America on the brink – it’s up to it citizens

Thomas Fields

Thomas “Tuffy” Fields is an author and regular contributor to The Gazette. He can be reached by email at thelouisianaexplorer@yahoo.com.

We have just been introduced to a future that is full of enjoyment, lollipops, life without stress, success without work, rainbows and unicorns. The new world order for America is not one of freedom to attempt to achieve, it is a roadmap of mediocrity where freedom to pursue personal happiness is suppressed. In a country where government control, regulations and legislation, is rampant and has become the law of the land; in a country where prior regulations has led to discomfort for the population we find government enacting additional rules in an attempt to fix prior mistakes. This is done without regard to what the individual desires. The government knows best and instead of the government being given authority by the consent of the governed the government becomes the all-knowing and all controlling body that no longer governs but instead dictates. The first major blunder our government made was the “anti-inflation act” that should have been named the “massive inflation act” that helped to cause a spike in inflation that we have only witnessed since the early 1980s. This failed policy is now leading to even more government involvement as there is a proposal to regulate food costs, a disaster in the making and we will then move closer to becoming a Venezuela/Cuba/China. In essence we become Socialist and with the suppression of Religion and Speech America will become the beacon of Communism.
The following is an article that was published a year or so ago. Today this is even more appropriate than when first written. I never thought that the future of America would be in such a distressful situation.
“America was founded on freedom; freedom to choose. freedom to express oneself and freedom to try.  Today we are in a delima in our great and proud nation.  We find ourselves under attack.   This attack is not from a humiliated former power Russia or from an ambitious expanding modern empire China.  This attack is on our principals of honor and justice and the attack comes from within America in the form of proposed social engineering; Socialism.
The forces we face today seem to be a twenty-first century invention. This is far from the truth. The right of Americans to choose was addressed over a hundred years ago.  The following is an excerpt of a speech that addressed the perils of socialism delivered by President Theodore, Teddy, Roosevelt on August 12th, 1912.
“The great fundamental issue now before our people can be stated briefly. It is, ‘“Are the American people fit to govern themselves, to rule themselves, to control themselves?”’ I believe they are; my opponents do not. I believe in the right of the people to rule. I believe that the majority of the plain people of the United States will, day in and day out, make fewer mistakes in governing themselves than any smaller class or body of men, no matter what their training, will make in trying to govern them. I believe, again, that the American people are, as a whole, capable of self-control, and of learning by their mistakes. Our opponents pay lip-loyalty to this doctrine, but they show their real beliefs by the way in which they champion every device to make the nominal rule of the people a sham. I am not leading this fight as a matter of aesthetic pleasure. I am leading because somebody must lead, or else the fight would not be made at all. I prefer to work with moderate, with rational-conservatives, provided only that they do in good faith strive forward towards the light. But when they halt and turn their backs to the light, and sit with the scorners on the seats of reaction, then I must part company with them. We the people cannot turn back. Our aim must be steady, wise progress”
It is strange to read the irony in the speech and this identifies how political points-of-view change from party over time.  Roosevelt references the conservatives as the political policy that embraced socialistic rule without self-choice at the time of his speech.  Today this is a polar opposite as is is the liberal left wing that embraces socialism.
Roosevelt did provide a glimpse of optimism as he closed his speech.  He went on to say, “There is no danger of a revolution in this country; but there is grave discontent and unrest, and in order to remove them there is need of all the wisdom and probity and deep- seated faith in and purpose to uplift humanity we have at our command. Friends, our task as Americans is to strive for social and industrial justice, achieved through the genuine rule of the people. This is our end, our purpose. The methods for achieving the end are merely expedients, to be finally accepted or rejected, according as actual experience shows that they work well or ill. But in our hearts we must have this lofty purpose, and strive for it in all earnestness and sincerity, or our work will come to nothing. In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares where he is sent, where his life is proffered in order that the victory may be won. In the long fight for righteousness the watchword for all of us is “spend and be spent.”’
God Bless America. God Save the Ukraine and Pray for Israel.