October 2nd, 2009 by TNM

After a 2 month hiatus, I’ve come back to TNMilitant to write again.

I took this time off from blogging for various reasons but one was to distance myself from the political scene, to step outside the ring and view the fight as a spectator.

During that time I worked, but I also traveled some, I spent some time in my beloved adopted state of TN and I reflected heavily on today’s political climate.

That I spend a majority of my time overseas, it is sometimes difficult to put a finger on the true pulse of the political scene, living abroad as I do, 99% of the information sources I have are online, I don’t have the advantage of living among my country men, which in turn poses a risk of a biased opinion towards my government. That’s not to say I am an expert in all things political, I am not.

So Rather than continue blogging unabated this past two months, a thought occurred to me that maybe it was time to step back and look at things a little more, that perhaps my views on our current system of government were becoming lopsided, that perhaps it was time to step back and re-look at a wide horizon of events and then return to the TNMilitant.

“After all” I asked myself, “how bad can things actually be back home?”

The answer to that as I see it, unfortunately, is simply…. it’s bad and getting worse.

After being home and taking time to mull things over; As I see it, the political divide in the country has worsened, to epic levels. It is a cancer eating at the republic and like any cancer unchecked it will destroy it’s host.

The election of a hard left government in the past two years, by people that seemingly either just don’t care enough about liberty to protect it, those blathering about how we need to “change” those who relish their free handouts, welfare, and the ever increasing role of the Federal government in their every day lives, or whom just don’t seem to be informed very well, has put the country on a collision course with itself.

Those same hard left politicians and their supporters that swept to power are now actively engaging in an all out assault on the Constitution and the principles on which this country was founded.

Obama was touted as the great Uniter…millions swallowed that rhetoric, and now are regretting it because, sadly that is anything but the case. Obama has divided the country into two clearly defined camps, Socialist leaning and those that refuse to accept the ever increasing role of the federal government in their every days lives. It has created such a divide between fully half of the citizens and the elite political class that the most overwhelming reaction out there is outright disgust. This is dangerous water. I reflect back to one of the original tea party events where one protester carried a sign that read “We came unarmed….this time.” And I have to ask myself, “how long will that last”?

I was simply stunned at the levels of anger I encountered this past few weeks, this isn’t a joke, it’s a living breathing groundswell of outright hatred of our government and it is growing. Say what you will about Obama and this legislative branch, but in my memory I’ve never seen such hatred. The hard left hated Bush make no mistake, they were vocal about it, but this is different. This isn’t fringe groups like Move-On or other socialist activists, this is everyday ordinary Americans rising up in utter disgust and disdain.

Recently, The Speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi became emotional, siting she was concerned that the levels of rhetoric have reached such ugliness that she fears violence will ensue, for once; Nancy hit the nail on the head.

But I have to question her, “Why do you think this is Nancy?” Is it because as Jimmy Carter babbled Americans don’t like a black man in the white house? Or as the ever ridiculous Maurene Dowd from the NYT’s claims we’re all just a bunch of racists?

I think not. In reality and what those in power right now seem to just not understand is simply that Americans will never accept the sneering contempt of the like of Harry Ried and Nancy Pelosi, they’ve called people “teabaggers”, outright tried to discard their concerns, treated them like subjects rather than citizens and worse, so no one is moved by Nancy’s faux tears.

In fact, they see them as a sham, a farce. The democrats lied and have been caught in those same lies so many times that the electorate by some counts, fully 60+% of it, have lost all faith in our elected representatives and hold an increasingly negative view of the government we elected.

As I see it…The average American wants to be left alone, to succeed or fail as he may, his health-care untouched, his taxes unrevised, his cost of living reasonable. That’s not happening, in fact the current government seems hell bent on controlling an every larger role in peoples lives, of taking as much freedom and money as they possibly can from Americans.

Americans don’t want that sort of change, although it is said you get the government you vote for, I don’t think a majority of the people that voted for this President or these members of the House and Senate truly believed they would have the gall to force a socialist agenda like they have thus far, many of them are left angry and reeling with frustration and the broken promises that seem to pile up by the day.

Sadly, I have to give credit were credit is due, Obama partially told us his agenda, and thinking conservatives connected the dots, his words, his background, his own writings weren’t adding up, and we ultimately rejected it. However millions of middle of the road so called “moderate” types waffled. That waffling is going to hurt them badly now.

The country was unhappy under Bush, but now finds itself even more unhappy Under Obama. Why is this?

Those that voted for Obama wanted change did they not? Maybe the change they were thinking was going to happen isn’t. Maybe the unhappiness stems from the fact that the changes that are happening are not what they signed up for. There were people from every political and ethnic background out there you could find, whom voted FOR Obama and their not happy….are they now magically “racists” too?

In simple words..this has nothing to do with Race Creed or Color, it has EVERYTHING to do however, with the Federal Government’s trampling of our constitutional rights. It has everything to do with our taxpayer dollars being burned in a furnace of corruption and worthless spending. It has to do with people watching in horror videos of a government supported entity like ACORN supporting child sex exploitation. It has to do with the liberal’s like Nancy Pelosi unmitigated gall to mock millions of hardworking Americans concerns and calling them “astroturf” and “Un-American”.

The implications are clear from this Speaker and her lapdogs in both chambers as well as the media, you’re not a true American unless you march lock step with her agenda. To a lot of Americans, having any type of agenda forced on them is going to garner backlash. That’s who we as Americans are.

Racism keeps festering, and those flames are fanned yet again by the leftists like Pelosi, Reid, Durban, Jimmy Carter and others. Tens of thousands of Americans marched on Washington D.C. recently, to protest the current course of this country, and thousands showed up at town halls across this nation to display their disgust with the elected officials, how can the far left leaning political class in power even think of claiming that has anything at all to do with racism? All of those protesters were white? I doubt that very much.

Adding to the outrage and frustration; The MSM is largely viewed as in the tank with this crop of corrupt jackals in D.C. largely ignored their efforts. So what & who speaks for millions of average Americans now? No-One, and that is a breeding ground for mistrust and out right hatred of the government.

We’ve made a grave mistake this past 2 and a half years, although in the average voters defense, the GOP did and continues to do little to garner continued support with debacles like Mark Foley, A spend! spend! spend! mindset, two wars with no clear end game, and “Democratic Lite” governance, all added up to send the GOP packing.

Let’s hope those mistakes by the GOP don’t end up costing us more than a little “change”.

I find it ironic that In the 1950’s the country went under the same assault, Communists infested the halls of our government, it was coined the “red scare”. The liberal press poo-pooed the very idea, and charged people like Joe McCarthy with being a traitor, funny, after those archives were recently brought to public light we find out…he was right. What will they find in archives 50 years from now?

In truth, I see no difference now, since Obama has appointed not one but an entire administration infested with self avowed socialists. Van Jones, although now resigned, and others are on record clearly stating they are avowed socialist. I think that in 50 years we very well may reflect back as a nation and shake our head in dismay at what happened in America and how dangerously close we came to destroying the vision our founding fathers laid out for us.

Change is coming to America alright, and it’s called socialism, it is directly in opposition to what millions of Americans everywhere believe in and a freedom loving people will not lie down meekly for this. Let’s hope Nancy Pelosi is wrong and it doesn’t result in bloodshed.