On April 29,
TruNews commentator Rick Wiles interviewed conservative columnist Don Feder.
While Rick is a
Christian pastor and Don is Jewish, they share a concern about the
deteriorating condition of our nation.
Don Feder’s
latest column is reprinted below.
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I USED TO HAVE A
COUNTRY
“We
may still dominate the world – industrially and militarily – but, increasingly,
we are living off the accumulated capital of the past, drawing down on our
legacy until nothing is left but a wistful memory of our former glory…
We
are a republic riding a rising tide of secularism, rapidly turning away from
the God in whose name we were founded…
We
are fiscally and spiritually bankrupt.”
By Don Feder
April 10, 2013
Once upon a
time, I had a country. It was called America or the United States, “Columbia,
The Gem of the Ocean,” the land of the free and home of the brave. The Founding
Fathers envisioned it as a Shining City on a Hill.
For more than
two centuries, it blazed across the skies of history. Now, its light
flickers. Soon, it may be no more than a trail of dust and debris.
It was the
nation that taught humanity the lessons of republican government, personal
sovereignty and inalienable rights. It was the foe of tyranny which twice
in the last century saved humanity from unspeakable horror.
It was the
shores of refuge
where my Jewish grandparents and your Irish or Italian or Hispanic or Asian
ancestors came for a life which was impossible and, indeed, inconceivable,
anywhere else.
It was a
cornucopia of products and inventions that enriched the masses here and
abroad and made life infinitely easier for millions. It was the factory from
whose assembly line rolled forth the incandescent light bulb, the telephone,
the automobile, the airplane, the television, the refrigerator, the computer
and on and on.
It was a land of
strength, determination, optimism, ingenuity and heroism. It was a nation that
led by example, inspired, liberated and defended – that was unbelievably
generous to the destitute and disaster victims around the world.
It was a country
that produced giants
– leaders touched by the Divine -- like Washington, Adams, Lincoln,
Coolidge and Reagan – inventors like Edison, Ford, the Wright brothers,
Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Goodyear and Steve Jobs, and artists like Irving
Berlin, George Gershwin and Cecile B. DeMille.
It was a nation
whose optimism was reflected in movies like “The Wizard of Oz,” “Casablanca,”
“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “The Best Years of Our Lives,” “It’s a
Wonderful Life,” and “The Ten Commandments.”
It was a nation
that was born in blood, endured wars and depressions, slavery and
segregation, bread lines, picket lines and quarantine signs, reversals and
betrayals, gang warfare, urban riots and “peace” rallies.
That was then.
Today, what are we?
We
may still dominate the world – industrially and militarily – but, increasingly,
we are living off the accumulated capital of the past, drawing down on our
legacy until nothing is left but a wistful memory of our former glory.
We are a people
drowning in an ocean of debt -- $16.6 trillion, over a third in the
past four years alone, a nation of indigent sheep blindly following politicians
who lack the will to stop spending money we don’t have (at an average rate of
$3.86 billion a day). We are a car without brakes full of happy drunks,
oblivious to the fact that we are careening toward a cliff.
We are a culture
of brokenness.
For every 100 children born here, 60 will grow up in broken families. We are
killing the future -- 1.1 million of them a year –in the name of a spurious
right to choose. Now, our fertility rate is the lowest since we began keeping
records.
Reagan said, “A
nation that can’t control its borders is not a nation.” We lost our sovereignty
at the Rio Grande.
While
politicians dress up amnesties as a “pathway to citizenship,” the nation is
infiltrated by parasites, criminals, potential terrorists and the arrogantly
inassimilable
– and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. Washington, the courts and
media multiculturalists tell us that attempts to stem the flow are hateful,
bigoted and futile.
We’re a nation
whose entertainment industry is a cavalcade of degeneracy – a steady
stream of nudity, raw sexuality, bathroom humor, gut-wrenching violence and
sadism. Instead of manufactured products, this toxic trash is now one of our
principal exports.
We are a nation
with leaders whose answer to rampaging psychopaths is to disarm the innocent, leaving them
at the mercy of thugs and lunatics, while congratulating themselves on their
courage in standing up to the mythical gun lobby, as they travel about with
armed guards and live in gated communities.
We are a nation
of serfs whose laws are written by geriatric ideologues in black gowns who have
made a mockery of democracy and turned the Constitution into an excuse for
tyranny and bizarre social experiments.
We’re a nation
which betrays its historic friends while slobbering over its foes, whose response
to the cold-blooded murder of 3,000 Americans was a decade-long orgy of
tolerance and understanding for the death cult that animated the murderers,
dubbed the “religion of peace.”
We’re a country
where a plurality now favors “solemnizing” an absurdity and calling the
travesty “marriage”
– an unparalleled corruption of language that is deconstructing an institution
on which civilization depends.
We
are a republic riding a rising tide of secularism, rapidly turning away from
the God in whose name we were founded.
Our officials
hypocritically take an oath of office on the Bible, while they rarely miss an
opportunity to undermine its teachings.
We’re a land of
the lost where
it’s illegal to display the Ten Commandments on public property or erect a cross
as a memorial to war dead, with a president who deliberately misquotes the
Declaration of Independence, leaving out the crucial affirmation “endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”
We are a people
so consumed by envy that we habitually fall for the Democrats’ con that society
is a zero-sum game,
that profits come at our expense and that Obama and his Congressional gang are
all that stand between our precious programs and Republican budget-warriors
determined to preserve “tax cuts for the rich” at any cost.
We are a country
of benefit-addicts who are hooked on handouts. We tell
pollsters that we want Washington to reduce spending rather than raising taxes
– but not at the expense of my program or any program marketed as benefiting
children, the elderly, the disadvantaged, the disabled, or any but tap-dancing,
Anglo-Saxon millionaires.
America 2013 is
epitomized by Barack Hussein Obama, a man who so despises this nation and
everything it stands for that he can’t even bring himself to say that there’s
anything objectively special about the country he leads (American
“exceptionalism”), who showed his contempt for Middle America right
at the start, when he characterized small towns as the haunts of religious
zealots, gun nuts and bigots – a president who’s determined to govern without
Congress and outside the Constitution, who’s committed to expanding government
as rapidly as possible – for whom “revenue-enhancement” is a religion
and mega-deficits are a ritual.
Still, the man
who occupies the White House, the way Germany occupied France during World War
II, is a symptom, not the disease. As a
conservative congressman recently remarked: “I think we can survive another
four years of this guy. I’m not sure we can survive another four years of a country
that would reelect this guy.”
It wasn’t the
media or the elites that ushered in the Age of Obama. We the people put him in
office and we kept him there.
He’s given us
the longest sustained period of 7%-plus unemployment since the Great Depression, and we
reelected him. He’s given us our only trillion-dollar deficits – one for every
year he’s been in office – and we reelected him. Due to his war on energy, gas
prices more than doubled on his watch, and we reelected him. He nationalized
health insurance, resulting in huge increases in premiums, and we reelected
him.
Due to a failure
to mount a rescue operation (while he was off playing golf), a U.S. ambassador
and three others died in Benghazi, and we reelected him. His
administration spent weeks denying it was terrorism, and we reelected him. He
called the Ft. Hood massacre (perpetrated by a Muslim militant shouting “Allah
is great!”) “workplace violence,” and we reelected him.
His Justice
Department became an enabler of the New Black Panther Party, and we reelected
him.
ATF ran guns to Mexican drug lords, and we reelected him. He told businessmen
who somehow managed to make a profit in his economy, that their success was due
to the collective (“You didn’t build that”), and we reelected him. His family
takes lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous vacations at our expense, while the
ranks of the chronically unemployed swell, and we reelected him.
No wonder zombie
movies are so popular.
Those of us who
still believe in America are confronted with the choice of two political
parties. One is run by a conglomeration of radicals, panhandlers and
perpetually aggrieved minorities; the other has turned our values into campaign
slogans which it sneers at in non-election years.
The Reptilian
National Chairman recently castigated his party’s base for “acting like Old
Testament heretics” (sic) by taking his party’s platform seriously.
We
are fiscally and spiritually bankrupt. We are rubes at the county fair who
fall for the most absurd nostrums, and gape in awe at the panaceas peddled to
us, who care more for “Dancing With The Stars” (while Obama dances with the
Czars) and the latest mini-series than our nation’s survival.
We allow the
decent and the honorable – the Boy Scouts, law-abiding gun owners, churchgoing
Americans, entrepreneurs – to be vilified. We arm our enemies ($1.5 billion
in military aid to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood), undercut our allies (dictating
extinction borders to Israel), surrender our sovereignty and sell our
inheritance for a bowl of government pottage.
What can be
done?
First, accept the reality that we will probably lose -- that those of us over
40 may well be the last generation of real Americans.
But in that
acceptance, there is power and, perhaps, hope.
In “Band of
Brothers,” a captain advises a private who admits his fear:
“The only hope
you have is to accept the fact that you’re dead - and the sooner you accept
that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier’s supposed to
function.”
America may yet
beat the odds, though the prospects grow dim. If not, what better than to die
for than the country that once was? While there are still words to write and
speak, ballots to cast, flags to wave, cases to argue and noble gestures to
make, duty requires us to stand fast.
Like the Marines
who died in a green hell in the Pacific and the 101st Airborne who fell
at Bastogne –
Like those who
stayed at machine gun emplacements until the last bullet was fired and were
later found dead with the bodies of the enemy piled up around them –
We
must fight to the last.
Our sacrifice
will be an appeal to Heaven that may yet avert what now seems inevitable.
Or, perhaps,
centuries hence, another people will arise to claim the title of “Americans,”
more worthy of it than our contemporaries.
May they be
inspired by the example of the last of the old Americans.
Originally
published on GrassTopsUSA
4 comments:
The main pathetic appeal in this post is the fact that whoever wrote it seesf no hope and wants to put out the flicker that is still alive within themselves and others. My appeal is that Faith is what makes us strong and as long as you are still breathing, you can come back alive, and can re-ignite that small flame that is within you into a burning and a roaring fire. After all what is left but to face death, so go ahead and live! Live for yourself, and live for your country, and live to make America great again!!! Bring God back into YOUR life, and God will then grow within you and show you what to do to WIN FOR HIM!!! First, repent of all your sins and shortcomings and make yourself worthy in the eyes of God to really serve Him. Ask Jesus, (God) to come into your heart and live through you. Then learn about the attributes of God and Jesus and live to please Him. Do not be brainwashed anymore by the power elite, who in the end just want to kill off everyone. Throw away your television, and grab a goal to help America. Do everything within your power to change things that are NOT working. Let's us train the children ourselves, at home, and in our own schools, and let's re-instill the TRUTH about our great country which will once more become the beacon of light which the other countries and the rest of the world are looking for. Let's work together to achieve this and live from our hearts each day. (In order to do that, you have to get rid of the outside influences such as television, radio, etc. and turn to the inside of yourself and listen to that small still voice who loves and guides your every step and IS love.) God Bless You All
I wonder why Don Feder, who is Jewish, did not mention the fact that it's the ZIONIST JEWS who are destroying the US, writing unconsitutional laws, and manning DHS, leading to the results he so woefully laments. Even non-zionist contribute monetarily and otherwise to the war-mongering zionists.
JEWISH SABBATEANS RULE THE WORLD FOR SATAN: PART 2
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=275941
The USA should be renamed "Phoenix" because it will rise from its ashes, stronger than before.
Sin is a human creation, not a divine creation. So is the devil. Devil is a human creation.
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