Posted by
Ethan S. on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:30:13 PM
I'm relatively young and impressionable. I haven't served my country in uniform, and will probably never have that honor. But this is my take on our current predicament. I look at our slowing economy, and then at the Democratic rheotoric. The Democrats hate this country the way that it is fashionable when one is thirteen to hate one's parents. They will say, or do anything, to try to push on boundaries. And never have anything good to say about the country. The issue is that the people of this country, for the most part, do not have the will or pride to say "No!, you have reached a boundary. Time to stop now." We see whole generations of men (myself included), who have not been taught to be men. And parents with no understanding of role-modeling. This is not to say that my parents were not good role models. My parents were excellent role models and I owe them my life. What I am saying is that society and schools do not teach men to be men. An overly simple example of this is that in a book store there is a whole section of Women's Heath or Women's Studies. But there is none for men. Men are never taught how to be men by society, and when parent role modeling fails (in the case of drug use and physical/verbal abuse), it makes for very adult looking boys. In the same way women are not taught to be women and having the freedom to choose career and women's lib seems to have turned into anti-mother anti-wife sentiments in some circles.
We live in a society that eschews the mere thought of nationalism. What happened to our pride? What happened to our love, or eros, for this country? It has, like drops of water on stone, been eroded away by decades of adolescent rebellion acted out by liberal adults who never grew up to be men and women. We need some good ol fashioned national pep rallies. We need to show the liberals that hating one's country will not make it any stronger, and supply them with reasons to be proud to be American. How we do this, I really do not know, but I trust in God and the American spirit to breath pride back into our hurting country. Give the people pride, and our country will be just fine.