I would like to start off by giving the utmost credit to a monologue done by Jeff Daniels, who plays Will McAvoy in the Newsroom television show. This monologue sincerely sparked an internal revolution consisting of; anger, jealousy, sadness and fear. Below is the monologue that I hope sparks the same kind of emotions it did for me. For these emotions will be deeply connected with everything I will write here.
"It’s not the greatest country in the world professor, that’s my answer.
Sharon, the NEA is a loser, yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paycheck but he gets to hit you with it any time he wants. It doesn't cost money, it costs votes, it costs air time, it costs column inches. You know why people don’t like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so smart, how come they lose so god damn always?
*Turns to conservative pundit*
And with a straight face you’re going to tell students that America is so star spangled awesome that we’re the only ones in the world that have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, BELGIUM has freedom.
So, 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.
And you, sorority girl, just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day there’s some things you should know. One of them is there’s absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we’re the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, Number 4 in labor force and Number 4 in exports, we lead the world in only three categories: Number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies.
Now none of this is the fault of a 20 year old college student, but you none the less are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Yosemite?
It sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chests. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world’s greatest artists and the world’s greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men, we aspired to intelligence, we didn't belittle it, it didn't make us feel inferior.
We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election and we didn't scare so easy. We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed, by great men, men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore. Enough?”
If that doesn't somehow cause you to become upset and or angry about what has happened and is happening to our great nation, then I honestly do not know what to say. What is said above is some hard truths being presented to us and it is difficult to swallow. To make you feel a little more worse about our country's situation, we are 26th in child well-being, 24th in literacy, 19th in perceived honesty, 27th in leisure and personal care, 17th in happiness, 16th in manufacturing compensation costs and 125th in GDP growth per capita, but hey look on the bright side, we are 1st in wine consumption, 1st in plastic surgery and breast augmentations.
What has happened to our nation and continues to happen to our nation, is no where near the ideals our Founders envisioned for the future generations. Per my previous post, our Founders gave us plenty of hints and advice for the future and how to keep our country going in the right direction. John Q Adams, might not have been one of our Founders but a son of one. He was raised and taught right on what this country stands for and needs to do to survive. During his speech to the House of Representatives, July 4, 1821 these are the most important issues he spoke of; "She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights.
She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own.
She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.
She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right.
Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.
But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force....
She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....
[America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
It seems we have gone far down the wrong path. Our nation, that is led by these irresponsible leaders of ours, have entered into conflicts with other nations constantly and do this by sending our nation's children to war. With these conflicts, our attention has been taken off the main issues. We no longer have the industrial abilities we once had, that made us the greatest nation the world has ever seen, at the time. We were creating cures for diseases, helping others, fighting poverty in the right way, jobs were everywhere, the standard of living was great, the cost of living was great, the education system was great, and our honor was unbreakable.
Yet through agendas of the powers that be, we have fallen in every category in world rankings. Our leaders continue to push new taxes, new regulations, new bills, new laws upon us, that we are crumbling under the weight. It is up to us the citizens now, to make this right, to correct our path, to fix our nation and restore the Republic, so that future generations will have a place to be proud to call home!
Do we dare, go silently into the night and watch this once great light parish into darkness? Or do we start the march to restoration and internal healing?
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