THE PEOPLE AS “LEMMINGS” OVER THE CLIFF

       It is not difficult to discern that a majority of Americans are being swept along by the Republican/”Tea Party” Bandwagon toward the November Mid-Term Elections.  It is now apparent that most of the People wish to follow the Republican lead because, truly: a.) they do not understand the nature of their rights and how they are “being played”; or b.) the governmental effects of their naive “acting out.”

             Most do not remember or understand: i.) the unique foundational history of America and the absolute protection of the right we have as a “People” to govern ourselves to the eternal exclusion of any despotic form of rule–as set forth in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; ii.) our recently shared history with a despotic band of usurpers who “sold” the people upon a “unitary executive” form of government, i.e., nothing more than a term-limited form of totalitarian rule created by the Republican Party under the aegis of George W. Bush–who, as did Fifteenth Century European monarchs, cast us as the invaders in a “pre-emptive” war brought only for his personal reasons, having nothing to do with Islamic extremism or the protection of the People; or, iii.) that it was the Republican fiscal policies to benefit only the very rich that have almost bankrupt the Nation and much of Western Civilization, as well as causing unemployment to exceed “non-Great Depression” all-time highs.

            For at least the last forty years I have lamented the portent of the ever-worsening state of America’s education system and the fact that graduation from high school and even from college have, in and of themselves, increasingly come to mean little.  Every academic discipline has been “dumbed down” by every state department of education to meet ill-conceived, artificial and self-defeating Federal regulations.  Since the mid-1960’s we have, except for a small bright, diligent minority, been placing wave after wave of graduates on the streets who understand little more than life “from day to day.”  And this mass ignorance portends the most evil of ends, for, since the People have proved themselves incapable of or unwilling to rule themselves, they have determined, as if children in a tantrum, to simply turn the Country over to “anyone but those who hold office now!”

            It is easy to see that the reason for the “lemming rush” over the cliff is not rational.  The People will scream as they leap: i.) “there are no jobs;” ii.) “no one can get a loan to buy a house now…;” and iii.) “that Arab (”N Word”) feller wants to pull our soldiers out of the wars in the Middle East–and, by Damn–we are Americans!  We don’t ever give up!”  (Not recalling that it was the fiscal and “unitary executive” totalitarian policies of the Bush Administration that caused each of these realities.)

            And neither have the People thought of what is at the bottom of the cliff–the consequence of their tantrum:  Huge boulders…continually doused by crushing waves of the People’s life blood, each wave crashing each creature into the boulders, draining the last vestiges of individual rights of the People to choose their own leaders and achieve their individual dreams.  Ranting and cheering Republicans are off shore cheering as we are all reduced to the “mortally wounded” lemmings that we, in our stupidity, actually sought to be, i.e., with no voice, with no will, with no rights….left alive only to do the wishes of the very rich “one-per centers” whom the Republican usurpers have always served and whom we will now also always serve.

            That is how the will and the rights of the People are destroyed.

Don Switzer

Rogers, Arkansas

September 9, 2010