Can't Do America

Can’t Do America

Have you ever gotten yourself into an unpleasant, dangerous or compromised situation, and while struggling to repair your position, reflected on how you managed to get into such an awful mess in the first place? I think we all have experienced a number of these “reality” offerings simply because we are all Standard Issue, Mark 1, Mod 0, Human type persons and while these unpleasant situations may well become a positive lesson-learned opportunity, most of us would just as soon be spared the “hard-knock” lesson that our Parents and Grandparents warned us about with waving fingers and the nodding gray heads for wise emphasis. One thing that is almost always certain about getting into most of these situations, is that the getting there is nearly without fail a slow and meandering process, and not a flash-bang, out of the blue thing that finally propels the uninitiated into an acknowledgement that all is not well. In other words, we almost always have been fully warned by converging events, large and small, about the coming happiness-interruption, if only we are wise enough to recognize the storm-clouds swirling about us for what they are and vigorous enough to make an effective change to prevent misfortune from having its merry day at our tranquil expense. So you ask, “What has all of this got to do with a Can’t Do America? Well if you think about it for a moment or two you will realize that the good old US of A is not a merely a place or thing, it is in reality, an amalgamation of standard issue, Mark 1, Mod 0, Human type persons that has a collective behavior not unlike anyone of its unique Human parts and can get into unpleasant, dangerous or compromised situations with the same ease as you and me. And my fellow Americans, we as a Country, have most definitely meandered into a number of unpleasant, dangerous and compromised situations without the wisdom or vigor to marshal the wherewithal to propel ourselves out of the mess we now find our country in. Just like your Great Aunt Betsy, who told you with bad breath and a weathered hand, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”, that same road to hell for a country can likewise be traveled upon that have been paved with the collective cobble stones of “Good Intentions” and all laid down by a collection of Americans with sweetened breath and manicured hands that have somehow managed to acquired incredible power and persuasion without the necessity of being responsible for what they do. The fact is now obvious that the seemingly good intentions of environmentalists, one-world government advocates, naturalists, and other like “I know what is best for all of us” people and organizations, has so hobbled and muscle-bound this country with their “Good Intentions” that instead of the traditional Can Do America, we have become, for all practical purposes, the Can’t Do America. How on earth could we have conceived, planned and built the 6,636,360 Square Foot Pentagon in only sixteen Months and today we would not even begin the process of an environment impact statement for the project in sixteen months (has the Pentagon building wrecked the environment sans an environmental impact statement)? The situation reminds me of the pathetic “Help me, I’ve fallen and can’t get up” advertisement that can juxtapose a weak and helpless person bound by the infirmities of old age into a clueless and helpless behemoth that can’t get up and going because it is bound by the infirmities of an ever expanding infinity of laws. This has come about because each “Good Intention” faction has learned how to use the power of the money/power grubbing legal and judiciary system, aided and abetted by the ideologues and money grubbers in the fifth estate, to effectively block any action, including those of other “Good Intention” factions, that does not support their particular advocacy. And so all that occurs is that we can’t do this or we can’t do that and all because irresponsible people have somehow obtained the power to stop anything or anyone. Of course all of this can’t do nonsense uses up the precious intellectual and capital treasure of this country that should be used for positive Can Do purposes but instead is utterly wasted in epic and useless battles of such esoteric nonsense that even the reason for the battle is no longer important in the quest for power and advocacy (not unlike the great debate of how many Angles can fit on the head of a pin). And never forget, most of the battles being fought are not necessarily being fought for the purpose stated, for example, the One World Government advocates will enthusiastically support the Environmentalists goals as a vehicle to devise laws and policy that can eventually subjugate a Country’s sovereignty to a global sovereignty under the guise of Environment Protection and therefore satisfy the One World Government goals. Even if I knew how to fix our current Can’t Do malady and could support my remedy with irrefutable logic, legal and Constitutional support, it would do no good because it takes enlightened leadership to effect real change. The self-serving Yahoos who wrap themselves in leadership clothes nowadays in order to further their lust for power and wealth are hardly the giants needed to get us back to Can Do America. But you know what, we are the ones who let this situation happen because a Country is not a place or thing, it is amalgamation of Standard Issue, Mark 1, Mod 0 Human type people and it takes people to made real change.