We are murdering industrial America, self-reliant America, entrepreneurial America, confident America, proud America. In its place we erect a welfare state, a nanny state, a parental state, a nation of dependent adults. Call it whatever you like. We stumble along, bitterly divided, not so far behind Western Europe. Is this good? If that is what we really want and freely vote for it. No non controversial moral principle forbids us to follow this course. But are we sufficiently aware of the not only economic price that we must inevitably pay? The salient question is why? Was this historically incomparable nation built on parental government principles? Can such a government guarantee greater freedom? Justice? Fairness? Compassion? Equality? Voters have repeatedly answered yes. To all the above questions this book forcefully answers no. The chapters focus on two overarching themes. One, the world, with emphasis on the United States, is in a potential deadly moral crisis as harmful principles and practices displace traditional ones among which many bring equal harm. Second, the book argues that the political solutions that we commonly apply to satisfy our needs must inevitably fail to achieve their purpose simply because our moral dilemma and political problems are not at root political. They cannot be resolved by electing the “right” political party. This book presents a compelling argument that the tiresome squabbling in Congress will never achieve anything constructive until we adopt a radically different view of ourselves as individuals and begin to move our nation in a much healthier direction.

TO THE ITALIAN AND THE RUSSIAN OF 1923, THE GERMAN AND THE APANESE OF 1933, THE CHINESE OF 1953, AND THE AMERICAN OF 2033

As you look about you and see your society crumbling, its founding principles inverted, the words of its morality corrupted, its integrity draining into the sewers; rejoice rather than despair, you are witnessing the awesome presage of a world long in preparation for you. As your nation is engulfed in tragedy, do not look aghast at the devastation and chaos; the world you have awaited so impatiently is at last approaching reality. Do not anguish for your dead friends, hunger for your next meal, or shiver in your lightless home; the terror sweeping all around you is the realization of the long imprisoned brotherhood of mankind blossoming at last.

As the glorious day of liberation unfolds, do not fret about interminable queues for the most trifling necessities, complain that even the smallest decisions that affect the course of your life have become the prerogatives of unreachable committees, or withhold your spontaneity in fearful apprehension lest you let slip a word against your benefactors, or question why they have so suddenly appeared in places vacated by your late and hated exploiters, or wonder at the overnight disappearance of your loved ones. This is the legacy of the left: their long-promised democratic, just and compassionate world unleashed at last. What you see unfolding all about you is their dream, their purpose, their means, their end fulfilled.

Do not cry that you were deceived or that this is not what you had in mind when you sold your soul for a subsidized life. You are not privileged to escape the consequences of your choices. This is the world you have yearned for, worked for, prayed for, voted for. Each vote you gave the left; each time you embraced a new proposal to shift a little responsibility from yourself to the government; each cheer you gave the politician who promised to lift one of your burdens and force it on the backs of the rich; each time you “broadmindedly” contributed however small a support to some social do-gooder dedicated to the destruction of the principles that distinguished your society from the innumerable slave states of history; each public work, tax, subsidy, grant, regulation, fairness doctrine, redistribution, product ban or affirmative action brought this day a notch closer.

This is what they had in mind when they promised you liberation. This is their counterfeit freedom, their equality, their justice, their peace, their passion. You rejected the genuine articles as unfair exploitations of your weakness. You failed to grasp or defend the principle that freedom and individual responsibility are inseparable, that your burdens belong to you and must not be dumped on others, that responsibility for your every thought and action belongs solely to you regardless of your level of competence, and that your prosperity or failure rest solely on your own wits and resources however impoverished.

You left the ideas that shape your world and rule your life in the province of those eager to invert and distort all principles except those that expand their power. You bought the Great Lie that your misery can be laid at the feet of exploiters, and that all belongs to all and shall be distributed fairly to all including genius and folly, diligence and sloth. And you wonder why you now see perpetrators of the Great Lie distributing a much greater share to themselves. You stand agape, bewildered about how the pigs managed to take over the farm.

Bit by bit you surrendered your rights to your liberators in exchange for duplicitous promises to protect you from those who only wanted your money for their idea or product – a transaction you were free to reject. Who will now protect you from your liberators who demand your total unresisting subservience? Are you free to reject that demand? And what do they offer in exchange for your obedience to their rules? Your release from burdensome decisions? Escape from vexing uncertainties? Avoidance of embarrassing comparisons to the more ambitious or able? Did you believe their promises of an easy ride on the backs of the exploiting rich? Or did you buy into that drivel about equality and everything controlled by and for the most holy people. Boy, were you fooled! But not without your cooperation.

Are you now expecting a share of the loot? And have your chosen leaders become your instruments of hatred and revenge against those whose accomplishments have exposed your lack of any? Truly, you have sold your freedom cheap. No wonder your rulers hold you in contempt and will now sneeringly treat you accordingly. You were their instrument to the attainment of power. You will now be cast aside, a useless broken tool ready for the scrap heap. And you will discover what happens when you protest such humiliation and betrayal.

The malignancy you have encouraged to grow all around you is a world not built on compassion, but malice; not freedom, but slavery; not love, but hatred; not peace, but eternal conflict; not justice, but exploitation; not individual self fulfillment, but regimented statism erected to fulfill the nightmares of your rulers; not a better more joyful world, but unending sorrow; not the end of the rule of the privileged, but its perpetuation; not life, but death.

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Excerpt from the book America’s Suicide
by Michael H. Davison
Dapa Publishing, LLC, Copyright 2014