We are a mess today. Our society is so divisive, so polarized, that many don't have a clue how to fix it. The problem is, there is no quick fix, for this problem has been years, decades, in the making. A large part of the problem has been steeped in good intentions- our desire to make life easier for our children- and in doing so we have created a weaker, less resolute generation susceptible to societal inflences detrimental to our nation's founding principles.
We are a capitalistic society, based on the principles that anyone could succeed if they just have the drive, the chutzpah, to stay with it. My grandfather, my father, exemplified this and I learned from them. Yet society as a whole moved in a different direction. The 1960's was a decade of free love and experimentation. It churned out a generation of permissible, weak adults who didn't raise their kids as much as allowing schools and society to mold them. And our institutions of higher education were already teaching humanism and the root principles of socialism by the 1990's.
Our base problem is this; the progressive left in society now teaches that everyone should get the same opportunities as everyone else. They believe that there should be wealth equality, or the rich pay more so we have more to give to the poor. In the name of "social justice" they are undermining the very tenets that made our country great. They build social programs on the backs of these ideas to lure in the lower and middle class with promises of getting stuff "free". Well, there is no free. These tenets they are pushing are found in the fundamentals of socialism and Marxism and if history teaches us anything it us that these fundamentals are abject failures where ever they have been tried.
Look at Venezuela, one of the richest nations in natural resources in the world. Twenty years ago Chavez promised many of these same things and today the vast majority of Venezuelans are poverty level poor and poorer, many dumpster diving for food and subsistence. The same ideology was preached in Cuba and today the country is in turmoil and ripe for revolution. Socialism, communism, Marxism doesn't work because there is no incentive to make it work. It strips the population of their self esteem, their self worth and creates a dual society of the vastly wealthy and the poor. No socialistic country has had a middle class that lasted any length of time, for it is always a casualty of socialism and Marxism.
So what is the answer? We need to return to what made us great that human spirit that said anyone could succeed if they just try hard enough. We need to quit handing people " freebies", for the bill to pay for those will one day come due. We have already mortgaged our children's economic future and the out of control spending taking place in government today is fast mortgaging our grand children's future as well. Everyone is equal, but not everyone is the same. Saying that doesn't make me racist or bigoted, or any of the -phobes the left wants to to label me with. No, it makes me honest for calling it as it is. If you work 60 hours a week and provide a good home for your family and I live off of government assistance and barely scrape by we may be equal as human beings, but we are not the same. You have taken command of your life, your future, and you are getting somewhere while I live off handouts from the government which strips me of my self esteem and personal worth. Take away my handouts and I have nothing. That is my fault and I have it within myself to change it. We all do, we just need to be reeducated on how to tap into it.
It is going to take time to fix our problems for we have to go back to the basics, we need to teach our upcoming generations these principles again. You are your own success story. No one can give you success, you earn it. We've lost that truth in our progressive humanistic Marxist teaching which now permeates all levels if education. We need to stop teaching our kids these lies and teach them their world is only limited by the limits of their imagination. Success isn't regulated by the color of your skin or the social strata you were born into no, success is for those who choose to stand up and take it. We are our greatest hope, and yet today we are our greatest enemy. We need to conquer ourselves to have the hope of attaining our vast potential...
Food for thought...
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