solution was to borrow twice as much. When our foreign adversaries duped us time and again, tested nuclear weapons, blackmailed us for concessions, and mocked us publicly, we abandoned wisdom and conceded more, giving an inch as well as a mile.
As tough times have demanded tough resolve we have offered feeble solutions and soft fortitude. Failing businesses have been saved with tax dollars without a shred of demand for a reformation of the practices which resulted in failure. As profits have fallen and jobs have fled overseas we have not moved to stem the tide, we have reinforced and empowered the greedy institutions which forced the exodus. Just today we learned that a resurgent Russia who has attacked her neighbors, resumed bomber flights over Europe, extorted her neighbors with heating oil cut-offs, and encouraged nuclear development within the world’s most dangerous regimes, will be rewarded for such behavior at the expense of our allies with the threat of Moscow’s nuclear arsenal.
In these historic times we the citizens of the world’s last superpower are embracing our demise; in fact celebrating that demise as a giant leap forward. We are so caught up in our petty little traps of race and gender, Democrat and Republican, that we can no longer discern truth and reality. America has abandoned reason for madness and our misunderstanding of history is preparing society for a massive rerun. In the late 1700’s King Louis the XV of France was in failing health, stricken with smallpox, and time was growing short. In his life Louis is credited with the statement “Apres moi le deluge” or “After me come the floods.” Louis understood very well that France’s exorbitant debt, burgeoning social problems, and precarious foreign policy were unsustainable and disaster loomed once someone without his vision and understanding of the problem took the reigns. “The Sun King”, as Louis the XV was known, died in 1774. A little over a decade later France had slipped into revolution and the period in history known as “the reign of terror” subsequently began. The further we get into the Obama presidency the more apparent it becomes that Obama is indeed no Sun King. We are fortunate because the difference in today from Louis the XV’s time is that the American people have the opportunity to realize the grim facts and demand the changes that we all know will prevent the flood. What worries me is that I am beginning to feel sprinkles and the demand which is required has not yet materialized. Wake up America, time stops for no nation. Is there not a leader left in our country?
