Lies, more lies, and damned lies

How many Americans have asked themselves these questions repeatedly over the last 12 months:

• how did America arrive at this place in our history, where we experienced a near meltdown in the financial markets; where 20% of mortgages were in default; where America's schools were failing; where the government owned automobile companies; where real health care reform was needed but a healthcare nightmare was being rammed down our throats; where nearly 10% of Americans are still unemployed; where the private sector is being systematically destroyed by anti-small-business policies? 
• how did we go from the jubilation of the election of 2008 to the overwhelming uncertainty and alarm in which we now find ourselves? 

How did all this happen? Too many assume it's a fluke, it just happened. It's just one of those things that's so unexpected it can't be anticipated. The country had a financial meltdown, no one could have predicted it. Now we're just trying to pull ourselves out of the quicksand. It can't happen again. It's an anomaly, after all.

NOT. EVEN. CLOSE.

It dawned on America by early 2009 that something was afoot in Washington D.C., something not-quite-right. Something detrimental not only to us as individuals but equally as destructive to America. Something so oddly difficult to articulate that many Americans simply turned away, not wanting to give voice to, nor to hear validation of, the growing alarm.

To begin with, there is no accurate, all-encompassing word that describes what Barack Hussein Obama brought to American's highest elected office.

Is he a socialist? Well, sort of ... but not exactly. How about a Marxist? A Maoist? A Statist? Just what kind of -ist is Obama? The expedient answer, looking at his policies and the team that surrounds him, is probably statist. It's certainly the most politically correct answer. Having been forged in the gangster, union-thug-mentality that is the political reality of Chicago, I think Obama is easily a Marxist.

But hear this: in the final analysis, the label used to describe President Obama's policies and agenda does not matter.

What is a matter of grave importance is that his agenda, and the stated agenda of the many radical progressive Lefty's surrounding Obama, is unquestionably antithetical to everything that is America.

The radical progressive Left says - disingenuously - that the U.S. Constitution is merely a set of guidelines, simple suggestions. They say the Constitution was written too long ago to be relevant in the 21st century. Does this remind you of the same argument progressives apply to the Holy Bible as well? It should and you'll see why in a minute.

Progressives' (aka proggies) attitudes toward the Constitution - and the Bible - although laughably juvenile, cannot be dismissed. Their insistent belief, that the Constitution is an outdated guideline, is dangerous to what defines us Americans. It is dangerous to our individual freedom, freedom endowed solely by our Creator. If you want to upset proggies, just say the words: "Only God can bestow human rights, never government."  Then sit back and watch the fireworks. It's fun if you're bored.

The radical progressive Left attempts to portray America's courageous founders as slave-owning, greedy, misogynystic men who cared not a whit for anyone, anything, but their own selfish interests. Diminishing our founders this way, proggies can, by inference alone, diminish the Constitution and all documents created by those brave men who defined and literally created America.