The Integrity Myth

It is time for the majority of Americans to recognize and accept one uncomfortable truth. There is a segment of our nation whose sense of entitlement and whose basic sense of greed is so pervasive that they will never be able to accept the majority of us as fellow Americans. You know who they are. You see them on TV talking about how lazy and despicable we are. They believe that the rest of us are parasites, and that no matter how hard we work, how decent and law abiding we are, no matter how much wealth we produce for them, that we are beneath them and they would never be able to see us as equals. This is not an issue of race, even though many of them try to convince us that it is. But those of us with wisdom understand that this is just a ploy to keep us from focusing on what the true issues are. Its not really an issue of religious beliefs, even though they exploit those differences for the sames reasons that they exploit racial differences, because in the end they believe we are not smart enough to recognize that nothing else matters to them but money and power.

We, the majority, the hard working and dedicated patriots of America must recognize

•  that they have no problem with sacrificing our children by sending them off to fight in foreign lands, often solely for the purpose of making it safer for them to get richer by exploiting those lands. 
• They have no problem with trying in every way possible to limit the rights of as many of us as possible to vote because they believe majority rule is equal to mob rule and that only they deserve to make decisions that impact what happens in America.
•  These people do not want a middle class because they believe the nation will be more stable when everyone other than this ruling class has to spend every working hour focused on survival, and helping to make them richer with our labor. 
• They do not believe the majority need quality educations beyond that necessary for us to be able to do the work they need us to do because they are sure knowledge leads to instability because the more we know about how things work, the more we think our families deserve more than they want to allow us to have and that has a detrimental effect on their profits and sense of stability.

 These people will never identify with you and I, which is why you hear them constantly saying that the government wants their money. They say, the government thinks their money belongs to them. They do not want you to realize that we are the government. The government of this nation will be whatever we allow it to be and this is exactly what this nations founding fathers wanted, for the government to be the way that average people counter the power of the unscrupulous and greedy. They do not want to admit that what they mean is that they do not want to share the great wealth they have acquired as a result of  all the hard work and contributions to this nation we all have made in so many ways over so many generations that made their success possible. They were like us at one time, but the richer some people get, the more they want to separate from the rest of us. Everyone wants to share misery, but beware of those who gain an advantage and become obsessed with exploiting that advantage no matter who it costs. And saddest of all are those who have little and are so totally brainwashed by the greedy that they actually defend them and advocate for them in a the misguided belief that this will somehow allow them to become rich and elite like them.

This is the America Thomas Jefferson worried might be. This is the America George Washington warned us about. Dwight Eisenhower spoke constantly about the need to make sure these people never are allowed to undermine the middle class. Abraham Lincoln went to war to stop the last major insurrection that was the result of this same idea of a "socially conservative America", which is code speak for a nation divided against it self and thereby easy to control.

I pray that all Americans will think about this, and that we will all pledge daily to not allow the aspiring ruling class of America to continue to undermine and bring down this nation. Because the end result will be a violent and terrible end for this nation. There is no other possible way for this to end unless we remember that WE are America, that government exists to protect us and that together we can make government the tool it was intended to be for us to collectively advance the best interests of the people. And that this right on any level of understanding.