Is America A Figment of Our Forgotten Past?
Emotional scars affect us sometimes more than we think.
You may be able to get over being robbed by some local thief. The broken window of your car and the missing envelope of cash you had placed in your glovebox overnight. The cash you had just earned in tips working at a local restaurant. It was $400 of hard earned tip money.
When you went to your car Sunday morning and saw the shattered window, you knew right away, it had to be someone nearby. A neighbor or someone close to you had to have watched you. It was not routine for you to leave large amounts of cash in the glovebox, but the night before after your shift, you did sit in the driveway, count your money, and deliberately lean over and stuffed the envelope into the glovebox. Someone had to have been watching!
You hated losing the money, which was a lot to a 19 year-old. But even worse, you felt violated!
You guessed your 18-year-old neighbor was the only viable suspect, but there was absolutely nothing you could do because the evidence was gone. Going to the police would not work because they would simply say, “how do we know there ever was any money?”
You may think you are over the night, after your 15th birthday, when your mother protected your dad after he punched you in the face for violating his curfew. She saw it happen and later rationalized it by suggesting he had a hard day at work. She lost your love and trust on that day. Now, years later, on Mothers Day, you are kissing her, handing her flowers and a card that praises her mothering skills. You are desperately trying to forget her betrayal. But deep down inside, you still resent her willingness to accept something so evil. Plus, you know, and so does she, his abuse was much more common and sick than that incident alone.
Everyone has deep seated resentment over something. Some memories hurt more than others. For some, their whole lives have been altered by betrayals, abuse or abandonment. Some victims can never establish long-term relationships, especially if they suffered sexual abuse.
Whether it is being victimized by family, or criminals, or even by people of authority, victimhood is real. Emotional scars affect us sometimes more than we think.
As a Nation, a collective of people all living together, trying to stay alive, to raise families, to provide a better future for our children, we are also vulnerable to scarring. I have said over and over, as a 13 year-old, I was scarred by the assassination of JFK. Five decades later, his public murder still haunts me.
Since 9/11, I have made the case that our nation was traumatized by the violence of the attack on the Twin Towers. The complete incapacitation of Manhattan, of the airline industry, of the continuing Fear Porn of the Middle East Islamic Jihad and the Radical Islamic Revolution. Then it was Climate Change, the War On Whiteness, the Feminist Movement, and now the War On Gender Assignment. As a white, conservative male I have a target on my back.
Let’s not forget the COVID19 Pandemic: The War On Socialization. Everyone was treated like sheep. The Elites of the World demonstrated just how little they respect human dignity.
One calamity after another, our nation has been undergoing an Emotional Breakdown ever since.
We are all wounded emotionally, though most will not acknowledge the damage. Instead we self-medicate with alcohol and drugs, rich food, gambling and spending addictions and entertainment obsessions.
We protect our interests by living in a bubble that we have constructed to block out the bad memories and to submerge ourselves in positive thoughts. We don’t think of ourselves as victims. At least not consciously.
But the truth is out there if you are willing to look outside your bubble…
Look at how the privileged act in the privacy of their gated mansions. Literally dozens, every day, are being accused and arrested for acts of physical abuse and sexual deviancy. Rich celebrities are raising, in distorted numbers, emotionally damaged, angry, resentful, and often sexually confused and alienated kids. Dozens of politicians, who have discovered amazing sources of great wealth while working inside the public services arena, are being accused of, and often convicted of corruption. Wealthy and brilliant scientists, authors, academics and financial gurus, are committing suicide at astronomical rates. Every major televised event (Super Bowl, Oscars, Grammys, Olympics) is saturated with Satanic imagery of a sexual nature. Millions of unborn babies are terminated simply because the parents want to avoid the ‘hassles” of children.
We don’t venerate life like we used to.
If people of great means are so uncomfortable in their own skin, how do you think struggling Americans feel?
Lower and middle income citizens are unable to participate in home ownership, to travel, to attend college, to start a business or a family. The 21st century is turning out to be the complete opposite of the 20th century in America. We are reverting to a two-tiered society with a small portion enjoying great wealth and the other suffering like slaves on a plantation. They get what is necessary to survive, but not enough to thrive.
Millions of children and citizens are simply disappearing off the face of the Earth. The Census reports are stunning: Birthrates are under the rate required to sustain our species. Marriage is a dying institution. Our schools have failed to produce literate young adults. Americans no longer recognize religion as a core value.
Make America Great Again is considered by many to be a Republican (white men only) trope to suggest our nation would return to a time when racism ruled, when women were dismissed as second class citizens and gay people were beaten and imprisoned.
To me, that viewpoint is simply another way to redefine, dismiss and destroy what on the surface is a movement to restore America’s original identity: One Nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for ALL!
My point is: In the course of history, mankind sustains some gains and losses. We suffer epidemics, earthquakes, hurricanes, wars, and financial collapses, but we also discover important advances in technology, in medicine, in agriculture, even in personal improvement techniques.
The key is to keep the gains ahead of the losses and to overcome our emotional frailties to keep us moving ahead. I don’t suggest it’s better to forget our setbacks, because if you don’t learn from them, it is too easy to repeat them. But I do think it important to keep them in perspective.
I have explored the concept of ‘Perspecticide’ in my previous publications. It is a term to describe the “murder of one’s perspective”. How it is possible for negative forces to literally steal a personality and replace it with a different one. That goes for both our individual personality and our collective cultural personality.
That repurposing of a personality occurs when the assailant wipes the victims memory clean by reframing their history. Programming a new agenda, a new Operating System, so to speak. One they can control for their own benefit.
This is what is happening to America. Slowly but surely America’s enemies are redefining our Nation’s history, replacing pride with guilt, demanding ‘equity’ for everyone at the expense of merit, undermining our nations foundational institutions of the right to own property, to carry a weapon, to speak out against government, to travel freely and to practice your religion without government interference.
When our election system, whose purpose is to reflect the personality of America, is stolen, it can be altered. It can be reprogrammed. Therefore, stealing an election is the Ultimate Act of War on America. If we have become so distracted, so isolated by our personal and collective bubbles, that we can’t even acknowledge the hijacking of our Government by abusive forces, then we are doomed to become the victims of coercive abuse.
Unless we wake up, recognize the crime of election corruption as the Murder of our American Identity, and hold those responsible accountable for their Capitol Crimes Against Our Nation, it will be the end of our American Soul.
To truly make America great again, we must first and foremost, reestablish the accuracy and legitimacy of our election system. Otherwise, America will become just another figment of our forgotten past.