Now to make America Great Again will take much more than Trump
The election is over and Kamala is, as I write this, giving her concession speech.
Most Americans, I dare say, will go to sleep for the next 1-1/2 to almost 2 years, until the next election involving candidates for Congress. But it is the worse thing to do, as leaving Trump to Make America Great Again, will have mediocre results at best.
No, I’m not maligning Trump or doubting this drive or focus.
But in four years, we’ll have another election for President. Maybe JD will run or Vivek on the Republican side. Maybe Michelle will be convinced to run for the Democrats. But without patriots doing their job, the election in 2028 will once again pit socialists against Republicans (not the party, but those desiring to live in a free society ruled by law, not by the majority or by the minority).
We have, since the 1960s, been taking a hike down the 6-lane road that ends with a centalized, socialist regime firmly in control, not much different than Mussolini’s Italy, Lenin’s Russia or Castro’s Cuba. Americans have, by and large, been taught to desire and love socialism as they see it as better at helping the poor and down trodden.
History doesn’t show this, however. History shows government to be a poor steward of its money and a worse manager of the issues. Government is great at grabbing for more power – power that is never enough. That’s why the Founders of the United States rejected Democracy or other types of government where the government shackles the citizenry. Instead, the government was the one to be shackled – shackled, chained, kept on the short leash the Constitution gives it.
A couple of paragraphs previous I noted we’ve been marching toward a socialist ‘utopia’ since the 1960s. Actually, this march toward socialism began in Teddy Roosevelt’s Administration. Wilson pushed it further while FDR turned the Republic into a socialist country.
Which leaves many Americans more loyal to Washington with its countless rules and regulations than they are to God. After all, Washington provides birth control, parenting help, education, a large percentage of the jobs throughout the nation, housing, medical care, and social security when you retire.
Rather than trusting in God like Americans did until the 1930s, FDR worked to make Washington God.
Yes, the work is long. Turning a country which has been struck by the shiny baubles socialism promises while turning its back on what made it great has been in the works for 110 years. With government providing the education, teaching our young-uns there is no god but Washington, it will take 30-50 years to return the USA to its Greatness. By greatness I mean what Tocqueville found when he visiting the United States in 1831.
True, Americans whose ideology is in line with the Founders, men like Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Samuel Adams, and more can show us the way, but we must be willing to follow.
Not for 4 years.
Not for 12 years.
But for an eternity, should we desire the experiment in self-governance to thrive and reign for as long as there is Earth.
Yes, truly, making America Great Again will take much more than Trump.
