Fear in New Amerika on Her Birthday

Happy Birthday America, for many Americans this is a day of celebration, of rest and to remember that our country only 250 years old is still a baby. Those who say well America is becoming a sh*t hole especially in the world of politics as the President of the United States has made it clear he hates American’s, has no interest in their wellbeing, especially those who are middle to low income America, but the high income earners, the real successes of America get the gift that keeps on giving permanently in the “Big Beautiful Bill” .

Some may say I am not being patriotic, that I must be some woke dem who hates America. But I don’t hate America, because frankly I don’t hate anyone or anything, although we ALL have the ability to hate because we are human. There are many patriots fighting for the soul of America and unfortunately America is on the lifeline to Oligarchy and Kleptocracy and for those who need a definition: which is defined as a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to appropriate the wealth of their nation, typically by embezzling or misappropriating government funds. Sound familiar, it should be because that is exactly what is happening to our country as we speak.

I have written about this in my other piece : https://josephmeyercreatives.com/2020/09/26/amerika-democracy-in-name-only/

Correction, on that I don’t hate anything, I have grown to hate Politics, although I understand the importance of it. I hate the divisiveness of slinging crap at each other, never truly willing to work together, some would say well, it’s the Democratics who refuse to work with DJT and for good reason, as how can anyone follow a 34 time conviction felon, a rapist , a cheat and who knows what else he had done in the shadows and the evil he has participated it in. NO man is perfect of course and although the people sharply put Biden away for being a man whose facilities were declining, I would have preferred him on account that there were people who would have been there to protect our democracy.

As a follower of Robert Reich, and for those who don’t know who that is former secretary of labor and professor of public policy. Writing on Substack on What Patriotism Requires and I encourage you read what he has to say :

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/what-patriotism-requires?r=2zlejn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Here is a snippet of what he wrote:

Friends,

Today I want to talk about the real meaning of patriotism.

It’s the exact opposite of the version peddled by Trump and his white Christian nationalists — that the nation is losing its whiteness or its dominant religion, that too many foreigners are crossing our borders, that men are competing in women’s sports or children are using school bathrooms inconsistent with their sex at birth, or that teachers are not celebrating the nation’s history.

To the contrary:

True patriots don’t fuel racist, religious, or ethnic divisions.

Patriots aren’t homophobic or sexist.

They aren’t blind to social injustices, whether ongoing or embedded in American history. They don’t ban books or prevent teaching about the sins of the nation’s past.

They don’t abduct hard-working people and put them in prison camps in the Everglades.

They don’t rob the poor to reward the rich. They don’t cut Medicaid and food stamps, so the wealthiest Americans get a tax cut.

Unfortunately, this is not new to many of us in our great country, who frankly is stained with blood from our forefathers and the blood shed going back to incredible spotty past with native Americans, the true Americans and creators of our nation which is my opinion. I am certainty not trying to omit our forefathers who created our belief systems, our foundations from the British, from God and the creation of the declaration of independence.

We have become a model for the countries but unfortunately we are now following the rulebook for other countries like Russia, Hungary and dictators around the world who imprisoned their citizens for speaking out, for protesting peacefully and even those who are minding their own business trying to survive to support their families, a GOD given right, but maybe no longer in America as our country is beginning to resemble Nazi Germany and concentration camps, which we call detention centers, but who cares right those people are criminals, they are violent pests on society to sponge off hard working Americans sucking the life out of our lives here, LIES of course.’

I ask this is the America the founders envisioned, I doubt it, this is the new Amerika and as I have and many have warned we are at inflection point in time, that our country and democracy may not survive, because frankly she’s still a baby, some would even say a teenager, but like a child or even a teenager she is still growing , changing, evolving but it depends on those people, parents to raise her properly, care for her, teach her and not abuse, take advantage and corrupt her. It all matters about those so-called parents doing the right thing, something unfortunately we do not have.

There are still those fighting for America each waking moment who believe in the true meaning of patriotism, but unfortunately there are many who have become brainwashed to what Patriotism is, who have fallen in line to a man, a cult leader who cares nothing for you, but only that you kiss the end, bend a knee to him and those who don’t will pay.

Strangely What is happening today would be written as fiction, but all too real as Orwell has written about the dangers in 1984 and not to toot my own horn, I have written similarly about this type of situation in my book “The Stricken” which I encourage you to purchase today.

Buckle up America, and although many of those in world like Iran wish Death to America, I would never, because frankly we are doing a good job ourselves killing America from within much like the greatest superpower that once existed Rome, took at what happened to them, considered one of the greatest societies to exist gone over greed, debauchery and corruption, sounds familiar.

Happy Birthday America, until your next one, hopefully we can celebrate next year!