The Death of the American Ideal

On November fourth, the Year of our Lord two thousand and eight, the majority of the American electorate consciously chose to reject the vision of the founders for a constitutionally limited government whose sole responsibility was the protection of the rights we had been endowed with by our creator.

Instead, we the people elected a man and a party that believes what you earn does not belong to you and if you think it does, you are selfish and deluded. We chose leaders who openly advocate using the power of the government to restrict the opposition’s right to free speech and everyone’s right to keep and bear arms.

The majority of the people did not care that the winning party engaged in electoral practices like phony registrations, cheating and intimidation, activities accepted in third world dictatorships, not in the supposedly civilized West. To the majority of Americans, it did not matter that their president elect absorbed the rantings of an anti-American hate monger for twenty years, launched his political career in the home of a domestic terrorist or heaped praise on a man who thought it a good idea to kill as many Jews as possible.

We have chosen a man who voted for infanticide and has been endorsed by terroists and thugs.

We did not care that our president elect promised to bankrupt an American industry and cause our own electricity bills to skyrocket.

We have chosen a president who believes unabashedly in the Marxist formula of the redistribution of wealth and has promised to use the legislature and the courts to accomplish that goal.

We have empowered a party that thinks it a good idea to emasculate the military at a time when our enemies are seeking to destroy us.

We have elected a man who believes our foundational document is fatally flawed because its primary focus is on prohibiting the government from doing things to us instead of empowering the government to do things to and for us. In this election the majority of the American people consciously choose a man and a party who reject the principles of the founders of our great country and openly embrace European socialism.

We the people have put the final nails in the coffin of American exceptionalism. We have formally rejected liberty and responsibility and have chosen the warm embrace of the nanny state. Will president Barack Hussain Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid be able to accomplish all they desire? I hope not. But the majority of the people in our great country believe they should and respect for the limiting power of our founding documents is gone.

Today the majority are celebrating at the funeral of the American ideal. God help us all.

Patrick Samuels www.patricksamuels.com Author of “Memoirs of a Former American”