Turn Right At Lost
Isn’t it poetic justice that a reality TV star would be the one to slap us collectively across the face to awaken us to the fact we are truly lost?
An excerpt from the Introduction to my 2015 book, I think it is as true today as it was over ten years ago!
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If we didn’t know better, we might think this election year (2016) is just another reality TV show called ‘Animal Farm, USA.’ The 4-legged farm animals have become the 2-legged humans.
Suddenly, a TV game show host billionaire comes along and says, “We have to secure our borders. Without borders, we don’t have a country. I will build a world class wall. The finest border wall ever built. It will be easy, and I will make the Mexican government pay for it. Aren’t you tired of losing at everything?”
And with one brilliantly conceived stroke, Donald Trump sucks the air right out of the national campaign room!
The idea that one candidate, by recognizing one issue as the elephant in the room, could have so much impact on the future direction of our country is stunning. But it shouldn’t be. Illegal immigration is a microcosm of the problems every industrialized country on the planet is currently, or about to, face. The idea that borders are a thing of the past is so antithetical to the concept of civilization, of law and order, of human dignity, and of national identity, it is counter intuitive.
The impact and cost of uncontrolled migration is so enormous and widespread, it fosters a loss of controls of currency, of trade, of cultural identities, and of physical, financial and employment security. Leaving the doors to our home unlocked is just the beginning of a myriad of cascading problems, all of which are contributing to our nation’s political indigestion.
Isn’t it poetic justice that a reality TV star, an egocentric real estate developer and author of a business textbook would be the one to slap us collectively across the face to awaken us to the fact that we are truly lost. That his skill set, his highly developed system of recognizing subtle, sometimes subliminal messages would be the only one of hundreds of ‘qualified’ political leaders to seize on the single mutant cancer cell that is leading us down a dead end road to perdition?
If and when any country loses its identity by abandoning borders, refusing to enforce duly enacted laws, redistributes the hard earned assets of its indigenous citizens, it simply ceases to exist. And along with it goes the human inventory, the entrepreneurship, the initiative to achieve great things and the sense of loyalty and sacrifice any society needs to sustain its viability.
When a soldier is pinned down in a trench and realizes he is about to lose his life, he may ask, for what?
For something that everyone on the planet already has? For a lawless, uncivilized country that offers no peace, no justice and no safety for its citizens? Why not hold up the white flag of surrender and hand over your weapon and your life to your enemy? Some on the left would say, that’s a good idea, we never accomplish anything with war. So, in their mind, we would have been better off had we let Hitler run the table and dominate the world. Or perhaps it would have been Japan, or North Korea, or Russia. The point is, the only ones who ever threaten to run the world are the leftists, the statists, the communists or fascists who think they know better than the average person, and can determine just what we should all be doing in their utopia.
Just ask Napoleon, the Alpha Donkey in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
So now is the time to ask: Are we Americans lost? Do we have what it takes to admit our failures while at the same time recognizing what an important and absolutely essential element America plays in the success of civilization on mother earth? Or are we about to do what everyone did at Orwell’s Animal Farm, “The animals, watching through the window, realize with a start that, as they look around the room of the farmhouse, they can no longer distinguish which of the card players are pigs and which are human beings.”