WHAT HAPPENED?

Our nation was founded on the beliefs that governments are necessary to protect the inalienable or God-given rights of individuals and that the free enterprise system enables individuals to utilize their God-given ability to their greatest potential.   The Founding Fathers created a Constitution to limit the power of government and included a Bill of Rights to preserve the God-given rights of the individual because they understood that the quest for power over others could produce the same kind of tyranny that they had just fought against.   

However, not everyone subscribes to the beliefs of the Founding Fathers.   The progressive movement that started roughly 100 years ago believes something far different.   They believe that individual rights come from government, not from God and that individuals are incapable of achieving their God-given potential on their own.   They promote programs of dependency and the intervention of an enlightened few, progressives of course, into the economy to determine who is successful and who is not.   These programs of dependency destroy an individual’s ability to use their God-given abilities and progressive interventions into the economy created the Great Depression and more recently the 2008 housing finance collapse.

Just as 100 years ago, groups within the progressive movement are interested in using the power of government for their own financial gain.   Labor unions discovered long ago that political power enables them to use coercion to obtain wages and benefits beyond what the marketplace would provide.   Politically connected investors like Al Gore have used the environmental movement and the subsidies it provides to fund ventures that are not financially viable in the marketplace.  Programs of dependency may hurt recipients rather than help them, but they do ensure voter loyalty.

Even with the safeguards against tyranny built into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the ultimate defense against tyranny in a constitutional republic is an educated electorate at the ballot box.  While it may be understandable that people with a particular political philosophy would want to promote and spread that philosophy, journalists have a moral and ethical obligation to provide news untainted by their personal political philosophy.  Unfortunately, when polls of journalists shows that 80% of radio, television and print journalists support one political party, it is understandably why 3 out of 4 major networks and most news services, including AP, selectively edit the news to omit the stories that do not support their political philosophy, or as journalist more eloquently state it, their world view.

However, the longer that journalists blatantly ignore their own Code of Ethics in their desire to promote their world view, the more tyranny will grow.   The peril of continuing to practice advocacy rather than journalism is that ultimately the power of tyranny will grow to the point that it will require the rights afforded Americans under the Second Amendment to eliminate it.   Isn’t a better alternative a return to journalism to provide an educated electorate which is able to eliminate tyranny at the ballot box?

How could we so quickly become a nation where courts support unlawful foreclosures in favor of banksters who wear as badges and with pride in their unlawful activities, knowing they will receive no punishment?  How could America’s government become so perverted that it didn’t inspect for many years an abortion clinic that was slicing the necks of newborns that hadn’t died in abortion attempts so the spine could be clipped in two and the living infant would die a very painful death?

How did we become a nation whose government apparently doesn’t know how to tell the truth and which still hasn’t learned that making a mistake is bad (especially when perpetrating an unlawful act), but that covering up a Benghazi-sized mistake is disastrous?

When did the Department of Justice become corrupted to the point it was okay to deliver guns to drug cartels across the American/Mexican border that would result in the deaths of thousands of people from both nations?  When did the Constitution of the United States become so insignificant to the Department of Justice that the Attorney General felt safe gathering telephone records of 100 Associated Press reporters?  

When did the USA become the USSA?  When did it become OK to classify a citizen as a terrorist for merely exercising what used to be the right to disagree with government policy?  

So, what happened?  I’ll tell you what happened: because we as a people no longer have a moral compass, we as a nation no longer have a moral compass.   Having a moral compass, you see, doesn’t just involve becoming informed.  It means doing something to right the wrongs.