Diversity and Federal Republics

Last week I got an email, one of those internet things that keep getting passed around to stir up the slumbering masses in this country. It was another perfect example of how easy it is to use fear and prejudice to divide and conquer a nation. The e-mail showed photos of what was purported to be a ruined Detroit City, the “Motor City.” The usual suspects for this catastrophic failure of an American city were the blacks, the Mexicans and this is new…the Muslims. The bottom line message was that the city fell due to white apathy. Whites abandoned the city let it fall prey to…them.


There was nothing in any of the photos to identify the city of Detroit, but there were these depressing photos showing abandoned and deteriorating buildings and factories. If the pictures were of Detroit, I suggest that federal policies over decades by BOTH parties have led to dismal failures in our inner cities. The misuse of taxpayer money on ill-conceived programs with good intentions has led our nation to where we stand today. It should be a warning to other countries as well. Look at Greece and Spain. Their governments have led them to the brink of default with spending far beyond their means and the US is not far behind.

As I see it, it is not the diversity in our country that is leading us to failure and ruin...it is that we all see ourselves as whites, blacks, Mexicans, Muslims and not as ONE people, ONE nation standing together to solve our problems. There are forces that are trying very hard to exploit our nation's diversity and stereotypes for personal gain. They are playing off not just ethnic diversity but political diversity as well...for personal profit and power. If Americans do not wake up and realize that we are all being played...then America, as we know it...is doomed.

We have forgotten what a federal republic is all about? “One nation… indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” (not just the super rich and the politically connected.) Would we rather go back to monarchies and city states where we become subjects of a king or queen or a privileged noble class? Would we rather divide up and fight as little fiefdoms like in the Dark Ages? That's where we are headed as far as I can see. If history teaches us nothing, it teaches us that it repeats itself.

The evolution of this once great country is at stake. We can either come together and work together as a nation for the common good or we can break up into factions and fight amongst ourselves for our own self interests...and die.

We are at the brink and we are running out of time.

Food for THOUGHT…