Where Have All the Americans Gone?

WANTED: President of large country on the verge of adopting socialism. Need to take country over the top. Rudimentary knowledge of economic terms and foreign policy preferred, but not required. Ability to articulate grandiose ideas in English language a plus, but not mandatory if applicant can fake it sufficiently to impress ignorant voters. Must look good in a suit, and be willing to shamelessly pander to desperate, needy people.

Ahhh, so that’s how we ended up with President Obama.

I have often reflected that there is little actual reason for Americans to place their trust, faith, or hope in any President of the United States. Here is why: in reality, the President exercises both too much and too little power. Too much, because the Executive Branch has stepped far outside of its legitimate constitutional role. But in the world of perception, he also exercises too little power: the degree to which most Americans believe that the President controls what happens in both our government and our economy is laughable. So the individual who serves as the President of the United States should not matter to Americans as much as it does.

But not enough Americans even question this. Few point out the reality of this great deceit, least of all the President himself. And of course, our Senators and Congressmen happily go along with this perception: it gives them good cover. Yet if Americans really took a good look at the despicable collection of charlatans who are controlling our national purse-strings, they would all be dumped quite justifiably. It is an incestuous and dangerous relationship that we are witnessing.  Rather than acting as a check on Executive Power as our Founding Fathers intended, our current legislature is handing the President control of the United States on a silver platter.  So much for checks and balances. So much for the United States Constitution.

Do you really think that one man sitting in the Oval Office should control the fate of the United States? HA! But the sad truth is, he can, if we allow it. And that means we are in deep trouble,  because right now, the man who is sitting in that Oval Office not only believes, arrogantly, that he does run the entire country, but that he ought to run the country, and that he is capable of doing it. And Americans seem to be going along with it.

This is all part of a President’s megalomaniacal tendencies.  Only someone with an unbelievably inflated view of himself could endure a presidential race and still hold his head up. And only a narcissist could not be embarrassed and appalled by the near-worship our current President seems to inspire in our more vacant-minded voters.

The future and well-being of 300 million people should never depend upon one man. The fact that we are letting Obama and his cohorts in Congress, abetted by an even more ignorant and agenda-driven press, continue to perpetrate this farce of leadership and governance means that we are already deep into the socialist mire that we thought we foreswore over 40 years ago. It means that we have ceded too much power to that man, and to that Central Committee we call Congress.

Many people believe that the right to vote for these people means that we are free. But that freedom is illusory when anyone in either the Democratic party or the Republican party adopts the position that their duty is to tell Americans what they ought to think and to do. And that is what is happening.  Essentially, our elected officials are deciding exactly where every dollar we earn should be spent. The more we trust these people, and the more we allow our fellow Americans to place their trust in these people, the more we are surrendering our freedom. For what? Under the current regime, we will not even obtain security.

This is the hallmark of socialism. Take a look around. People are actually begging for Obama and the rest of that resource-sapping behemoth of a federal government to provide a solution to their woes. They are debating between themselves which ideas are going to work, and which ideas are going to fail. They are debating about which of these ideas, regardless of merit, will be implemented by a Congress whose entire track-record demonstrates an uninterrupted history of mishandling, misdirecting, and porking out every single piece of legislation they pass. They are debating as though the government is responsible for America’s success as a country. They are debating as though effective results can be achieved not through leadership, commitment, and a willingness to undertake difficult and unpleasant tasks, but through pandering, cronyism, and salesmanship. People are serious. People are passionate. And they are wasting their time.

The reality is: no President and no politician can really help America if every American behaves like a weak, powerless sheep within a flock of weak, powerless sheep. Sure, it would be nice to just put our heads down and graze while somebody else takes care of the wolves, but to do that Americans need to be sure that the shepherds’ interests coincide with the sheep’s. And right now, they don’t. Right now, the shepherds are negotiating with the wolves over how to divide the mutton.

The only way America is going to get out of this mess is if Americans completely divorce themselves from reliance upon the government for a solution. This is not to say that there is no solution; in fact, there are some really bright minds out there talking about the economy. But who is listening to them? Who is supporting them? Not our political leadership. No, instead our political leadership is so caught up in their desperate drive to do something lest they risk losing their death-grip on power that they will never honestly concede their own ignorance.

The bottom line, America, is this:  if you want to ride a bicycle, do you read a book about it, or do you learn from someone who can ride a bicycle then get on the bike and ride yourself? Because right now, America is hanging its future on a bunch of people who not only do not know how to ride, they haven’t even read a book on the subject, let alone written one.

It is patently stupid for Americans to put their faith in Obama and this Congress to resolve the economic meltdown we are experiencing. It is just this sort of head-in-the-sand trust of our government that got us where we are. What experience does Obama have running anything? Where is his successful track record? And where is the history lesson can he point to that shows—anywhere—that spending over a trillion dollars on projects that produce NOTHING that anyone would willingly pay for will somehow revive a tanking economy? Is that the model Germany and Japan followed to overcome the economic devastation they suffered after World War II? Hardly. Sony, Mitsubishi, Porsche, and Siemens do not produce “shovel ready” infrastructure projects. They produce things that people buy. They produce . . . wealth and prosperity.

Let the deadbeats and do-nothings depend on government. How meaningful is their freedom, when every aspect of their lives depends upon the caprice of a condescending government? As for the rest of us, it is time to roll up our sleeves, get off of our collective duff, and get to work. America is not our government. America is us.

Coming soon: RedBloodedAmericanGirl’s book “5 Things Every American Can Do to Make America Better”

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