Is America Losing Its Heart And Soul?
Patriotism, religious faith, having children and other priorities that helped define the national character for generations are declining in importance to Americans.
I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country. - Nathan Hale's last words before being hung by the British as a spy for the Continental Army September 22, 1776.
Nathan Hale:
Born on June 6, 1755 in Coventry, Connecticut.
Attended Yale College and became a teacher.
When the War for Independence broke out, he accepted a commission as a lieutenant in the Continental Army.
He served at Boston and then New York. Washington desperately needed intelligence on British troop movement around Manhattan and Long Island. Hale was part of Knowlton's Rangers, the first organized American intelligence service of America, led by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Knowlton. Hale volunteered on September 8, 1776, to go behind enemy lines knowing fully well that an act of spying was immediately punishable by death.
Side note. Hale was not cut out to be a spy. He volunteered for a dangerous mission because he loved his country.
Hale spoke with a friend, Captain William Hull, about his mission before he left. According to Hull, he tried to talk Hale out of carrying out the mission and facing what he considered a guaranteed death.
To be a good spy, you need to be a good liar – a skill Hale likely hadn’t perfected. Hale also Couldn’t help but carry himself like a soldier and did not easily blend into a crowd. He had a powder burn on his cheek, a most unusual and suspicious scar for a schoolteacher.
Hull didn't believe Hale was right for the mission, writing that it was "not in his character; his nature was too frank and open to deceit and disguise, and he was incapable of acting a part equally to his feelings and habits.”
He was captured by the British on Sept. 21, 1776 and immediately admitted that he was spying for General Washington.
Accounts say he requested a Bible and was denied. His request for a clergyman also denied.
He was hanged on Sept. 22, 1776 at 21 with his famous statement being his last words.
Last hours of Nathan Hale:
Hale spent his final hours with General Howe's chief engineer, Captain John Montresor, deciphering his notes and drawings. Reflecting on that morning, Montresor wrote, "He was calm, and bore himself with gentle dignity, the consciousness of rectitude and high intentions."
Hale asked for two things that morning – quill and paper – to write two letters: one to His brother Enoch, and Another to his commanding officer Thomas Knowlton. Later that morning, Hale walked to an apple orchard somewhere around present-day sixty-sixth Street and third avenue in New York City. One witness noted that Hale “walked with the grace and stateliness of a man carrying out the will of his people, the will of his God."
“America the Beautiful” third verse:
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine! - Katherine Lee Bates
Getting inside the heads of the Founders:
They were risking death by challenging the authority of Britain, the country that thought it actually OWNED them!
They realized the country, the government and the document to control the government , the Constitution, they were creating, would only work with a virtuous people. They also assumed a certain, basic obligation on the part of those free citizens to the higher power from which their rights and freedoms derived.
We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams
If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great Security. - Samuel Adams
The warning from Benjamin Franklin:
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” ―Benjamin Franklin
From The Wall Street Journal:
America Pulls Back From Values That Once Defined It, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds:
Patriotism, religious faith, having children and other priorities that helped define the national character for generations are receding in importance to Americans, a new Wall Street Journal-NORC poll finds.
Some 38% of respondents said patriotism was very important to them, and 39% said religion was very important. That was down sharply from when the Journal first asked the question in 1998, when 70% deemed patriotism to be very important, and 62% said so of religion.
The share of Americans who say that having children, involvement in their community and hard work are very important values has also fallen. Tolerance for others, deemed very important by 80% of Americans as recently as four years ago, has fallen to 58% since then.
Aside from money, all age groups, including seniors, attached far less importance to these priorities and values than when pollsters asked about them in 1998 and 2019. But younger Americans in particular place low importance on these values, many of which were central to the lives of their parents.
Patriotism is declining as a civic value in tandem with rising individualism, a sense of entitlement among many people and a decline in community involvement, possibly because of people focusing on their own racial or cultural backgrounds rather than what Americans have in common.
America will only be destroyed from within:
History has proven again and again, when Americans stood together, no one nation or group of nations will defeat us!
When Americans are at each other’s throats, disaster, like the Civil War occurs, lasting from 1861 to 1865, with an estimated 620,000 casualties both sides total.
The ingenious Marxist plan to destroy America:
In a previous post I wrote about Yuri Bezmenov, a Soviet journalist trained by the KGB who defected and wrote a book about the Soviet plan to destroy America, under the pen name Tomas Schuman, titled “Love Letter to America”. It has four basis parts:
Demoralization. A plan expected to take 15 -20 years because it would take that long to propagandize a generation. Accomplished with media and teachers that are socialists and Marxists themselves. Or in more recent years, having been flat out bought and paid for, like China spending millions to infiltrate U.S. education. Eliminating masculinity and now womanhood with the transgender agenda.
Destabilization. It takes two-to-five-years to change a country’s foreign relations, defense, and economy. Capitulation and undoing international agreements that benefited the U.S. The new “woke” military stressing proper pronouns. China being allowed to fly spy balloons over sensitive U.S. military installations then the huge increase of Chinese Nationals crossing our southern border. Climate change is the greatest enemy of the U.S. Massively spending and printing money to inflate the economy and debase the dollar. More and more Americans living paycheck to paycheck every month.
Crisis. Possibly six weeks of chaos as a climatic turning point. Lockdowns, social distancing, wearing masks to “stop the spread.” Cities actually being burnt to the ground and people killed.
Normalization. This stage is where the propaganda and disinformation are said to be the way it is from now on. Lockdowns, masks, shots every 3-6 months the “new normal”. Burning cities, killing people is “social justice”. The FBI raiding private safety deposit boxes.
ATF agents going to a home and questioning a legal gun purchase.
The FBI “auditing” concealed permit applications in possession of Missouri Sheriffs.
From American President John F. Kennedy to AOC:
From John F. Kennedy’s 1961 Inaugural Address:
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.
To AOC:
Petulant child in an adult body elected to Congress whining on the floor of the House that she needs her $17,000 student loan paid off by taxpayers already paying her too much at $174,000!
If JFK were alive today and saw what his Democrat party has become, he would think that Khrushchev and the Soviet Union had won the Cold War!
From women's rights to the erasure of women. The transgender psychosis:
Where are the feminists?
Equal pay for men and women.
“Breaking the glass ceiling” in corporate America, women getting executive positions.
Women in other countries are second class citizens because they have few if any rights.
Yet, these same women are actually not just second-class citizens in present day America. They are actually being erased as human beings by men dressing up and pretending to be women!
Men pretending to be women participating in women's sports is an insult to women.
Men pretending to be women entering locker rooms is an invasion of privacy.
It is apparently now forbidden to even define what a woman is!
And apparently, they are okay with that!
I'm no biologist, but I have taken biology classes and studied anatomy. A woman is a human being with two X chromosomes that has the physical capability to create and give birth to another human being. Anything else is nonsense and fantasy.
We are to believe that trans people are harmless and being physically assaulted and/or killed by conservatives, religious extremists, white supremisists, etc.
The last four school shooters:
April 6, 2023: Trans male arrested for planning Colorado school shooting, had anti-Trump manifesto.
William Whitworth, who goes by Lily, faces charges of attempted murder after making threats against schools in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Do you want to rethink that?
The demonic behavior of people on the street:
No other logical way to explain it unless Americans have become this evil:
People getting pushed in front of subway trains.
People, particularly white or Asian, being punched in the face and knocked out on city streets.
Senator Rand Paul's staffer brutally stabbed leaving a Washington restaurant.
The suspect was just released from prison that day!
Cash App creator Bob Lee, 43, randomly stabbed to death in San Francisco.
Worse yet, bystanders ignore the bleeding man’s pleas for help as he died.
Milwaukee Twelve year old murders adult neighbor who wouldn't sell him his guns.
Government created as the servant of the people is now the master:
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.” ― John Adams
The Declaration of Independence states that when instituting a righteousness government you are:
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
One of the functions of government is to promote order and public safety. So how is it we have publicly elected officials promoting violence with no consequences?
So called Attorney General Garland:
The job of the Attorney General of the United States is to enforce the laws of the United States! Because of Attorney General Garland’s failure to enforce the law about intimidating judges, we had a would be assassin practically on the doorstep of Supreme Court Justice Kavenaugh! If the potential assassin had not called 911 and gave his location, he could have succeeded! U.S. Marshals were under orders not to arrest protesters violating federal law, despite the would be assassin approaching Kavenaugh’s house with a suitcase!
Convoluted Maryland state logic:
Maryland proposed a bill to prevent anyone under 25 from being charged with felony murder.
This has become a topic since Governor Wes Moore picked Victor Schiraldi to run the Juvenile Justice Service. Schiraldi says no one under 21 should be introduced to the justice system because the brain is not fully developed.
Opponents of HB 1180, like Republican Delegate Susan McComas, say Democrats only use mental capacity when it comes to soft-on-crime policies.
“Proponents of the bill say that the human brain is not fully formed in the frontal lobes until age 25. But yet, we’re doing other things in the general assembly, letting children vote earlier and earlier, letting them get hormone-inducing drugs to change their sex,” said McComas.
Yet concerning abortion, “reproductive services”, venerial disease, substance abuse….
(Article 20-102 of the Maryland Annotated Code)
"a minor has the same capacity as an adult to consent to treatment for or advice about drug abuse, alcoholism, venereal disease, pregnancy, and contraception other than sterilization." This means minors can get the following services without parental knowledge or consent:
Pregnancy testing
Birth control
Exams
Testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
The “rule of law” has become “the rule of equity”:
Everyone is equal under the law, regardless of race, sex or national origin. That is why America was admired since it's creation! Now we have the unequal rule of equity! A defendant is not judged by evidence or the law. Equity demands the following considerations:
If the defendant is not white they are actually the victim.
If the defendant had a difficult childhood.
Any number of other ridiculous considerations.
Defendants get probation with no penalty for the stolen gun they used.
Soros-elected District Attorneys mocking the rule of law:
While President Trump was busy naming rule of law judges, George Soros and his leftist cohorts were busy planting leftist District Attorneys in major American cities:
Alvin Bragg actually ran on the campaign promise of convicting Donald Trump!
Bragg releases 52% of violent criminals in Manhattan by reducing felonies to misdemeanors while converting alleged misdemeanors of Donald Trump into felonies.
Bragg brings murder charges against man who shot a thief who shot him first.
This is the same Soros DA who charged bodega worker Jose Alba with murder after he shot and killed a shoplifter who stabbed him.
Congress has a fund to pay off sexual harassment claimants:
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) told MSNBC that about $15 million dollars have been doled out to alleged victims of harassment from congressional members over the past decade.
While we're busy tearing ourselves apart:
OPEC has “suddenly decided” to cut oil production by 2,000,000 barrels a day!
Which will immediately drive up energy prices.
There is a full court press in the world to replace the U.S. dollar as the world currency that has sped up in just the last few weeks. The value of the dollar depends on this.
'Petrodollar' at risk as TotalEnergies sells LNG to China in yuan.
Despite the yuan making inroads in global trade, currently it only accounts for 2.7 percent of the market, while the US dollar's share is 41 percent.
China, Brazil ditch US dollar for trade:
The deal would enable China, the main U.S. economic rival, and Brazil, the biggest economy in Latin America, to conduct their massive trade and financial transactions directly, exchanging yuan and reals, the Brazilian currency, instead of going through the US dollar.
India and Malaysia dump dollar. Will settle trade in Indian rupee:
Indian foreign ministry made the announcement on Saturday and follows the directive of the country’s central bank—the Reserve Bank of India—which has been pushing for the settlement of international trade in Indian currency.
What is BRICS?
India, China and Brazil, along with Russia and South Africa make up BRICS.
According to reports quoting Russian lawmaker Alexander Babakov, the BRICS nations are in the process of creating a new medium for payments - established on a strategy that "does not depend on the dollar or euro".
The new currency, unlike the dollar, will be backed by gold and other rare earth metals.
A number of additional nations, including Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Iran, Indonesia, Turkey and Egypt, have reportedly expressed interest in joining the alliance.
The upcoming BRICS summit is set for August 22nd in South Africa.
By the way, China has stopped buying our debt!
Based on our deficit of over $34 trillion, if the dollar is replaced, the dollar won't be worth papering a bird cage with! Interestingly, this is the President of Kenya recently “giving friendly advice to dump dollars” since “the markets are going to be very different in a few weeks.”
Does he know something we should be paying attention to? Apparently we did not listen to the advice of Thomas Jefferson:
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs. - Thomas Jefferson
Will America find the heart and soul to survive what is ahead of us?
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” ―Benjamin Franklin
Lost its soul... I am afraid it has. Brilliant post David!
Wow, a lot in this post to digest. Just before opening this, I contemplated a similar essay that would be a compendium of the crazy. You nailed it. Time to get ready. https://frederickrsmith.substack.com/p/dont-get-ready-be-ready