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The Great Stealth Depression Continues: Is It Time For A Return To Normalcy…Again?

After the economically devastating policies of Democrat Progressive President Woodrow Wilson the American people welcomely ushered in Republican Conservative Warren Harding, and then Calvin Coolidge, that brought about “the Roaring Twenties”.  Harding and Coolidge both saw that it was not the government that was the engine of America’s prosperity, but a motivated and inspired American people and private industry.  They greatly reduced taxes across the board and government regulations on businesses.

The one thing that can be said of history is that though we may not like what it tells us, but it’s always going to tell the truth.obama smug

Fast forward to today when we bear witness to a president of the United States stating that his focus for his second term will be on income inequality, i.e., more taking from those based on their ability to give to those based on their need.  He also has boastfully stated that if the elected representatives of the people of the United States don’t go along with his vision of transforming legislatively the nation, he’ll just create laws by pen-Executive Orders.  Really?!

What has been totally absent from any of Mr. Obama’s economic policies since his ascension into the seat of the presidency is a focus on true policies that would actually create a roaring economy that awakens the dormant energies of the American private sector and ignite the people’s innate drive to succeed independent of government handouts.

As he makes announcements to further depress the nation economically and increase government dependency, reports come out that the nation only created approximately 74,000 jobs…for the whole year of 2013!.  This is the lowest in 3 yrs. In November The Blaze.com reported the labor participation rate was at the lowest since 1978, at less than 63%.  It reported that, “The U-6 unemployment rate, considered a broader measure of actual unemployment in the U.S., increased to 13.8 percent, up from 13.6 percent.”  Yet, Mr. O continues on with his crusade of fundamentally transforming this nation into his utopian vision unabashed, and publicly unchallenged either by the Elite Media or the National Republican Party Elites.

Not only is Mr. O seemingly unphased regarding the serious crisis that the nation is in economically, but the Media is eerily quiet on the motivations of Obama and the tragic consequences that lie ahead for the nation due to his policies. So Obama continues his purposeful obfuscation of the true economic crisis that currently befalls the nation, for today and the foreseeable future.  More importantly, the Establishment Media refuses to report on the connection between the crippled state of the economy and Mr. Obama’s regurgitated economic policies that have not ever produced a robust or dominant economy in the history of not just our country, but the world.  After some 50 years and over 20 Trillion of U.S Taxpayer Dollars in the so-called War on Poverty it has shown to have been an utter, though very predictable, failure, as reported by the Heritage Foundation

Even though poll after poll since before his anointment shows that the economy and jobs are the most important issues for Americans, Mr. O persists in diverting energy and attention to issues that can only add to the nation’s suffering, such as giving preferential treatment and status to illegal immigrants, increasing regulations on businesses, increasing taxes on citizens, and generally expanding the government into areas for which it was not created to enter.  But for him to do otherwise would be too much like right for the nation.

The evidence of the tragic effects of his stealth depression is apparent, yet goes mostly unspoken:

·         Youth unemployment is at 16.3 percent — one of the highest levels since World War II

·          U.S. enduring the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression

·         The number of able-bodied adults on food stamps nearly doubled under Obama’s policies.

·         13 million more Americans receive Food Stamps than prior to Obama.

·         Under the reign on the U.S’s first true African-American President the labor participation for Black Americans has sunk 0.3 percentage points to 60.2 percent -the lowest rate since December of 1977. How’s that for gratitude, eh?.

·         The United States has dropped to #12 in the 2014 Worlds Ranking of Economic Freedom, Hong Kong and Singapore tops the list.  Let that marinate on your minds for a second.  So much for the land of the FREE.

And the biggest tax increase in the history of the nation,Obamacare, hasn’t been fully implemented. This isn’t gonna be good folks!.

So, the next time you hear a politician or anyone talk about our “economic recovery” , ask where is the foundation for this recovery?  How can you have an economic recovery when we have a record number of citizens unemployed, under-employed,  and unemployable?  How can there be an economic recovery when the family unit and morality is in disarray?  And how can you have an economic recovery when the government is taking so much of the economy’s wealth and resources, and restricts so much its citizens freedoms?  As my mom used to say, “there’s something in the milk that just ain’t clean.”

History has shown us that America’s exceptionalism is best exhibited when the people are less burdened by the weight of government. Evidence the economic booms under Lincoln, Harding/Coolidge, Kennedy, & Reagan.  So too the history of the world tells us that a government-dominated economy never spawns  prosperity for its people.  Evidence the fact the though America is younger and smaller than Europe and Asia, we have out produced them economically, have created and inspired more millionaires, and have grown to be the destination of more citizens of the world then all of them combined.  Not to mention we have defeated them on the battle field .  And as for the issue of the government making people “equal”, U.S Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may have said it best when he said, “Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.” The proper role of government has always been known as stated by President Lincoln, “[the government] is to do for the community of people [you and I], whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves-in their separate, and individual capacities.  In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.  

Free-minded individuals who are able to exercise their Creator-endowed rights, without infringing on that of another, is the greatest blue print for economic prosperity.  We have 200 plus years of evidence.  It’s sad to think that if this economic devastation was done under a Conservative Republican the Media would be broadcasting daily reports of Americans suffering and the erection of a shabby towns in his name.  But, instead under this Administration we get deafening silence and complicitness regarding his actions.  The question isn’t so much if it is time to return to normalcy, but with so  many of us not knowing the truth of the nation’s critical situation and confused, disillusioned, and have become comfortable with the chains of government promised security, if the people have wearily grown to accept this as our new norm?

2013’s Stories that the Establishment Media didn’t really want us to know and too many of us didn’t care to know.

10.  Administration subjects soldiers with court martial for expressing religious views-particular Christian. This Administration seems to have an eternal hard-on for anything Christian in nature to the extent that even our nations cherished military is not shielded from It.  From everything from traditional religious symbols on gun sights or patches to Chaplins giving comfort to soldiers during the government shutdown, this Administration seems to have extreme discomfort with any religious expression unlike any U.S President; for any except the religion of Islam. Humm!

9.  The President of the United States publicly endorsing homosexual lifestyle.  For the first time we have a president who chose to endorse alternative life styles during his inaugural address for his second term. This sit the Executive Branch’s agenda publicly on a path to further transform the nation’s social paradigm.

8.  The United States has more energy resources than Saudi Arabia. 2013 was the year the America came prime time in the energy complex, that is for all but for the  U.S Administration who virtually seem to treat the news like one would have getting terminal cancer.  There has been near total blackout on the economic boom going on oil-rich States such as North Dakota.

7.  The war against manliness.  Camille Paglia, a lesbian author, in a December 29, 2013 article of the Global & Mail voiced eloquently and directly what many in America have been sounding the alarm for years.  Whether it is the extraordinary elevation of the homosexual lifestyle, the extreme political correctness movement-where no one is meant to be offended-, or the focus on esteem in k-12 in the government educational system rather than achievement, there a silent war against traditional American, John Wayne-like, rugged masculinity.

6.  The gross preferential treatment giving illegal immigrants by the Administration, but not Veterans. During the federal government shut down, while it banned American citizens and military Veterans from public parks and exhibits, it allowed people who are in the country illegally and their advocates permission to hold a rally in D.C.  But, promoting and advancing illegal Mexican immigrants at the expense of the American people has been his mode of operation throughout his reign.

5.  There are more Americans on Food Stamps than who work.  In the second term of Mr. Obama there are more citizens on Foods Stamps, who receive government benefits, and who are not working than in generations.  And yet Obama is focusing on giving citizenship to Illegal immigrants and implementing high regulations on U.S citizens and businesses?

4.  The IRS targeting politically Conservative groups and individuals linked to White House.  In a June Congressional Hearing IRS official Carter Hull testified, “the IRS chief counsel’s office in Washington demanded information on the 2010 election activity of tea party groups applying for tax-exempt status.”

3.  The attack on the US Benghazi Consulate cover-up.  What may go down as the biggest governmental controversy since Watergate the issue surrounding Benghazi not only questions the reasoning of the Administration’s grossly misrepresenting the truth over the cause of the attack, but also why was the 4 Americans sacrificed while U.S forces stood down.  Who gave the order?

2.  The suspicious deaths of Seal Team Six.  On May 28th The Blaze.com reported three families of Navy SEAL Team VI Special Forces servicemen [the famed killers of Bin Laden] and another family of an Army National Guardsman seriously questions the government’s story and explains, “how and why the government is as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as the Taliban.” But the Establishment Media apparently couldn’t be any less interested how nor why this glorified group of heroes perished so mysteriously, and what part did the Administration play?

1.  Obama knew that MILLIONS of U.S citizens would be kicked of health insurance policies … over 3 YEARS AGO!  NBC News, yes NBC News, reported that the Administration knew as early as 2010 that millions of citizens would lose their existing insurance coverage as early as 2010. It put the wording in the bill itself.  In other words … HE LIED!!! Just let that marinate on your brains for a few seconds. The president of the United States blatantly and repeatedly lied to and deceived the American people to pass legislation that will saddle the nation with unsustainable debt for generations. And no one seems to want to ask the question, why nor hold him, or those who supports him, accountable.

Even the most passive observer looking back over the past year can see that there was a lot of information suppressed and or manipulated by people who is entrusted with the faith and posterity of this nation. The natural question should be why? What was gained by it? Who gained for doing it? And what other information have been or will be suppressed and or manipulated for our consumption? These questions are most important for a nation whose freedoms and liberties rest on the majority of the populous being truly knowledgeable and informed on events to make the best choices for their lives and for the community at large.

If There Was Ever A Coupe Of The U.S Government Would The American People Know?

A couple of years ago I wrote an article asking the question if the U.S government had been taken over due to its apparent extreme aversion to acting upon the will of the people? In it I refereed to an August ’07 issue of the Financial Times report on David Walker’s, the comptroller general of the US General Accounting Office, warning us that the US government is on a “burning platform” of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, and immigration… threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon. Well after nearly 7 years past and being witness to yet another orchestrated performance by the U.S government to confuse, distract, and disorient the American people to further expand its power while still doing absolutely nothing about the burning platform that more threatens to engulf our nation.

obama smugBut just as with the magician on stage, it matters less what is being focused on under the lights, but what is going on just out of focus and in the shadows. After about two weeks of a government supposed shutdown over the Administration’s unwillingness to delay the mandate for every U.S citizen to get sign up for Obamacare, just as it has done for businesses, and creating some way to reduce the government’s debt before agreeing to increase its debt ceiling. But after all was said done the issue on Obamacare became a non-issue and the debt limits got increased without any restraints. In fact, the government spent more money on more pork projects and back paying federal employees the money that they didn’t receive during the shut down that actually only effected less than a quarter of the federal government. So even the most passive observer must ask the question what was it truly all for?

As the main political players-the Progressives in the Republican and Democratic parties, particularly Mr. Obama, and the Establishment Media-attempted to focus us on just the volleys of how to not to do what is truly right for the American people, Mr. O quietly moved forward to fundamentally transforming this nation, while in the light he tells us that he’s working his hardest to do the exact opposite.

Recent Pew Research and Rasmussen Poll tells us aloud what many of us feel instinctively, that we do not trust the government and the future of our once great republic is going down a dark rabbit hole. Yet at the same time we like the individuals in government, i.e. Mr. O is still liked on a personality basis, we just don’t like where he’s taking the nation. It’s like we are all on a boat heading over Niagara Falls that’s being driven and managed by people who we don’t trust nor believe to be competent. While the majority of us appear to be grossly distracted by the hypnotic tunes of the band and the visual imagery, leaving the minority who are alert and conscious wondering why is this all happening when we all see the cliff quickly coming before us?

We all know that this is not the America that we imagined it would become. Intuitively we know that there is something very wrong with this picture. Yet, here we are. And curiously, none of the political creatures of the federal government seem to truly want to do anything to correct the dire situation that faces the America. But while the circus seemed to have everyone’s attention who were fixated to the printed and TV Media programing during the “debt crisis”, somethings where interestingly not focused on, but maybe more interesting particularly to those of us who are more intellectually politically initiated such as:

And what may be more telling of Mr. O’s focus, his first stated goal following the “crisis” is not rebuilding the nation’s economic standing, not to increase the nation’s standard of living, nor reestablishing the lost of faith in the federal government by the American people by establishing a more stern code of ethics, but to get more illegal-immigrants into the country.

But hey, we are in football season and soon it will be the holidays. As the U.S government further enacts it’s modern day version of Ancient Rome’s “Bread and Circus” the America that we all hoped for ourselves and our children of freedom and prosperity becomes more at peril. Don’t mind the smoke! Pass the popcorn.

What If Obama Was White?

On the eve of the election of United States’ first truly African-American president many Americans and U.S citizens anxiously anticipated a new day for the nation. A more prosperous nation. A nation that was more respected around the world. A more unified nation. But at the least, a happier nation.  A change for the best of our nation.20121107_HP_OBAMA-slide-ZGN6-articleLarge

But as I look around my nation I see the fading shadows of great promise and expectations vanishing to the harsh glaring light. We no longer have the expectations of being exceptional nor of a prosperous future. The nation is more ethnically, socially, sexually, and economically divided. We are morally destitute. We are less wealthy as a nation and the government of the United States is spending money like it has a printing press. Oops! It does have a printing press. America’s traditional friends no longer trust the motives or intentions of the U.S government while our nation’s enemies grow more brazen and threatening in our current prostituted state. What’s most troubling is that while Rome burns all around Caesar Obama seems to be unscathed – clean of any blame by many Americans or citizens of the United States. The Establishment Media dares not speak any ill of him. And many citizens see the nation’s demise as systemic to our construction – free-market oriented and constitutionally based- rather than the fault of the policies of the head of the government, i.e., Mr. O, as they have in the past. He’s the first Teflon President.

A very good argument can be, and has been, made that Mr. O, enabled by the Establishment Media, has used the color of his skin like Thor’s hammer to beat and intimidate his opponents into submission. But let’s imagine if Mr. O was White. We have experienced the Carter and Clinton presidencies. Carter’s name is still mud to many Americans due to the economic carnage that he unleashed upon the nation. And Clinton will go down in history as the president who was impeached and disbarred, supposedly, for not being able to keep his pants up and lying under oath to the American people.

But if Barry – Obama’s birth name – was White, first he would not have received the Nobel Peace Prize barely 5 days into his presidency. [ Just an aside question, if Barry’s birth name was Barry, why did the Birth Certificate presented to us have Barack? I’m just asking.]  I mean Jimmy at least is credited for bringing Egypt and Israel together in peace. We all remember President G.H Bush’s promise to not raise any new taxes – “read my lips”. That was just one fateful utterance that caused him his reelection. But, I don’t have enough fingers or toes to count the many unfulfilled promises of Mr. O. Here are just a few: He promised taxes on the middle-class would not go up under his presidency. Following an unprecedented spike in unemployment after the passage of his “stimulus” package, in which he’d promised employment wouldn’t rise above 7% if it was passed, he promised he would “focus like a laser beam” on the economy to grow jobs. Oops! There goes his reelection hopes. Right?  And he promised that Obama-care if passed would reduce the cost of healthcare, reduce the government’s debt, and not cause anyone to lose their choice of doctors or current coverage. How is that promise working for ya America eh? But let’s not call him out on these such issues because it may be deemed “racist”.

Under Mr. O’s regime there has been a considerable increase on Black on White violence that has received noticeably less vigorous attention from this Administration and it’s Justice Department.  The government’s top cop, Attorney General Eric Holder, made it clear that he would not treat Black on White crimes equally under the law.  And though Mr. O can stop the world from moving in order to involve himself in crime issues when Blacks may be the victim such as the Trayvon Martin case, but in cases when so-called “flash mobs” of primarily young Blacks reek havoc even in his adopted home town of Chicago or even when horrific Black on White violence hits national and international papers, like in the cases of a WWII vet being beaten with flash lights by a couple of Black youths or that of a Australian baseball player killed by  a Black youth just because he was said to been bored, he’s silent and most uninvolved.  But neither of these will be tried as “hate crimes”?  I find it most ironic that the man that’s the head of the party that created the Klan and lynched and terrorized Blacks for generations, who is himself Black, today turns deaf and mute on matters regarding Blacks violently attacking Whites.  And the Media dares to say anything in fear of being called racist and insensitive to Blacks.

As he unmercifully uses all resources of the federal government to bludgeon any city or State that attempts to protect its citizens from the flood of illegal immigrants, particularly those from Mexico, and enforce actual federal immigration and voter laws he’s curiously uninterested in matters of cities and States blatantly breaking federal laws that favor illegal immigrants such as creating sanctuary jurisdictions, such as California and Chicago and San Francisco. As he moves heaven and earth to bestow an abundance of warm kisses with tongue and hugs to the illegal Mexican community, the community for which he got into the dance with, the American-Black community, has been relegated to waiting at the table next to bathroom. The American-Black community has seen its household income drop, standard of living drop, and unemployment rates rise under the regime of supposedly one of their own. I guess 95% plus voting output isn’t valued as much as it once was. At least when Blacks voted nearly 100% Republican up until 1965 we at least got positive results such as the abolishment of slavery, passage of the Civil Rights Acts, and the outlawing of Jim Crow laws in the South. But never mind those were done by mean White men.

Barry has piled on more regulations and debt on the backs of the American people in a time of economic depression that would make Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt blush in embarrassment and envious of his success in imposing their anti-prosperous Keynesian Economic principles. This stunningly remarkable feat is being done as Mr. O imitates Sybil and blames the government for the nation’s historic economic ills. Shh…maybe someone should quietly remind Barry that as president…he is the government. When Eisenhower was president he famously stated, “the buck stops here”. He took full responsibility for everything under his presidency. With Mr. O, the buck is exhausted from the lack of rest. But, it’s okay because it’s the fault the White power structure that is not allowing him to make America prosperous. Right? America is failing after some 200 plus years of world economic dominance because our system of free enterprise doesn’t work but only for the wealthy and White people. Right?

But maybe the most important question to ponder is if Barry was not Black but White, would a more critical eye be placed on him by the populace and the Media due to his intimate relations with some of the most extreme leftist and Communist individuals, such as Saul Alinsky, 1960’s extreme leftist organizer, Frank Marshall, a devoted Marxist/Communist who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, and his own brother who has prominent ties to the terrorist group the Muslim Brotherhood? Some may began question the true motivations of many, if not all, of Mr. O’s motives and actions in the Middle East, particular regarding Egypt, Libya, and now Syria, that has benefited the radical Islamist sec. I know that Jimmy got a couple of military men killed during the raid to rescue the Americans at the embassy in Iran and Reagan got a couple hundred Marines killed in Lebanon. But, Barry has set with what used to be a rather tranquil area of the world a blazed with no noticeable intent to make it more favorable to America’s national or international interest on the side of people so extreme that they where feared by most Arab nations, such as Egypt, Libya, Iran, and Syria. And barely a peep is heard in questioning this man who sits in the most powerful position in the world because no one wants to dare be called or viewed “racist”.  Simply insane!

It is said that, that which is true in the light, so shall it be in the darkness.  But, we must first seek truth in ourselves and then seek it from others.  We can not be afraid to question with boldness the intentions and motives of those who lead.  At the end of the day, it comes down to the responsibility of the citizenry to be eternally vigilant over those in the position of political power and measure them on their actions and content of their character, not what they say, how good they may say it, nor the color of their skin in which they say it.  Mr. O rose to his position promising change. But from what, to what, and more importantly why? His mentor Saul Alinsky said of change,Change is brought about through relentless agitation and “trouble making” of a kind that radically disrupts society as it is.” View his actions. Can we truly say that his kind of change was what this nation needed? Can the nation rebuild after his carnage?

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Why Is There A Silent War Against Christendom…In America?

I don’t know about the rest of you, but never thought that the day would come that Christendom would come under serious assault in this country not by an extreme American leftist group, atheist group, or anti-religious group, but by the government of the United States.

Lets first start off with the astonishing May report in Brietbart.com stating that the U.S military will actually Court Martial any solider who shares his or her Christian faith. Whats even more astonishing is that the report states, “Obama administration Pentagon appointees meeting with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein to develop court-martial procedures to punish Christians in the military who express or share their faith.” That’s like someone from an atheist group helping develop the laws and procedures for the Boy Scouts of America. But, as sad as it may be to think of such an event, in today’s degrading culture such an event maybe easily accepted. The Establishment Media would only have to colour it under words such diversity or equality. But, that’s not the end of the military’s extremely bizarre religious cultural conversion. In April the U.K Daily Mail reported that U.S Army Reserves training material, “classifies Christians, including both evangelicals and Roman Catholics, as religious extremists, placing them in the same category as skinheads, the Ku Klux Klan, Hamas and Al Qaeda.”

The one thing that I was always raised to be certain of was that America would always be defined by its Christian foundation and principles and that the military would be the most glaring evidence of that just as it has been ever since the America Revolutionary. But so to, I never imagined that the American people would become so detached from the purpose, actions, and behavior of their government.

The orchestrated silent purging of our nations most cherished religious principles and culture doesn’t just stop with the military. Earlier this month a South Carolina High School Valedictorian had to rip up a per-approved speech to talk about his Christian up bringing and recited the Lords Pray to a roaring applause from the graduation audience. In 2009 a sitting federal judge actually banned prayer from government school events in Santa Rosa County, Fla. A Indiana college prohibited playing of the National Anthem at sporting events. And as early as 2005 a FOX News Poll stated that many American, 8 out of 10, see the courts as actually the hand that is pushing Christianity into the shadows and out of the view of the public. Must like when Moses was pushed out the view and consciousness of the public by the Egyptian Pharaoh.

We as a nation have strayed so far into the twilight zone that many of us are even questioning whether are not we are a Christian nation. In a CBS report, “Is U.S A Christian Nation?”, stated that just 77% of respondents called themselves Christian, as compared to 91% in 1948, and that a Newsweek poll stated that just 62 percent of Americans believe America to be a Christian nation. This is about the same time that Mr. O stood in Turkey as the President of the U.S basically denouncing any claim that we are a Christian nation when he said, “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation,”… “We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.” We have becoming a nation with no religious identity according to a Pew Forum on religion and public life. America is no longer the land for free religious expression, especially if you are Christian, as the Heritage Foundation in the Fall of 2010 report called, Religious Liberty and Expression Under Attack: Restoring America’s First Freedoms. In the report it pointedly stated, “All across America, religious institutions and individuals are being subjected to increasing restrictions on their free exercise of religion and freedom of speech—a crackdown that can be seen in a variety of different contexts ranging from employers or health care professionals being required to provide or facilitate abortions against the dictates of their faith to street evangelists and public school students seeking to share their religious viewpoints with others. This rising disregard for religious liberty represents a marked break from the long-standing American tradition of accommodating religious practice and expression that predates the ratification of the Constitution.”

Three questions should be asked by even the most passive observer. Why is this issue getting scant coverage by the American Media? Why is our nation’s religious identity being so brazenly attacked and denigrated with seemingly impunity? Why? And who does it benefit? Though I do not have all of the answers, but many may want to use the excuse of the separation of Church and State Clause in the Constitution. But, the funny thing is that there is no such clause. In fact, the whole convoluted and most miss-construed issue of Separation of Church and State comes not from the U.S Constitution, but the U.S.S.R Constitution of 1922-the former Communist Republic. The great irony is that Jefferson’s noted Separation of Church and State had to do with U.S. government NOT interfering with the religious freedoms of Americans – just as it states in the Constitution, “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

But so to must we look at the person who heads the Executive Branch of the United States. The person who executes the laws of the federal government and sets statutory policies for the departments under his domain – Mr. Barack Obama. It is not to say that the suppression of Christianity is new in this country, but the veracity and vigorousness of the comprehensive attack that has been unleashed is nothing more than astounding. And one can argue that such an assault is being done with a little too much passion to be done begrudgingly or with any mental reservation. The question needs to be asked how does the fact that Mr. O was raised and heavily influenced by two fathers of Muslim backgrounds and origins and that he spent most of his formative years outside of the Continental United States Of America?

In any regard, the only truth is that the people who do not believe that individuals can govern themselves or that a nation can not be the beacon of prosperity, freedom, and liberty to shine the light on their mass flaws of human injustices and economic ineffectiveness are the ones who will benefit from the demise of America. And that these people can only succeed if we the American people forget, disavow, and or surrender our history, our culture, our customs, our fundamental religious principles, and our identity.