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When did the grungy

Attitude take over

In the country

I wonder

Of 'What's in it

              for me?'

           Virtually

From the beginning

Some say

With the spirit

             of free

Enterprise, and all

                     that

'taming a continent'

                    shit.

                I  think

           not.

                I think

           that

The Founding

Fathers, and their

Generation

Held the torch,

             not just

Of Liberty, but

Of wisdom

Rather well

For some time

      

            until

         the rot

     set in

Witth the lust for

          profit 

Taking hold

In the psyche

Of the New World

Nation, and dragged

            it back

       to the old

Ways of being.

And that is all

She wrote

Simply,

   as that spirit

Took over

Again.

         Until now

At the end

Of the entire

       exercise

In the lack of

Communication

             between

             Man

             and

His Creator

Source

Of the real energy

             running

Things.

              Hold on

to your hats.

It's going to be

A bumpy ride

                but

        worth it

                  In 

The End

            for its

Face value.

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P.S. A pertinent article:

from wnd.com: 'Flash!  It's Constitution Day' - Joseph Farah - Sept. 16/17

"Today is Constitution Day. How will you celebrate? How will you mark the occasion?

On Sept. 17, 1787, the Constitutional Convention, meeting in Philadelphia for four months, agreed on the final draft of this special, inspired document and submitted it to the several states for ratification.

That was 227 years ago.

It was ratified June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire approved it as the ninth state. Congress, acting under the Articles of Confederation, declared the Constitution the law of the land March 4, 1789.

By general assent and resolution of the Congress, Sept. 17 has been designated as Constitution Day ever since – designated, but not necessarily acknowledged or observed.

In the 21st century, we celebrate many holidays in America – Independence Day, presidential birthdays, Veterans Day, Memorial Day. Yet, no one even acknowledges Constitution Day anymore. That’s tragic.

America has forgotten the two concepts that made her special as a nation – two unique factors that set her apart from the world from the start.

First, the Founding Fathers wrote a Constitution that strictly limited the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. The idea that Washington had some role in education, redistribution of wealth, setting minimum wage requirements, nationalizing millions of acres of land, taxing income and subsidizing government-approved artists would have been anathema to the men who fought so valiantly for freedom against an overreaching foreign tyranny – if they could have even imagined such abuses.

Secondly, the framers of that Constitution spoke eloquently about the fact that only a moral people – a nation of godly people with common spiritual and social values – were capable of self-government. They could not have envisioned the depths of depravity, licentiousness and vice to which our society has fallen – yet they warned about it.*

Our current debates about social and government policy seem disconnected from these two critical foundations of the American republic. Politicians will never solve the problems facing the country without acknowledging these two essential precepts.

In fact, I’ll go further. Politicians will never solve our problems. Period. The more government tries to do, the worse things get.

And that’s the beauty of the Constitution. It strictly limits what government can do. The trouble is that Americans have forgotten this. They’ve been dumbed-down by government schools and a government-media complex to believe that Uncle Sam is there to solve all their problems – from how much they get paid, to what they spend on health care, to how they should raise their own children. For the Constitution to work, people, politicians and especially judges must pay attention to it.

When people talk about America being an “idea,” what they really mean is that the founding documents of America represented that idea. The best of what America became flowed directly from that idea – a way men and women could live together in liberty.

We honor the flag in America, but not the Constitution. The flag is a mere symbol. The Constitution is the real thing. We should revere it, and, more importantly, live under it.

Why do we salute the flag and not the Constitution? The Constitution is every bit as symbolic as the flag, but it is much more – literally a guidepost to maintaining (or now, perhaps, to recovering) America’s freedom. But it can only serve that function if we as a nation abide by it, pay heed to it, live by its code and its spirit.

Which symbol is really worth dying for? The flag is not my pick. It is just a symbol – but the Constitution is both symbol and substance. And its substance is being desecrated by some of those so piously concerned about the symbolic desecration of the flag.

A few years ago, a public opinion survey found that less than half of American adults would vote for the Constitution if it were on the ballot today. To that, I say, thank God there is no requirement for a referendum on the Constitution. Another poll showed close to half of Americans don’t believe in the basic First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech, assembly, religion and the press.

So, there you have it. The Constitution is being desecrated before our eyes. Skeptics are winning the day. Not even the Constitution holds us together as a people any longer. Maybe, instead of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag in school every day, that time could be better spent reading the Constitution."

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(My comment:)

kibitzer3 • 4 minutes ago (Sept. 16, still)

Excellent summary, Joseph. Thanks for the reminder.

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* One such warning:

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

That was John Adams speaking.  An ancestor of mine, incidentally.

Who knows what all went into my passion for the founding of this nation.  And for its continued wellbeing.  Until it leads humanity to where we need to go.

Pending, as we speak...