Cover Up
Deborah Venable
02/17/11
The
biggest cover up in American history is going on right out in the open under
everyone’s nose. When did everyone
decide that it is perfectly normal and even okay to cover up ignorance? From the news media to the government
schools, it is hard to know just how deep the disease of ignorance has bored
into our society, but it is there none-the-less, and it is eating away at
common sense and decency.
Of
course everyone is not infected because some are naturally immune to the
ignorance of which I speak. If you
received and retained a good dose of common sense and decency training sometime
in your life, then the ignorance won’t get you – but you will certainly suffer
from ridicule directed at you from the ignorant. You may ask yourself each and every day, “How do I stay sane in
an insane world?” That has become the
choice – either ignorance or a strain on sanity.
As
a member in good standing of the “senior citizen class”, raised with common
sense and decency, allow me to bypass the tedious explanation it would take to
translate a message to those who do not share my immunity, and speak directly
to those who do. You are not
alone.
To
say that America has never faced the kind of character assassination that is
now underway in the rest of the world would be a stretch that I am unwilling to
make. We have always had enemies in the
world – people who hate us – just as we have always had homegrown enemies of
our basic philosophies. I will say,
though, that we have never had the amount of ignorance and the ongoing attempt
to cover up that ignorance that is present today. If I can just add another adjective to that, let me say that both
the ignorance and the cover up are criminal.
Therefore the character of those involved, especially in the cover up,
deserves assassination.
Too
many people raised in this country believe that morality thrives in political
correctness, when exactly the opposite is true. Too many people raised in this country believe that this country
was founded as a democracy, and that the best thing for the rest of the world
is to export that same democracy to any country toiling under a
dictatorship. (Just watch the news if
you don’t believe this one – as the media fawns over recent events in Egypt.) Too many people raised in this country
believe that America’s strength can best be displayed in the philosophy (more
of a religion) of multiculturalism. Too
many people raised in this country were taught to fear individualism and seek
out collectivism as the answer to all their problems. Finally, too many people raised in this country can’t accurately
define the meaning of anything in this paragraph.
Those
of us, who have the aforementioned immunity, are duty bound, therefore, to keep
our minds and bodies as healthy as we can for as long as we can until common
sense and decency can be interwoven into the fabric of our once free society
and the disease of ignorance and the shameful cover up it has spawned are duly
recognized and eradicated.
I
am tired of the insanity that spews out the various media outlets that wouldn’t
pass the smell test for truth under the most loosely defined guidelines. I’m tired of politicians that measure
everything they say by available polling data instead of an intellect that
should be able to, at the very least, alert them to lies passing their
lips. I’m tired of history being
written on an ill wind blowing away from an abundance of truth to the contrary.
Let
me just say that there are those on both sides of the aisle who would be at a
total loss were it up to them to build America back in its former image, for
they never learned about or especially identified with that image. While they are perfectly willing to live
“high on the hog” they evidently have no concept of what it took to secure that
place at the table, and they willingly commit to throwing away that opportunity
for everyone else. That – my dear
readers – is the epitome of ignorance, as well as a total lack of common sense
and decency.
As
I have said before, the Democrat Party, including all those self-described
Liberal Independents, (there, I even capitalized for them) are a total lost
cause. The Republican Party and many of
the Libertarian and self described Conservative Independents, (see how fair and
balanced I am) are floundering under false illusions of their own philosophies,
which is a very dangerous thing right now.
One only has to look at the recent CPAC conference to recognize the
truth in this statement. Libertarians
are trying to convince more and more Republicans that they are really not
Republicans because they hold too many Libertarian views. Conservatives are participating in back
biting quarrels about fiscal vs. social issues ruling the umbrella under which
Conservatives should gather. This only
succeeds in feeding the ignorance and the cover up.
We
“old timers” who have been voting for the better part of the last half century
or longer may have rocked from side to side or stood rock solid on one side or
the other, but we did so knowing, at least, what we believed. Nowadays, folks can vote that have no idea
what they believe, or they sit it out thinking nothing matters anyway! And they hail this as Democracy? No, in the words of my good friend, Mr.
Veritas, this is Idiocracy!
This
is perhaps the most dangerous political environment we have ever lived
through. Whether or not we even make it
to the next “poll call” in 2012 is questionable at best. If we do, I can almost guarantee that the
economy and the culture will still be in shambles. People will be a lot hungrier for “change” than they were in
2008. We will have more foreign enemies
than ever before in our history. Our
defenses will have been compromised to such an extent that our vulnerability
will be sticking out like a sore thumb.
Our internal cancer will have grown, and the media will be in overdrive
to cover all these things up.
Am
I being overly pessimistic?
You
tell me!
Please
revisit Separating Church and State, written back in 2008 during the last
presidential election cycle. It
contains a speech that everyone needs to read and think about. Where have the Zell Millers from all the
political labels gone?