Paul, no truer words have been written or spoken. The US has become a culture of narcissism, false narratives about self-sufficiency and individualism, and makers vs. takers. It is all bullshit. I have been screaming, seemingly into a void, for the last decade or more about the slide toward authoritarianism/facism based in victimhood. I have been called an alarmist at best and gas lit as seeing things that are not there when they have been in front of our face. As a lapsed historian by first training the warning signs have been in front of us.
I write to you, in this 249th US Independence Day from the Canary Islands in Spain where my wife is from. She is both a Spanish and naturalized US citizen. I worry because if some idiot hears her speaking her native language, she will be a target. My daughter from my late first wife, is mixed with her mother being Trinidadian and herself was a naturalized US citizen. She too is a target because of her skin color and being a young female. My parents are in the process for being approved for Medicaid and which they have paid into their entire lives. They are broke. And yet, their applications are being held up under the flimsiest of excuses (in Florida). The cruelty is that absent such assistance to which they have paid into, they literally cannot afford to live.
I am sure there are many more of us who feel the cruelty and danger personally as I have described. Keep fighting the good fight and I will do the same in my corner of the world.
Thank you for all you do, Paul. You give us like minded defenders of the Constitution hope we can right the ship.
I could hardly be more thankful, for your comments. Between each line, I feel the pain, caution and deep apprehension that I believe, speaks for so many of us. Thank you.
Your personal story, is both inspiring as being representative of what our nation was intended to be, a free exchange of cultures woven into the American story and now, an omnipresent fear felt by millions of Americans with similar stories. A dear friend and professional colleague, whose Spanish wife is waiting in Spain, shares your apprehension, and rightly so. I wish that I could offer more hope to you, my friend and all of the others, living through this nightmare.
I am most humbled, by your final comment. Yes, we will right our ship but at this point, I tragically believe that it will not be without more pain and suffering by far, than we have seen already. Your closing, is what we all need to hear right now. We can do this, so long as people like you, I and tens of millions of Americans, continue to believe in and firmly defending that brilliant document that represents who we are as Americans.
Stand strong and my most heartfelt wishes that you and yours, will remain safe.
Paul, I am honored and humbled by your response. It brings tears to my eyes. You have given me the push and energy needed to keep fighting despite all the challenges. There is so much more to the fight and concerns that I articulated to you.
Working in the energy industry I keep trying to use all levers I have to keep the poor choices and oligarchy at bay. From a governance perspective I keep raising hell. The problem we face is “obeying in advance” all too often to our detriment. It is the same in society at large. I, and my clients, refuse to be silenced and cowed.
We are at an inflection point in history. One the country has only faced in 1861. I foresee and fear a hot civil war. There are too many guns in the wrong hands to keep that from happening. It is only a matter of time. I fear we will be forced to make a choice to fight, as the Ukrainians have, or succumb. We will soon, I fear, be faced with a choice beyond peaceful protest and to take up arms. That day is coming faster than anybody wants. Let us hope we do not cross that Rubicon.
Thank you most kindly Paul. Yes, you and I are in stark, painful agreement regarding a "hot civil war." "Obeying in advance," are the citizens, absent the gene that dominates most honest Americans. Th0se of us who read history, know better. Others under the thumb of oligarchical monopolies, are being forced to obey as well, or be unemployed. Our media landscape is the perfect example. Only unity in regards to our true values, not in support of a party, will save the republic. Folks like you, me and countless others with outspoken voices and postures, are the key. I'm honored to be among the folks like you, who know who we are and offer more than lip-service, to the restoration of our constitutional republic.
Paul, as a fellow patriot, I am writing to wish you a glorious Fourth of July as we celebrate our great nation's Independence Day. As James Madison wrote in the National Gazette in 1792:
“In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example … of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.”
As Jonathan Turley wrote earlier today, "I truly love this holiday because it ideally celebrates what we have in common, rather than what divides us. For all of our faults and failures, we have triumphed over great evils from without and within. The Framers gave us a system that has withstood the test of time and turmoil. It will withstand these days and we will find a course forward as a nation."
I am reminded anew of these words spoken by one of my heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
"And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring."
Indeed, let freedom ring this Independence Day proclaiming liberty throughout the land.
I almost bought your story, until you mentioned the traitor, Jonathon Turley. MLK may be your hero, but your blind support for insurrection, White Christian Nationalism and autocracy, is at ideological opposite ends of the spectrum.
I will celebrate this most uniquely American holiday, by turning my flag on the front of my home, upside down, in defiance of the traitors in the Oval office, the Congress and at the head of every government institution. With your full-throated, decade-long support for MAGA, your prose is disingenuous at best, blatant gaslighting at worst.
Paul, no truer words have been written or spoken. The US has become a culture of narcissism, false narratives about self-sufficiency and individualism, and makers vs. takers. It is all bullshit. I have been screaming, seemingly into a void, for the last decade or more about the slide toward authoritarianism/facism based in victimhood. I have been called an alarmist at best and gas lit as seeing things that are not there when they have been in front of our face. As a lapsed historian by first training the warning signs have been in front of us.
I write to you, in this 249th US Independence Day from the Canary Islands in Spain where my wife is from. She is both a Spanish and naturalized US citizen. I worry because if some idiot hears her speaking her native language, she will be a target. My daughter from my late first wife, is mixed with her mother being Trinidadian and herself was a naturalized US citizen. She too is a target because of her skin color and being a young female. My parents are in the process for being approved for Medicaid and which they have paid into their entire lives. They are broke. And yet, their applications are being held up under the flimsiest of excuses (in Florida). The cruelty is that absent such assistance to which they have paid into, they literally cannot afford to live.
I am sure there are many more of us who feel the cruelty and danger personally as I have described. Keep fighting the good fight and I will do the same in my corner of the world.
Thank you for all you do, Paul. You give us like minded defenders of the Constitution hope we can right the ship.
Paul,
I could hardly be more thankful, for your comments. Between each line, I feel the pain, caution and deep apprehension that I believe, speaks for so many of us. Thank you.
Your personal story, is both inspiring as being representative of what our nation was intended to be, a free exchange of cultures woven into the American story and now, an omnipresent fear felt by millions of Americans with similar stories. A dear friend and professional colleague, whose Spanish wife is waiting in Spain, shares your apprehension, and rightly so. I wish that I could offer more hope to you, my friend and all of the others, living through this nightmare.
I am most humbled, by your final comment. Yes, we will right our ship but at this point, I tragically believe that it will not be without more pain and suffering by far, than we have seen already. Your closing, is what we all need to hear right now. We can do this, so long as people like you, I and tens of millions of Americans, continue to believe in and firmly defending that brilliant document that represents who we are as Americans.
Stand strong and my most heartfelt wishes that you and yours, will remain safe.
My kindest regards,
Paul
Paul, I am honored and humbled by your response. It brings tears to my eyes. You have given me the push and energy needed to keep fighting despite all the challenges. There is so much more to the fight and concerns that I articulated to you.
Working in the energy industry I keep trying to use all levers I have to keep the poor choices and oligarchy at bay. From a governance perspective I keep raising hell. The problem we face is “obeying in advance” all too often to our detriment. It is the same in society at large. I, and my clients, refuse to be silenced and cowed.
We are at an inflection point in history. One the country has only faced in 1861. I foresee and fear a hot civil war. There are too many guns in the wrong hands to keep that from happening. It is only a matter of time. I fear we will be forced to make a choice to fight, as the Ukrainians have, or succumb. We will soon, I fear, be faced with a choice beyond peaceful protest and to take up arms. That day is coming faster than anybody wants. Let us hope we do not cross that Rubicon.
Thank you most kindly Paul. Yes, you and I are in stark, painful agreement regarding a "hot civil war." "Obeying in advance," are the citizens, absent the gene that dominates most honest Americans. Th0se of us who read history, know better. Others under the thumb of oligarchical monopolies, are being forced to obey as well, or be unemployed. Our media landscape is the perfect example. Only unity in regards to our true values, not in support of a party, will save the republic. Folks like you, me and countless others with outspoken voices and postures, are the key. I'm honored to be among the folks like you, who know who we are and offer more than lip-service, to the restoration of our constitutional republic.
Onward to victory over fascism... again
My best for your Holiday.
Paul, as a fellow patriot, I am writing to wish you a glorious Fourth of July as we celebrate our great nation's Independence Day. As James Madison wrote in the National Gazette in 1792:
“In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example … of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.”
As Jonathan Turley wrote earlier today, "I truly love this holiday because it ideally celebrates what we have in common, rather than what divides us. For all of our faults and failures, we have triumphed over great evils from without and within. The Framers gave us a system that has withstood the test of time and turmoil. It will withstand these days and we will find a course forward as a nation."
I am reminded anew of these words spoken by one of my heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
"And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that, let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring."
Indeed, let freedom ring this Independence Day proclaiming liberty throughout the land.
With best regards,
Doc B
I almost bought your story, until you mentioned the traitor, Jonathon Turley. MLK may be your hero, but your blind support for insurrection, White Christian Nationalism and autocracy, is at ideological opposite ends of the spectrum.
I will celebrate this most uniquely American holiday, by turning my flag on the front of my home, upside down, in defiance of the traitors in the Oval office, the Congress and at the head of every government institution. With your full-throated, decade-long support for MAGA, your prose is disingenuous at best, blatant gaslighting at worst.